Mathilde von Andechs

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Mathilde von Andechs was a daughter of Margrave Berthold III. of Istria , Count of Andechs . By marriage she was Countess of Gorizia .

Life

The parents of Mathilde von Andechs were Berthold III. (* approx. 1137; † 1188) and Hedwig NN († July 16, 1176), whose origins are not certain from sources. Mathilde had six siblings or half-siblings.

Mathilde married Count Engelbert III. von Gorizia and is first mentioned together with him between 1183/1189. They had a son, Meinhard III. von Gorizia (I. von Tirol) and a daughter of unknown name.

She died on a January 17, unknown year, after 1193/1206 at the earliest. It could also be the case with the widow of Count Engelbert III, mentioned in 1222 . von Gorizia was still about Mathilde.

Mathilde's paternal aunt of the same name was the beatified (Mathilde) Mechtild von Dießen (Andechs), abbess of the Augustinian Choir Monastery of Edelstetten .

Biographical errors

The incorrect title of Mathilde as Margravine von Hohenburg in the oldest handwritten genealogy of the Counts of Dießen / Andechs and the inadvertent assignment of the year of death of her half-brother Count Poppo (II.) Von Andechs ( Elekt / Bishop of Bamberg ) also to Mathilde led to a series of biographical errors. In addition to the clearly documented Count Engelbert III. From Gorizia, Mathilde von Andechs was assigned four other spouses until modern literature. Uncertainties also arose from the assumption of Ludmil Hauptmann, Engelbert III. von Gorizia succeeded in expanding his rule to Istria through a marriage with the daughter Mathilde of Count Meinhard von Schwarzenburg (Istria). There is no reliable evidence for this (possibly second) marriage.

Literature and Sources

  • Franz Ludwig Baumann : Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Necr. Germ. 1, Berlin 1888 (ND Munich 1983), Necr. Diessense, pp. 9, 19, 22, 31.
  • Pietro Kandler : Codice Diplomatico Istriano , Volume 1, Triest 1862–1865 (ND Triest 1986), transcripts of documents No. 167/168, Rovigno, (after August) 1183 (–1189), date indexed.
  • August von Jacksch: Monumenta historica ducatus Carinthiae , Volume I: Die Gurker Geschichtsquellen 864–1232 , Klagenfurt (1896), No. 412, p. 301f, Strasbourg (Carinthia), 1206.
  • Bavarian State Library Munich, manuscript Clm 5515, fol. 128r (older version of the Andechs genealogy around 1218/1237 and later version around 14th century). Manuscript Clm 1018 fol. 1v (Dießener Nekrolog, made approx. 1204–1210 / 1212; for Mathilde's death date January 17th, the year 1245 is only added in Arabic script in the 17th / 18th century).
  • Edmund Oefele: History of the Counts of Andechs . Innsbruck 1877 (with regesta and family tree).
  • Ludmil Hauptmann: Krain . In: Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Austrian Alpine Countries, Vienna 1929, pp. 309–484, see pp. 398f. and p. 401.
  • Philipp Jedelhauser: 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, April / September 2016, Vienna, pp. 277–341, see p. 285, p. 291– 293, pp. 305-318, pp. 322 and 335, sources on the wife of Hedwig von Berthold III. see note 119 p. 304.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ clearly evidenced by a document made in Rovigno (Istria) between August 1183/1189, in which she appears with this as a witness and is referred to as daughter-in-law by Engelbert II of Gorizia .
  2. ↑ Mentioned without a name in a document from Bishop Walther von Gurk from 1206
  3. ^ Necrology of the Dießen monastery
personal data
SURNAME Andechs, Mathilde von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Margrave Berthold III. of Istria, Count of Andechs
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century