Heilika von Lengenfeld

Seal of Heilika von Lengenfeld

Heilika von Lengenfeld (also Eilika ; * around 1103; † September 14, 1170 in Lengenfeld ; buried in Ensdorf Abbey ) was Count Palatine of Bavaria by marriage.

She was one of the two daughters of the noble free (or count) Friedrich III. von Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenohe , who died in 1112/1119 without a male heir. Her mother, allegedly Heilika von Schwaben , was seen as the daughter of Duke Friedrich I of Swabia . However, this thesis is based on misinterpretations and falsifications by the historian Hansmartin Decker-Hauff and can no longer be upheld.

She married Count Otto V. von Scheyern († 1156), who was Count Palatine of Bavaria and who in 1124 moved the Palatine residence from Castle Scheyern to Castle Wittelsbach near Aichach .

Their son Otto "der Rotkopf" (around 1117, † 1183) followed his father as Count Otto VIII of Scheyern, as Count Otto V of Wittelsbach, and as Count Palatine Otto VI. from Bavaria. After the fall of Henry the Lion in 1180, he received the Duchy of Bavaria from Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and then called himself Duke Otto I of Bavaria. With him began the rule of the Wittelsbacher in Bavaria, which lasted until 1918.

Her daughter Hedwig (* around 1117; † 16 July 1174) married around 1135 the later Duke of Merania and Margrave of Istria-Carniola, Berthold V (* around 1112; † 14 December 1188); since 1151 Count von Andechs , since 1157 also Count von Dießen-Wolfratshausen.

Heilika's sister Heilwig was married to Count Gebhard I von Leuchtenberg († 1146), who inherited the rule of Waldeck through this marriage .

proof

^ Ludwig Brandl (1968): Heimat Burglengenfeld. History of a city. Burglengenfeld: City of Burglengenfeld, p. 45.
^ Tobias Weller: The marriage policy of the German high nobility in the 12th century. Cologne 2004, pp. 29–34, 211–220; Tobias Weller: On the way to the “Hohenstaufen house”. On the descent, relationship and connubium of the early Hohenstaufen. In: Hubertus Seibert , Jürgen Dendorfer (Ed.): Counts, dukes, kings. The rise of the Hohenstaufen and the empire (1079–1152). Ostfildern 2005, pp. 41–63, here pp. 56–63 ( online ).

Web links

Heilika von Lengenfeld at genealogie-mittelalter.de

personal data
SURNAME	Heilika von Lengenfeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Countess Palatine of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1103
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pettendorf
DATE OF DEATH	September 14, 1170
Place of death	Burglengenfeld

[1] Ludwig Brandl (1968): Heimat Burglengenfeld. History of a city. Burglengenfeld: City of Burglengenfeld, p. 45.

[2] Tobias Weller: The marriage policy of the German high nobility in the 12th century. Cologne 2004, pp. 29–34, 211–220; Tobias Weller: On the way to the “Hohenstaufen house”. On the descent, relationship and connubium of the early Hohenstaufen. In: Hubertus Seibert , Jürgen Dendorfer (Ed.): Counts, dukes, kings. The rise of the Hohenstaufen and the empire (1079–1152). Ostfildern 2005, pp. 41–63, here pp. 56–63 ( online ).