Engelbert (Carinthia)

Engelbert (Engelbert II.) († April 13, 1141 in the Seeon Abbey ) from the Spanheimer family was Margrave of Istria (and Carniola?) (1103–1124 / 1134) and of Verona and Duke of Carinthia (1123 / 24–1135 ).

Live and act

Engelbert was a younger son of Count Engelbert I and Hedwig, from a noble family from Friuli.

Through his marriage to his heir Uta (* around 1085; † February 9, 1150), daughter of the former Passau burgrave Ulrich and Adelheid von Lechsgemünd , who was previously married to Markwart von Marquartstein until his death (probably 1085), he acquired large Properties southwest of Passau , in the Rottal and Isengau . Engelbert created the county of Kraiburg-Marquartstein from these possessions and became Vogt zu Baumburg . Around the year 1100 he built a fortified castle ( Burg Kraiburg ) on the strategically favorable hill above the town of Kraiburg , which was the center of this county.

In 1091 Engelbert brought monks from Hirsau on behalf of his father to settle the newly built house monastery of St. Paul , in 1099 he became its governor . In 1100 he was given two Trixen castles by Gurk's counter-bishop Berthold , and in 1106 Markt Friesach .

In 1108 Engelbert was raised to Margrave of Istria by Heinrich V as the successor to Burkhard from Moosburg. The margraviate was to be owned by Spanheim until 1173. This enfeoffment laid the foundation for the rich and extensive estates in neighboring Carniola. The increased importance of the Spanheimers can also be seen in this, since the emperor, in contrast to his father Heinrich IV , who had removed Engelbert I from the county in the Pustertal , wooed the mighty Spanheimers; it seems successful, because Engelbert II soon found himself in the entourage of Henry V and took part in his coronation on April 13, 1111.

On September 23, 1122 the investiture controversy between the emperor and the pope was settled by the Worms Concordat . Engelbert II and his brother Hartwig I , Bishop of Regensburg, took part in the ceremony as witnesses.

After the death of his brother Heinrich , who died on December 14, 1123, Engelbert succeeded him as Duke of Carinthia. For this reason he divided his estates among his sons and gave them most of the titles. In 1135 Engelbert II renounced the office of Duke and Emperor Lothar III. enfeoffed his son Ulrich I. Engelbert then entered the Benedictine monastery Seeon in Chiemgau . There he died as a monk in 1141 and was buried there.

Unlike his father, he was a loyal Salier supporter, with his brothers sharp opponents of the Salzburg archbishops and Gurker and Bamberg bishops and often argued with the Patriarchs of Aquileia .

In Kraiburg am Inn today Graf-Engelbert-Strasse is named after him and his son Engelbert III. named.

family

Engelbert was married to Uta (* around 1085 - † 9 February 1150), daughter of Count Ulrich von Passau († 1099) and Adelheid von Lechsgemünd († between 1104/1105 and no later than 1111/1112)

Children:

• Ulrich I († 1144), Duke of Carinthia
• Engelbert III. († 1173), Margrave of Istria (1124-1171), Margrave of Tuscia
• Heinrich († 1169), Bishop of Troyes (1145–1169)
• Rapoto I († 1186), Count of Ortenburg
• Adelheid († around 1178), Abbess of Göss
• Hartwig II. († 1164), Bishop of Regensburg (1155–1164)
• Mathilde († 1160/61), ⚭ 1123 Theobald IV. , Count of Champagne-Blois († 1152)

literature

• Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their branch lines. In: East Bavarian border marks. Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde. Vol. 36, 1994, ISSN  0078-6845 , pp. 9-62.
• Heinz Dopsch : The founders came from the Rhine. The Spanheimers as donors of St. Paul. In: Johannes Grabmayer, Günther Hödl (ed.): Treasury of Carinthia. State exhibition St. Paul 1991. 900 years of the Benedictine monastery. Klagenfurt 1991, pp. 43-67.
• Eberhard zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Part 1: The ducal house in Carinthia. Rückert, Vilshofen 1931.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the marriage of Ulrich von Passau with Adelheid von Lechsgemünd and their daughter Uta see p. 160 In: Richard Loibl : Der Herrschaftsraum der Grafen von Vornbach and their successors (= Historischer Atlas von Bayern, Altbayern, series II, booklet 5 ), Munich 1997 (pp. 149-164).
2. ↑ Description of the street names of Kraiburg am Inn ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Engelbert in the CERL Thesaurus

predecessor	Office	successor
	Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein 1108–1124	Engelbert III.
Burkhard von Moosburg	Margrave of Istria 1108–1124	Engelbert III.
Henry IV.	Duke of Carinthia 1123–1135	Ulrich I.
Henry IV.	Margrave of Verona 1123–1135	Ulrich I.