Henry III. (Ortenburg)

Henry III. († 1345 ) was the son of Count Rapoto IV of Ortenburg and comes from the Bavarian dynasty of the Ortenburgers . After the death of his father, he succeeded him as the incumbent count, with his mother Kunigunde von Bruckberg taking over the guardianship.

Live and act

In 1296 Heinrich III followed. underage his late father as Count von Ortenburg . Officially, however, he only took over his office after his mother renounced the regency in 1321. His guardians until then were his mother Kunigunde von Bruckberg, his grandfather Diethelm von Bruckberg and his great-grandfather Count Albrecht von Hals . As the only child of his parents, Heinrich acquired all of their goods after their death. Thus, after the great divisions of inheritance and the violent disputes of the Count's House of Ortenburg in the 12th century, there were no further major losses of territory.

In 1311 Heinrich III. Share in the “ Ottonische Handfeste ” , in which Duke Otto , who was in financial distress due to a war for the Hungarian royal crown, in which the lower jurisdiction in Lower Bavarian territories was shared with 70 noble families in return for a tax. This meant a great expansion of power for the small county of Ortenburg. Whether and to what extent Heinrich III. was involved in the struggles of Duke Otto between 1309 and 1311 for the Bohemian royal crown is unknown.

Henry III. seemed to have a good relationship with the dukes Heinrich the Elder , Otto III. and Heinrich the Younger , because in 1319 they transferred to him the rule of Wildeneck (Wildenegg), a bailiff belonging to Mondsee Monastery , which his ancestors once held. In addition, the dukes released all the burdens on them.

Furthermore, Heinrich often appeared as a witness in documents of the Bavarian dukes in the following years, including on April 24, 1336 for Duke Heinrich XIV. At the armistice agreed with Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian .

progeny

Henry III. was married to Adelheid von Schaunberg and Sophie von Henneberg . The following child comes from the first marriage:

• Heinrich IV. († 1395), ∞ Agnes von Hals

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).
• The same: Archives of the Counts of Ortenburg. Documents from the Ortenburg family and county (in Tambach and Munich). Vol. 1: 1142–1400 (Bavarian archive inventories Volume 42), Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.
• Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Volume 2: The Count's House in Bavaria. Rückert, 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 ).

Web links

• Henry III. in the CERL Thesaurus
• Root list on Genealogy.euweb.cz
• Genealogy of the Counts of Ortenburg

predecessor	Office	successor
Rapoto IV.	Count of Ortenburg 1297-1345	Henry IV.