Ortenburg county
The Ortenburgers were a medieval count family in Carinthia , who were presumably descended from the Bavarian noble family Hirschberg . The male line died out in 1418, the county fell to the Counts of Cilli .
history
The reasons for their establishment in Carinthia are unknown, as well as how they came into possession there. There is also no document that reports on the construction of the Ortenburg .
The founder of the family was Adalbert I († August 1096). He was probably a younger son of Count Hartwig II. At the lower Amper (Haus Hirschberg) and Aviza, daughter of Count Altmann von Kühbach. After winning he was the son of Adalbert III. von Walde Sachsenkam (urk. 1025–1066) ∞ Itiperch (daughter of Friedrich II., Vogt of Regensburg ). In 1072 Adalbert was Vogt of the Freising Church and its vice cathedral in Carinthia. In a tithe contract, he recorded the limits of the Freising church property in the Oberland . He was married to Bertha († after August 1096), daughter of the Bavarian Count Meginhard IV of Reichersbeuern . The marriage contract was signed by 57 noble and another 27 non-noble witnesses. The family seat - west of Spittal an der Drau , probably built around 1091 under Adalbert, is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1093. Adalbert calls himself in it for the first time "von Ortenburg" (Adelbertus de Hortenburc). The castle was on the shady side, south of the Drau (under the influence of the Patriarchs of Aquileia ), opposite the Hohenburg Castle of Lurn . From here you could see the traffic route on the Lurnfeld well. It is not known how large Adalbert owned. It cannot have been significant, for the Oberland was in the hands of the Counts of Lurn .
When they died out in 1135, their huge land holdings were divided as follows: The Count of Görz received the area west of Möllbrücke , the Ortenburger the area east of it down to Rennstein (suburb of Villach ) and the Archdiocese of Salzburg received Pusarnitz , Sachsenburg , Gmünd and Stable in Mölltal . The Ortenburgers already belonged to the counts at this time . The Ortenburgers, who also owned large estates in Upper Carniola , Lower Carniola and Weisskrain (e.g. Krupa Castle ), played a major role in the settlement of Gottscheerland from 1320/30 - largely under the suzerainty of the Patriarchs of Aquileia .
The family died out in 1418 with the death of Count Friedrich III. in the male line. The inheritance fell to the Counts of Cilli.
Bavarian Ortenberger
The Bavarian Ortenburgers (originally Ortenbergers) have only one name in common with the Carinthian Ortenburgers; her ancestor is Rapoto I. von Ortenburg from the Spanheim family .
After the Counts of Cilli died out in 1456, who had inherited the Carinthian Ortenburgers in 1422, the Bavarian Ortenbergers tried to win the Carinthian County, but in vain, relying on (albeit unproven) common ancestors (see Ortenburger Erbstreit (Carinthia) ).
The name Grafschaft Ortenburg was still used by Emperor Friedrich III. , which was able to prevail in the dispute over the Cillier legacy, was used in 1478 for a separate principality of Upper Carinthia.
Significant family members
- Adalbert I. von Ortenburg († after August 1096)
- Otto I. Count of Ortenburg († 1147)
- Otto II. Count von Ortenburg († probably 1197 on the crusade )
- Hermann von Ortenburg (* 1147; † 1200), counter-bishop of Gurk
- Ulrich von Ortenburg (* around 1188; † 1253), Bishop of Gurk,
- Hermann II. Count von Ortenburg († May 19, 1256), had Sommeregg Castle built in 1237
- Friedrich I. Count of Ortenburg († March 28, 1304)
- Meinhard I. Count of Ortenburg († around 1332)
- Otto V. Count of Ortenburg († 1342)
- Albrecht I, Count of Ortenburg († 1336)
- Euphemia Countess of Ortenburg
- Hermann III. Count of Ortenburg († 1337)
- Meinhard II. Count of Ortenburg († 1338)
- Anna Countess of Ortenburg
- Klara Countess of Ortenburg
- Otto VI. Count of Ortenburg († March 28, 1374)
- Friedrich III. Count of Ortenburg († April 28, 1418)
literature
- Karlmann Tangl , The Counts of Ortenburg in Carinthia. First division from 1058 to 1256. in: Archive for customers of Austrian historical sources 30/1, Vienna 1863, pp. 203–352.
- Ders., The Counts of Ortenburg in Carinthia. Second division from 1256 to 1343. in: Archive for customer Austrian historical sources 36, Vienna 1866, pp. 1–184.
- Camillo Trotter, On the question of the origin of the Carinthian Counts of Ortenburg , in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 31 (1910), p. 501 f.
- Ders., On the descent of Friedrich, the alleged progenitor of the Carinthian Counts of Ortenburg , in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 30 (1909), pp. 611–616.
- Erich Petschauer, The Gottscheers ' Book of the Century , Vienna 1980.
- Marija Wakounig, The possessions of the Counts of Ortenburg in Krain (1202–1377) , diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 1982.
- This., Studies on the Ortenburgers. The Ortenburg colonization of the Gottschee , state examination work at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Vienna 1983.
- This., Aquileia, Venice and the Empire. The politics of Sigmund of Luxemburg in the southeast with special consideration of the imperial vicariate of Frederick IV of Ortenburg. Dissertation University of Vienna, Vienna 1985.
- Friedrich Hausmann , A previously unknown work by Michael Gothard Christalnick on the history of Carinthia and the Counts of Ortenburg , in: Carinthia I 179, Klagenfurt 1989, pp. 187-274.
- Evelin Trinker, The Counts of Ortenburg. 1070-1418. A Carinthian noble family in the history of the south-eastern Alps , diploma thesis University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt 1989.
- Therese Meyer, Die Ortenburger , in: Traces of European History. Spittal 800, 1191-1991, Spittal an der Drau 1991, pp. 46-75.
- Christian Lackner , Die Siegel der Graf von Ortenburg , in: Traces of European history. Spittal 800, 1191-1991, Spittal an der Drau 1991, pp. 76-81.
- Ders., On the history of the Counts of Ortenburg in Carinthia and Krain , in: Carinthia I 181, Klagenfurt 1991, pp. 181–201.
- Therese Meyer; Kurt Karpf, extension of the rulership in the south-eastern Alps using the example of a Bavarian aristocratic group Investigation of the Freising Vizedom Adalbert, the origin of the Eurasbergs in Bavaria, the Counts of Tyrol and the Counts of Ortenburg in Carinthia. in: Journal for Bavarian State History 63, Munich 2000, pp. 491-539.
- Anton Kreuzer , Carinthian. Biographical sketches. 11-20 Century. Kreuzer Buch, Klagenfurt 2002, ISBN 3-85391-195-1 , p. 26 f.