Berthold III. (Andechs)
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 .
Live and act
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 .
Further offices and titles
- Count of Plassenburg
- Count of Andechs
- Count von Stein ( Kamnik ) in Carniola
- Vogt of Benediktbeuern
- Count in Radenzgau
- Graf on the upper Isar
- Graf in the Bavarian Augstgau
- Vogt of Tegernsee
- Count on the lower Inn
- Count in Huosigau
- Count of Dießen / Wolfratshausen
- Graf in the Norital
- Graf in the Puster Valley
- Vogt of Brixen (Hochstift)
- Vogt of Vornbach / Formbach
- Count of Neuburg
- Vogt of Langheim
- Vogt of Neustift / Brixen
- Aquileian fiefdom in Carniola (Landgrave)
- Margrave on the Drau (?)
- Vogt of Dießen
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:
- Berthold IV. († 1204)
- Sophie († 1218), ⚭ Poppo VI. († 1191), Count of Henneberg
- Kunigunde († after 1207), ⚭ Eberhard III., Count of Eberstein
- NNw, ⚭ Ompud, Chief Count of Szolnok
- Mechthild (Mathilde) († after 1193/1206)
- ⚭ Engelbert III. († 1220), Count of Gorizia
Second marriage children:
- Poppo († 1245), Bishop of Bamberg (deposed 1239–1242)
- Bertha , Abbess of the Gerbstedt Monastery (born after 1276, mentioned 1216/17, 1249)
See also
Web links
- Berthold V., Count of Andechs Family of the Counts of Andechs and Diessen in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
literature
- Edmund Freiherr von Oefele: Berthold III., Count of Andechs, Plassenburg, Margrave of Istria . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 514-516.
- Heinrich Appelt: Berthold III., Count of Andechs, Plassenburg, Margrave of Istria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 151 ( digitized version ).
- Philipp Jedelhauser: The descent of Bishop Bruno von Brixen, Count of Kirchberg (Iller) with an excursus on Countess Mathilde von Andechs, wife of Count Engelbert III. von Görz and family table of the Counts of Görz, in: Adler, Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik, Volume 28, Issue 6–7, Vienna April / September 2016, pp. 277–341, see pp. 291–293, p. 301 –320 and family table p. 322 (data on Mechthild, Bertha and Poppo von Andechs as well as marriage v. Mechthild, sources on wife Hedwig von Berthold III. See note 119 p. 304).
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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 |