Engelbert III. (Spanheim)

Engelbert III. (* before 1124; † October 6, 1173 ), from the Spanheim family , was born the second oldest of six children. His parents were the later Duke of Carinthia , Margrave Engelbert II of Istria , and Countess Uta von Passau from the house of the Diepoldinger Rapotonen .

Live and act

Kraiburg am Inn (1721)

Marquartstein Castle 1700

In 1124 Engelbert's father became Duke of Carinthia . This then gave him the margraviate of Istria and the Bavarian county of Kraiburg . However, he only used the title of Margrave of Istria occasionally. Mainly he carried the title of Margrave of Kraiburg or Margrave of Marquartstein , which were properties from his mother's house in southeastern Upper Bavaria, where he mainly stayed.

In 1135 Engelbert took on the council in Pisa as envoy of Emperor Lothar III. part, with the request of the emperor to stand by the pope. There he was enfeoffed by Pope Innocent II with the Margraviate of Tuscia . Engelbert only stayed there for a short time: until around the middle of 1136.

In 1140 he made some donations to church institutions before a planned pilgrimage to Jerusalem in Chiemgau .

Engelbert III. wanted in 1147 the call of Pope Eugen III. follow to the second crusade to the “promised land”. However, it then appears that he never made his journey to Jerusalem. It can still be documented in Bavaria.

In 1156 Engelbert took part in the Reichstag in Regensburg. There he appeared, together with his brothers, Duke Heinrich V of Carinthia and Bishop Hadwig of Regensburg, as a witness in the document of Emperor Frederick I , in which the previous margraviate of Austria was elevated to an independent duchy.

Margrave Engelbert III. was married to Mathilde, daughter of Count Berengar I von Sulzbach , since 1140 . She died in 1165. There were no children from this marriage. Since Engelbert did not marry again, he died childless in 1173. Engelbert's possessions were largely divided up in the Spanheimers' house. His brother Rapoto I , Count von Ortenburg , and later his son Palatine Rapoto II acquired large areas in Upper Bavaria around the county of Kraiburg , the headquarters of these possessions were Kraiburg and Marquartstein . The margraviate of Istria was lost to his family, however, it was given to Berthold III by the emperor . awarded from the house of the Counts of Andechs .

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

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.
• Eberhard zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. 2 parts. Rückert, Vilshofen 1931-1932;
  • Part 1: The ducal house in Carinthia. 1931;
  • Part 2: The Count's House in Bavaria. 1932.

Remarks

1. ↑ J. Buehl: Historical Notes on the Parish and Hofmark Söllhuben . In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History , Volume 5, Munich 1843, p. 160 ( online ).
2. ↑ Description of the street names of Kraiburg am Inn ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Engelbert II.	Margrave of Istria 1124–1173	Berthold III.
Konrad von Schiere	Margrave of Tuscany 1135–1136	Henry the Proud
Engelbert II.	Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein 1124–1173	Rapoto I.