Gebhard (Ortenburg)

Gebhard († around 1275 ) was the eldest son of Count Heinrich I from his second marriage to Richgard Margravine von Hohenburg. He came from the Bavarian dynasty of the Ortenburgers . After the death of his half-brother Heinrich II , he became the incumbent Count of Ortenburg.

Live and act

Little is known about Gebhard's childhood; only that he fell out early with his stepbrother Heinrich II . The trigger was the second marriage of his father Heinrich I von Ortenburg to Richgard von Hohenburg. When she gave birth to further sons, including Gebhard, Heinrich II feared more and more for his inheritance and fell out with his father. In 1238, Heinrich I only made a donation to his three younger sons and his wife. In it, the brothers Gebhard, Diepold and Rapoto IV and their mother Richgard von Hohenburg received the county of Murach in the Upper Palatinate. Since then, the three brothers ruled this county together.

Before Heinrich II. Gebhard had to flee again and again with his brothers because he was persecuting them. For this reason, the Bavarian Duke Ludwig II intervened and occupied the Ortenburg estates in Lower Bavaria . A large part of these possessions were lost through gifts from Henry and through the greed of the duke. The remaining part of the county of Ortenburg , which was the size of the Ortenburg market before the municipal reform of 1972, fell to Gebhard after Heinrich's death in 1257. Together with his two brothers, he also administered this small county.

The Ortenburg house was in dire straits as a result of the brothers' dispute, so that in 1271 the three brothers jointly sold their property in the Upper Palatinate for 675 pounds of Passau pfennigs. A year later, Diepold and Rapoto IV sold the goods around Murach Castle to Duke Ludwig II of Upper Bavaria. The Ortenburgers were now only Counts of Ortenburg.

progeny

Gebhard was not married and died childless. His inheritance went to his brother Rapoto IV.

literature

• Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, No. 36, Passau 1994 (p. 9 -62).
• Ders .: Archives of the Counts of Ortenburg. Documents of the family and county of Ortenburg (in Tambach and Munich) Volume 1: 1142–1400 (= Bavarian archive inventories 42), Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.
• Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts 'entire house of Ortenburg - Part 2: The counts' house in Bavaria. , Vilshofen 1932.
• Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria - memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 , Landshut 1863 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Ferdinand von Huschberg : History of the ducal and countial general house of Ortenburg: edited from the sources , Sulzbach 1828 ( digitized ).

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• genealogy

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry II	Count of Ortenburg 1257–1275	Rapoto IV.
Heinrich I.	Count of Murach 1238–1272	Ludwig II.