Ernst (Austria)

Margrave Ernst (named here Ernst d. Straig ) wounded in the Battle of the Unstrut. ( Babenberger family tree , around 1490, Klosterneuburg Abbey)

Margravine Mechthild, wife Margrave Ernst des Strengen. (Babenberg family tree, Klosterneuburg Abbey)

Ernst , called the Brave , (* around 1027 - 10 June 1075 ) was Margrave of Austria from 1055 to 1075 .

He followed his father Adalbert and united the Bohemian Mark with the Hungarian Mark and the Mark Austria. The colonization of the Waldviertel by the Kuenringer began at that time . At the beginning of the investiture controversy , he was on the side of Henry IV and fell as his henchman in the battle of Homburg an der Unstrut .

Marriage and offspring

In his first marriage he married Adelheid († 1071) in 1060, the daughter of Margrave Dedis II (also Dedo) of Meissen from the Wettin family . He had the following children with her:

• Luitpold II (* 1050, † October 12, 1095), Margrave of Austria 1075-1095, ∞ Itha (from Formbach- Ratelnberg), widow to Haderich (from Schwarzenburg)?
• Justizia († between 1120/22), ∞ Count Otto II. (III.) Von Wolfratshausen
• Adalbert von Pernegg , Count von Bogen

In his second marriage in 1072 he married a Suanhild († 1120), daughter of Count Sighard VII of Hungary and granddaughter of Count Palatine Hartwig II of Bavaria on her mother's side . This marriage remained childless.

literature

• Karl Lechner:  Seriously. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 618 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Max Büdinger:  Seriously . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 293 f.

Web links

Commons : Ernst (Austria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ernst (Austria) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Ernst the Brave in the database of the state's memory of the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )