Irmgard von Rott

Irmgard von Rott , known as Countess Irmgard of Sulzbach (or: Ermingard of Rott , Irmengard of red ; † 14. June 1101 ), came from the daughter and heiress of the Kuno I of Rott and Uta of Dießen-Andechs the house of Pilgrimids .

Act

A vow, according to legend, in gratitude for the salvation of Count Gebhard II von Sulzbach after a hunting accident near the rock on which the Berchtesgaden collegiate church stands today, made Irmgard co-founder of the Augustinian Canons of Berchtesgaden Abbey . She had brought in the Berchtesgaden property from her first marriage to Count Engelbert V. from Sieghardingen as a widow's gift and in her vow ordered that a clerical community based on the idea of “communal life” ( “congregatio clericorum communis vite” ) should arise there. Irmgard was no longer able to initiate the foundation of the monastery himself: "Held up by various worldly affairs". Therefore, shortly before her death, she commissioned her son Berengar I von Sulzbach to promote the founding of the monastery for “her and his soul's salvation”.

In order to fulfill the maternal vow, Berengar I. von Sulzbach appointed canon Eberwin to the post of canon in the year of her death (1101) , under whose leadership he then sent three Augustinian canons and four lay brothers from the Rottenbuch monastery to Berchtesgaden. Probably between 1102 and 1105 his step-brother or half-brother Kuno II von Horburg traveled on behalf of Berengar I together with the provost Eberwin to Rome to visit Pope Paschal II , who confirmed the count's own monastery berthercatmen as a monastery foundation and "very likely" as early as 7 April 1102 placed under his protection.

family

Irmgard was married three times: First to Engelbert V., Count in Chiemgau (X 1078, Battle of Mellrichstadt ) from the Sieghardinger family , a marriage that remained childless. Irmgard brought the property he inherited, including a forest district, which later formed the heartland of the prince provost of Berchtesgaden , into his marriage with Count Gebhard I ( II. ) Von Sulzbach (1043/1071; † 1085 ) as a morning gift , with whom she the children Adelheid († before 1133) and Berengar I (* before 1080; † December 3, 1125) had. After Gebhard's death, she married Count Kuno von Horburg- Lechsgemünd , who is still known as the son of Kuno II or the younger von Horburg (* 1075 - 30 June 1138/39), who either comes from another connection Kunos , according to Walter Brugger et al., however, "there can be no doubt" that Kuno II is also a child with Irmgard - which, however, raises further questions because of the year of his birth, including the order of their marriages.

Several reasons are suspected that Irmgard went down in history as Countess von Sulzbach . Her last marriage to Count Kuno I von Horburg was shorter than her previous marriage to Count Gebhard II von Sulzbach, and with her burial in the Kastl monastery founded by the Sulzbacher family, Irmgard "returned to the lap of this very traditional family" . In addition, her son Berengar I von Sulzbach, who decisively intervened in big politics, was the far more dominant personality in contrast to his step-brother or half-brother Kuno. Some of his children were married to the nobility .

Descendants from the connection between Irmgard and Count Gebhard von Sulzbach

Family tree and its assignments mainly based on Jürgen Dendorfer, supplemented by information based on Heinz Dopsch - in brackets and in italics, if applicable, old counting methods and date references based on Heinz Dopsch.

Gebhard I. ( II. ) (1043/1071; † 1085 ), Count von Sulzbach ⚭ Irmgard von Rott († June 14, 1101)
- Adelheid († before 1133) ⚭ Count Sigiboto II of Weyarn
- Berengar I (* before 1080; † December 3, 1125), Count von Sulzbach, founder of the Berchtesgaden monastery and von Baumburg , one of the founders of the Kastl monastery after February 1099, Adelheid von Frontenhausen († 1105), widow of Ulrich von Passau (1), ⚭ Adelheid von Wolfratshausen († 1126) (2)
  - (2) Adelheid, Abbess of Niedernburg Monastery in Passau
  - (2) Gertrud (* around 1114; † April 14, 1146 in Hersfeld) ⚭ Konrad III. , Roman-German king
    - Heinrich-Berengar , fellow-king in 1147, crowned in 1147
    - Friedrich IV. Von Rothenburg (* 1144/1145; † 1167), 1152–1167 Duke of Swabia, receives the Egerland; ⚭ 1166 Gertrude of Saxony (* 1154; † 1197) ( Welfen )
  - (2) Bertha († 1158/1160) under the name Irene ⚭ in his 1st marriage to Manuel I. Komnenos , Emperor of Byzantium
    - Maria "Porphyrogenita" Komnene (* 1152 - † July 1182), ⚭ Rainer von Montferrat (* around 1162 - † August 1182), from the house of the Margraves of Montferrat
    - Anna Komnene (* 1154, † 1158).
  - (2) Luitgard ( also: Luitgardis; † after 1163) ⚭ around 1139 Gottfried II. (* Around 1110; † June 13, 1142 ), Count of Leuven , Landgrave of Brabant , as Gottfried VII. Also Duke of Lower Lorraine and thus Margrave of Antwerp , (1) ⚭ around 1143 Hugo II, Count of Dagsburg and Metz (2)
    - (1) Descendants of the Counts of Lions and Dukes of Lower Lorraine
    - (2) Tested as descendants in 1137/78: Etichones
  - (2) Mathilde († 1165) ⚭ around 1139/40 Engelbert III. (* before 1124 - † October 6, 1173 ), from the house of Spanheimer , Margrave of Istria , Margrave of Tuscien , Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein )
    - Childless, no descendants
  - (2) Gebhard II. ( III. ) (* Around 1114 † October 28, 1188), Count of Sulzbach; in the Hohenstaufen service, rival of the Diepoldinger Rapotonen on the Nordgau ; Regensburger Domvogt , Vogt of Niedermünster and Passau - Niedernburg , heir to Warberg Castle ⚭ 1129 Mathilde († March 16, 1183), daughter of Heinrich IX. (also: Heinrich the Black ) Duke of Bavaria
    - Berengar II. († August 21, 1167), Count of Sulzbach 1156–1167
    - Adelheid ⚭ Dietrich IV. († 1172), Count of Kleve
    - Sophie († 1228), heir daughter of Gebhard III. ⚭ Gerhard I. von Grögling († 1170)
    - Elisabeth († 1206) ⚭ 1163 Count Rapoto I of Ortenburg († August 26, 1186), from the house of the Spanheimers , Count of Murach , Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein
    - Bertha († after 1200) ⚭ 1173 Heinrich II. Von Altendorf († 1194)

Remarks

^ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works , Volume 1. Salzburg 1815; P. 12 f.
↑ Stefan Weinfurter , The Foundation of the Augustinian Canons ' Monastery - Reform Idea and Beginnings of the Canon Regulars in Berchtesgaden , in: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594), Vol. 1 , ed. by W. Brugger, H. Dopsch, PF Kramml, Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 233-234.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dieter Albrecht : The prince provost of Berchtesgaden in Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian history . Pp. 286-287.

^ ^A ^b Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 228 ( restricted preview ).

^ Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 228 ( restricted preview ).

↑ Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 8

^ Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 227. ( restricted preview ).

^ Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 228, footnote 185 ( restricted preview ).

^ Jürgen Dendorfer : The Counts of Sulzbach ; PDF file p. 11 of 35

↑ On the number and names of their children together Heinz Dopsch : Siedlung und Recht. On the prehistory of the founders of the Berchtesgaden monastery. In: Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml (eds.): History of Berchtesgaden. Vol. 1: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594). Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 175–228, here: pp. 214 and 221.

↑ For the number and names of their children together, see Heinz Dopsch : Siedlung und Recht. On the prehistory of the Berchtesgaden founders , in: Walter Brugger [Hrsg.]: History of Berchtesgaden. Stift - Markt - Land , Vol. 1, pp. 214 and 221

^ Garland-Stone, Bertha-Irene of Sulzbach, first wife of Manuel I Comnenus

↑ For evidence of Mathilde as Berengar's daughter, see Friedrich Hausmann The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, and their subsidiary lines . In: East Bavarian border marks. Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde. No. 36, 1994, p. 16

↑ On the marriage of Heinrich II. Von Altendorf with Berta von Sulzbach see reference Jürgen Dendorfer: Die Grafen von Sulzbach , page 23 u. 24 of 35 page PDF file.

personal data
SURNAME	Rott, Irmgard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German donor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1050
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1101

[Sternfeld12-1] Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works , Volume 1. Salzburg 1815; P. 12 f.

[2] Stefan Weinfurter , The Foundation of the Augustinian Canons ' Monastery - Reform Idea and Beginnings of the Canon Regulars in Berchtesgaden , in: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594), Vol. 1 , ed. by W. Brugger, H. Dopsch, PF Kramml, Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 233-234.

[Albrecht287-3] Dieter Albrecht : The prince provost of Berchtesgaden in Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian history . Pp. 286-287.

[ZuKunoII-4] A ^b Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 228 ( restricted preview ).

[5] Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 228 ( restricted preview ).

[6] Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 8

[ZuKunoIIa-7] Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 227. ( restricted preview ).

[8] Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991, p. 228, footnote 185 ( restricted preview ).

[9] Jürgen Dendorfer : The Counts of Sulzbach ; PDF file p. 11 of 35

[DopschStammbaum-10] On the number and names of their children together Heinz Dopsch : Siedlung und Recht. On the prehistory of the founders of the Berchtesgaden monastery. In: Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml (eds.): History of Berchtesgaden. Vol. 1: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594). Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 175–228, here: pp. 214 and 221.

[11] For the number and names of their children together, see Heinz Dopsch : Siedlung und Recht. On the prehistory of the Berchtesgaden founders , in: Walter Brugger [Hrsg.]: History of Berchtesgaden. Stift - Markt - Land , Vol. 1, pp. 214 and 221

[12] Garland-Stone, Bertha-Irene of Sulzbach, first wife of Manuel I Comnenus

[13] For evidence of Mathilde as Berengar's daughter, see Friedrich Hausmann The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, and their subsidiary lines . In: East Bavarian border marks. Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde. No. 36, 1994, p. 16

[14] On the marriage of Heinrich II. Von Altendorf with Berta von Sulzbach see reference Jürgen Dendorfer: Die Grafen von Sulzbach , page 23 u. 24 of 35 page PDF file.