Engelbert II. (Gorizia)

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

Count Engelbert II of Gorizia († January 13/16 approx. 1189) came from the Meinhardin family .

biography

His parents were Count Meinhard I. von Görz and Elisabeth (Ellisa) von Schwarzenburg, daughter of Count Botho von Schwarzenburg (Bavaria) and his wife Petrissa. Engelbert was first mentioned in May 1132 as Count von Eberstein (Carinthia). Approx. In 1137 he appeared as Vogt of the Millstatt Benedictine Abbey. He was Vogt of the Church of Aquileia and, according to a document from around 1146–1161, also Vogt of the Benedictine monastery of S. Maria there. His wife was Adelheid von (Dachau) -Valley, daughter of Count Otto I. von Dachau-Valley , a sideline of the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach. Adelheid is mentioned in a document around 1157 and around the beginning of 1177, the affiliation to the Valley house is only passed down through chronicles. The couple had two sons, Meinhard II and Engelbert III. from Gorizia . After the death of his father Meinhard I around 1142, he ruled together with his brother Count Heinrich I of Gorizia , who worked more in the south of the domain. After Heinrich's death (Oct. 1148/49) he continued the rule alone. He obviously abused his bailiff vis-à-vis the Church of Aquileia under Patriarch Pilgrim. There are reports of raids and devastation in the area of ​​the patriarchy. On a legal day set by the patriarch for these attacks, he was attacked and arrested by Engelbert. In the face of such audacity, the surrounding nobles and counts intervened and put the Gorizia in their place. In the Treaty of Ramuscello of April 21, 1150, Engelbert had to pay extensive damages to the patriarchate, admit further legacies in the event of death without an heir and swear an oath of allegiance to the patriarch. Count Engelbert II appears for the last time alive on September 5, 1186, possibly together with his son Meinhard II. 1188 in a document from the Patriarch of Aquileia. He died around 1189, according to entries in several books of the dead around 13/16. January. The two sons continued the rule after his death. Count Engelbert II of Gorizia is sometimes mistakenly called Count Palatine. So the documentary gestures for Engelbert II at Wiesflecker are overwritten with (Pfalz-) Graf. This can be traced back to an undated note in the tradition code of the Michaelbeuren Abbey, which refers to a illegitimate daughter of palatinus comes Engelbertus with a concubine and was dated to approx. 1145 by Willibald Hauthaler in the Salzburg document book. The note, however, contains two legal acts at different times, and the illegitimate daughter is most likely to be attributed to Count Palatine Engelbert I. It would also be unusual if Count Engelbert II of Görz, who documents from 1132 to approx. 1189, suddenly appeared in isolation in a single source around 1145 as Count Palatine.

literature

• 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: Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik, Volume 28, Issue 6–7, Vienna 2016, pp. 277–340. (With family table of the Counts of Görz commented on from sources), see p. 292, p. 322, p. 330–333, for the erroneous title of Count Palatine (in Hauthaler and Wiesflecker) see p. 341, death 13./16. Jan. approx. 1189, see p. 327f.
• Reinhard Härtel: Görz and the Görzer im Hochmittelalter, in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 110th Volume, Issue 1–2, Vienna / Munich 2002, see p. 21, p. 48–51.
• Hermann Wiesflecker: The Regesta of the Counts of Görz and Tirol, Count Palatine of Carinthia, Volume I, Innsbruck 1949, No. 188, p. 53 (Engelbert von Eberstein 1132), No. 230, p. 63 (Ramuscello, 1150), No. 294 - necrology entries April 1st - should be incorrect.

predecessor	Office	successor
Count Meinhard I of Gorizia	Count of Görz 1132 - around 1189 (1132 as Count von Eberstein)	Engelbert III.
Bertold III. from Andechs	Margrave of Istria around 1188 - around 1189	vacant