Heinrich I. (Gorizia)

Coat of arms of the Counts of Gorizia, in the Ingeram Codex , 1459

Heinrich I of Gorizia († October 10/11, 1148/1149) was Count of Gorizia .

Life

His parents were Meinhard I. von Görz and Elisabeth (Ellisa) von Schwarzenburg, daughter of Count Botho von Schwarzenburg (Bavaria) and his wife Petrissa. Heinrich I appears for the first time in 1139, together with his father Meinhard I, in a document from the Patriarch Pilgrim of Aquileia. After the death of his father around 1142 he took over the rule together with his brother Count Engelbert II . Heinrich was last mentioned in a document in 1147 as Vogt of Aquileia . Heinrich was probably unmarried as there is no evidence of a wife or children. In the contract of Ramuscello between his brother Engelbert II of Gorizia and the Patriarch of Aquileia of April 21, 1150 he is mentioned as deceased. Heinrich died in 1148/1149, according to the Aquileia Book of the Dead on 10/11. October. His brother, Count Engelbert II of Gorizia, continued to rule after him.

literature

• Jedelhauser Philipp, The descent of Bishop Bruno von Brixen, Count of Kirchberg (ILLER) with an excursus on Countess Mathilde von Andechs, wife of Count Engelbert III. von Görz and family table of the Counts of Görz, in: Adler, Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik, Volume 28, Issue 6/7, Vienna April / September 2016, pp. 277–340. (Family table of the Counts of Görz annotated according to sources) .
• Härtel Reinhard, Görz und die Görzer im Hochmittelalter, in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 110th Volume, Issue 1–2, Vienna, Munich 2002, p. 47f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Meinhard I of Gorizia	Count of Gorizia 1142–1148 / 1149	Engelbert II. (Gorizia)