Berthold (Bavaria)

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Berthold von Bayern (around 900; † November 23, 947 ) from the Luitpoldinger family was the younger son of Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria and, as the successor to Duke Eberhard from 938 to 947, Duke of Bavaria .

Berthold was born around 900 and has been a count in Carinthia since 926; in 927 he was granted ducal rights there by King Heinrich I.

After Otto I broke the treaty of 921 and Duke Eberhard was dismissed in autumn 938, Otto I appointed Berthold, Duke Arnulf I's younger brother , Duke of Bavaria. Before that, Berthold had to renounce the exercise of the important right to be appointed bishop and perhaps also the administration of the imperial property in Bavaria. In doing so, he did not refuse Otto's policy of pushing back the special contractual position that Bavaria had achieved under Duke Arnulf. A planned marriage with Otto's sister Gerberga or her daughter Hadwig did not materialize. Instead, Berthold married the Bavarian noblewoman Biletrud, founder of the Bergen monastery near Neuburg an der Donau. In 943 he defeated the Hungarians at Wels and thus repelled the Hungarian invasions for a while. The Christianization of Carantania (today's Styria ) also goes back to a large extent to Berthold.

Although Otto found a support for his reign in Berthold, after Berthold's death in 947 it was not his son, Heinrich (III) , who was enfeoffed with the duchy, but Otto's brother, Heinrich , who married Judith , a daughter of Duke Arnulf, in 937 . Berthold's son was enfeoffed with the Duchy of Carinthia and for a short time with Bavaria under Otto II .

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predecessor Office successor
Eberhard Duke of Bavaria
938–947 		Heinrich I.
personal data
SURNAME Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthold of Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH around 900
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 947