Luitpold (Carantania and Upper Pannonia)

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Death of Duke Luitpold of Bavaria in the Battle of Preßburg ( Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder )

Luitpold (*?; † July 4, 907 near Pressburg ) was margrave in Carantania and Upper Pannonia .

Life

Luitpold's ancestry is not clear. His affiliation with the old Bavarian Huosi family is controversial in research, but a relationship with the Carolingians is not unlikely. It has been suggested, among other things, that Ernst II, Count in Bauarn (Latin earlier: Bura , Buron or Burin ), could have been his father.

Luitpold, the namesake of the Luitpoldinger family , was installed in 893 by Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia as margrave in Carantania and Upper Pannonia (areas in what is now Austria and Hungary) and thus succeeded the Wilhelminers . Around 895 Luitpold acquired the counties Donaugau and Nordgau around Regensburg , thereby expanding his leading position in the southeast of the empire. From the Carolingian emperors, with whom he enjoyed a special position of trust, he was entrusted with tasks in Moravia and the defense against the constantly present Hungarian invasions .

In 898 he successfully marched against the Great Moravian Empire on behalf of the emperor and appears in sources as dux Boemanorum in 903 . After the death of Arnulf, he achieved such a strong position that he is referred to as the nepos of the underage King Ludwig . On July 4, 907, Luitpold fell at the head of the Bavarian army in the Battle of Pressburg , when his troops suffered one of the worst defeats during the Hungarian invasions.

Luitpold had come into contact with an important Swabian family through his marriage to Kunigunde von Schwaben , the sister of the Swabian Count Palatine Erchanger and his brother Count Berthold ( Ahalolfinger ). In 913, King Konrad I married Luitpold's widow in order to tie the duchies of Bavaria and Swabia closer to the kingdom.

From Luitpold's marriage to Kunigunde, the future dukes Arnulf der Böse and Berthold emerged.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Angelus March: From the ancient Benedictine monastery, and later secular choir gentlemen's monasteries Ilmmünster in Oberbaiern . In: Abhandlungen der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften , Volume 10, Munich 1776, pp. 307–372, in particular p. 348, including footnote b). .
  2. ↑ March, 1776, p. 312 .
predecessor Office successor
Arnulf of Carinthia Margrave of Carantania
893–907 		Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria
personal data
SURNAME Luitpold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave in Carantania and Upper Pannonia, Count in the Danube and Northern Gau
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH July 4th 907
Place of death Pressburg