Engelbert I. (Gorizia)

Coat of arms of the Albertine line, Counts of Gorizia, in the Ingeram Codex , 1459

Engelbert I († around December 14, 1122/23 ) comes from the beginnings of the Meinhardiner dynasty. He was Count Palatine of Bavaria , Vogt of Millstatt and older brother of Count Meinhard I of Gorizia. His mother was probably Luitgard, a daughter of the founders of the Millstatt Benedictine Abbey (foundation approx. 1070/77): Count Palatine Aribo II of Bavaria and his wife Luitgard from the Sieghardinger clan and his brother Boto. On March 27, 1122 Pope Calixt II mentioned that Millstatt was built by the ancestors / parents ("a suis parentibus") of Count Palatine Engelbert (I). The brothers' father was probably Meginhard III, Count in Lurngau. The leading names of the Görzer, Meinhard and Engelbert, unknown among the Aribones , were more common among the Sieghardingers. Engelbert I and Meinhard I von Görz are only mentioned once together as brothers in a document from Patriarch Ulrich von Aquileia for the Beligna monastery (around 1120/21). Since Engelbert was over 15 years older, it is also assumed that Meinhard I was a half-brother from a second marriage of Meginhard III. is. An unequivocal descent of the two brothers is not certain to this day. In 1206 Engelbert is named as the owner of Moosburg in Carinthia. Engelbert I probably inherited the dignity of the Bavarian Count Palatine from the Aribones (his grandfather Aribo II). Since the title of Count Palatinate is not mentioned in any source on Engelbert with a territorial reference, Christof Paulus' 2007 investigations came to the cautious conclusion that Engelbert I was "quite likely to have been Count Palatine in Bavaria". On March 27, 1122, Pope Calixt II took the monks of the Millstatt Monastery under his protection after Count Palatine Engelbert had given it to the Roman Church. Pope Calixt II still names him Count Palatinate, although Otto IV von Wittelsbach appears as the Bavarian Count Palatine for the first time in a donation from Emperor Heinrich V on March 25, 1121. Around 1137, his nephew Engelbert II. Von Görz is recorded as Vogt of the Millstatt Monastery. Count Palatine Engelbert I probably died in 1122/23. In the Admont necrology it is noted on December 13th, in Millstatt on December 14th and in Seeon on December 15th. A marriage or legitimate children of Count Palatine Engelbert I are not known. The progenitor of all later Counts of Gorizia is therefore Count Meinhard I. von Gorizia. An undated note in the traditional code of the Michaelbeuren Benedictine Abbey, which refers to an illegitimate daughter of "palatinus comes Engelbertus" with a concubine, caused uncertainty and was dated to approx. 1145 by Willibald Hauthaler in the Salzburg document book. Wiesflecker therefore overwritten the document requests for Engelbert II. Von Gorizia with the title in question (Pfalz-) Graf Engelbert II. The note, however, contains two legal acts that are significantly different in time and the illegitimate daughter is most likely to be assigned to Count Palatine Engelbert I. It would also be unusual if Count Engelbert II. Von Görz, who documents from 1132 to around 1189, suddenly appeared in isolation in a single source around 1145 as Count Palatine.

literature

• Wiesflecker, Hermann: Die Regesten der Grafen von Görz und Tirol, Pfalzgrafen in Kärnten, Volume I, Innsbruck 1949, No. 149 p. 40- No. 181, p. 50 and No. 211, p. 59.
• Jedelhauser, Philipp: 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. 278–341, see pp. 322–328 and pp. 341, (family table of the Counts of Görz annotated according to sources).
• Dopsch, Heinz, Meyer, Therese: From Bavaria to Friuli. On the origins of the Counts of Görz and their beginnings in Carinthia and Friuli, Carniola and Istria, in: Journal for Bavarian State History, Volume 65, Munich 2002, pp. 293–370, see pp. 307–331 and pp. 343–346.

Web links

• Engelbert at genealogie-mittelalter.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Meginhard	Count of Gorizia 1090–1122	Meinhard I.
Rapoto V. of Bavaria	Count Palatine of Bavaria 1099–1122	Otto IV of Scheyern-Wittelsbach