Berthold III. (Andechs)

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Berthold III. ( Berthold IV. , Berthold V. ) (* around 1110/15; † December 14, 1188 ) from the house of the Counts of Andechs was Margrave of Istria and Carniola .

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He was the second son of Count Berthold II († 1151) from his first marriage with Sophie of Istria († 1132), daughter of Margrave Poppo II of Istria-Carniola († 1098/1103) from the House of Weimar-Orlamünde .

By acquiring extensive possessions, rights and inheritances, he was able to rise within the nobility and also in imperial politics. He controlled u. a. the important north-south connections to Italy and, as a loyal Staufer follower, was a regular companion of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa .

In 1157 the Wolfratshausen line of the Dießen house died out with Heinrich II and Berthold inherited it.

1158 he could after the death of Ekbert III. von Formbach-Pitten in an inheritance dispute with the Styrian Margrave Ottokar III. enforce to the extent that he obtained the counties of Neuburg and Schärding on the lower Inn and Windberg ; the county of Pitten went to the Styrian.

In 1165 he was enfeoffed by his brother Otto , Bishop of Brixen , with the county rights in the Nori and Pustertal valleys and thus controlled the Brenner route . Furthermore, Otto gave him the bailiffs of Brixen and Neustift .

In the 1170s, Berthold bought land south of the Inn from Wilten Abbey , connected it with his own land of Hötting with a bridge and founded the market, or later city of Innsbruck, near Ambras , the original rulership of the Andechs in the Inn Valley .

In 1173 he received the margraviate of Istria-Carniola from Barbarossa as an imperial fief. He followed the Spanheim Engelbert III. after, his mother's cousin. ( Engelbert I von Spanheim was their grandfather, Richardis / Richgardis his daughter, who was married to Poppo II of Istria, see above.)

In 1180, when Otto von Wittelsbach was enfeoffed with the Duchy of Bavaria after the fall of Heinrich the Lion , Berthold's son was appointed Duke of Meranien and the Andechs rose to the rank of imperial prince .

Berthold III. died in 1188 and is buried in the Diessen monastery .

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family

Berthold's first wife was called Hedwig († July 16, 1176), only the first name is certain. In the literature it is sometimes assumed that it is Hedwig von Dachau - Wittelsbach , the daughter of Otto V. von Scheyern . In his second marriage, Berthold was with Liutgarde, daughter of the Danish king Sven III. († 1157) married.

Children from first marriage:

⚭ Engelbert III. († 1220), Count of Gorizia

Second marriage children:

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SURNAME Berthold III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthold IV .; Berthold V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of Istria-Carniola
DATE OF BIRTH around 1110
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1188