Heinrich I. (Ortenburg)

Heinrich I († February 15, 1241 ) was the youngest child of Count Rapoto I von Ortenburg and came from the house of the Ortenburgers .

Live and act

Heinrich I and his brother Palatine Rapoto II of Bavaria were very well known thanks to the high position of the family in the empire. Both were knighted together with the children of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa at the Reichstag in Mainz in 1184 .

In 1188, together with his brother, parts of the extensive inheritance of the Counts of Sulzbach, who died out in the male line, fell to him. After her father Rapoto I died in 1186, the estate was then divided. Heinrich I received the possessions in the Nordgau with Murach near Oberviechtach as well as the county in Wolfachtal with seat in Ortenburg including some possessions in the Rottal. The possessions in the Rottachgau including the counties of Kraiburg -Marquartstein, Rottal and Chiemgau went to his older brother. This division of the estate is crucial, as it was final and the goods were lost after the line of the Palatine Counts died out in 1248.

In 1206 Heinrich I founded the city of Vilshofen on the Danube together with the Bishop of Passau .

In 1217 he allegedly took part in the Fifth Crusade to Palestine. Since 1218 he appears as Vogt of St. Nikola and from 1222 as Vogt of the Passau cathedral chapter.

A document from Emperor Frederick II from 1229, in which he was granted the right to operate mines, is particularly important for Heinrich I. This is so important because it was a transfer of regalia and he thus obtained de facto partial independence. This is considered the nucleus for the later imperial immediacy of the County of Ortenburg.

Heinrich's possessions expanded considerably in 1223 and 1232 when Diepold von Leuchtenberg , the Lords von Höhnberg and Heinrich von Altendorf (from the house of the Counts of Leonberg) pledged rich possessions to him. These included the Leuchtenberg fortress , possessions in Höchstadt an der Aisch and Pfaffenhofen Castle in the Nordgau, as well as possessions around Mühlbach, Neustadt and Neumarkt . His possessions stretched from the Rottal up to Tirschenreuth along the Bohemian border.

In 1230 Heinrich moved with his brother Rapoto II in the wake of Emperor Frederick II to Italy to negotiate his reconciliation with Pope Gregory IX. to participate.

In 1238 Heinrich I gave his possessions around the Murach fortress to his three younger sons and his second wife Richgard.

Heinrich I was together with his brother Rapoto II and his nephew Rapoto III. involved in many feuds with neighbors. During the first conflict in 1192 , Heinrich was captured by Duke Leopold of Austria after the siege of his Ortenburg castle . In the following years he was involved in further feuds, among others with the Counts of Bogen ( 1199 , 1212, 1216) and the Bishops Wolfgar (1199) and Mangold (1222) of Passau. In addition, Heinrich and his brother were guests at a number of imperial, court and state assemblies of the emperors, kings and dukes.

Heinrich I died on February 15, 1241. According to a document from his son Rapoto IV , he was buried in the Sixtus Chapel next to Passau Cathedral.

progeny

Heinrich I was married twice. In 1st marriage with Juta , also Božislava, princess of Bohemia and daughter of the Bohemian king Ottokar I. Přemysl . Second marriage to Richgard, Margravine von Hohenburg, daughter of Margrave Diepold von Hohenburg . The following children are from these marriages:

1st marriage:

• Elisabeth († 1272), ∞ Gebhard IV. († 1279), Landgrave of Leuchtenberg
• Heinrich II. († February 4, 1257), Count of Ortenburg
• Anna († 1239), ∞ Friedrich IV. († August 30, 1274), Count of Truhendingen
• Osanna († January 17, 1288), ∞ Konrad von Ehrenfels

2nd marriage:

• Gebhard († 1275), Count of Ortenburg and Count of Murach
• Rapoto IV. († 1296), Count of Ortenburg and Count of Murach, ∞ Kunigunde, daughter of Diethalm von Bruckenberg
• Diepold († August 1285)

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 1: The ducal house in Carinthia. , Vilshofen 1931.
• Ders .: History of the imperial, ducal and counts 'entire house in Ortenburg - Part 2: The counts' house in Bavaria. , Vilshofen 1932.
• Richard Loibl : The rulership of the Counts of Vornbach and their successors, studies on the history of rulership in Eastern Bavaria in the High Middle Ages (Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, Series II, Issue 5), Munich 1997.

predecessor	Office	successor
Rapoto I.	Count of Ortenburg 1186–1241	Henry II
Rapoto I.	Count of Murach 1186-1238	Gebhard , Diepold , Rapoto IV.