Diepold (Ortenburg)

Diepold († August 1285 ) the fourth and youngest son of Count Heinrich I von Ortenburg and Richgard von Hohenburg. Diepold came from the house of the Ortenburgers , a Lower Bavarian dynasty.

Live and act

Even at a young age, Diepold had to fear his stepbrother Heinrich II . He tried his whole life to get his stepbrothers Diepold, Gebhard and Rapoto IV under his control and to eliminate them. This situation was triggered by his father's marriage to Diepold's mother, which led to his falling out with his first son.

In 1238, Heinrich I gave Murach Castle and property to manage to his three sons from his second marriage . From then on they called themselves Counts of Ortenburg and Counts of Murach.

After the death of his stepbrother in 1257, the rest of the remaining county fell to his older brother Gebhard. In the course of time, the brothers jointly sold their properties in what is now Upper Palatinate. The reason may have been the great financial difficulties that the long flight brought with it, as well as the generous donations from his deceased stepbrother to the church, which wanted to prevent his brothers from accessing the property. In 1272 Diepold, Gebhard and Rapoto IV. Jointly sold the county of Murach to the Bavarian Duke Ludwig II. Thus, the Ortenburg county shrank to about the size of the Ortenburg market before the municipal reform of 1972.

Very little is known about Diepold's rest of life. He only appears as a witness to his brothers in documents. Since he can no longer be documented after 1285, it is assumed that he died around this time. His possessions fell to his brother Rapoto IV.

Today Diepoldstrasse in Oberviechtach is named after him.

progeny

Diepold was not married and died childless.

literature

• Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, No. 36, Passau 1994 (p. 9 -62).
• Ders .: Archives of the Counts of Ortenburg. Documents of the family and county of Ortenburg (in Tambach and Munich) Volume 1: 1142–1400 (= Bavarian archive inventories 42), Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.
• Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts 'entire house of Ortenburg - Part 2: The counts' house in Bavaria. , Vilshofen 1932.
• Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria - memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 , Landshut 1863 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Ferdinand von Huschberg : History of the ducal and countial general house of Ortenburg: edited from the sources , Sulzbach 1828 ( digitized ).

Web links

• Root list on Genealogy.euweb.cz