Meinhard I.

Meinhard III. von Görz ( Meinhard I. von Tirol ) (* approx. 1193/1194; † July 22, 1258 ) from the Meinhardiner family was Count of Görz (1220–1258) and Count of Tyrol (1253–1258) as well as Vogt of Aquileia , Trento , Brixen and Bolzano .

Life

He was the son of Count Engelbert III. von Gorizia († 1220) and Countess Mathilde von Andechs , daughter of Margrave Berthold III. of Istria (Count of Andechs; † 1188). Meinhard's wife Adelheid was the daughter of Count Albert III. of Tyrol . This marriage was decisive for the acquisition of the County of Tyrol (to the extent at that time) by the Gorizia, since Count Albert III. had no son and Adelheid's sister Elisabeth died childless. In November 1234 Meinhard III notarized. von Gorizia in Cividale with the patriarch Berthold von Aquileia (as Count Berthold V. von Andechs his cousin) the escort, customs and toll rights over the Kreuzberg (Plöckenpaß). This was one of the economically most important contracts of his reign. He opened the shortest connection between the northern and southern possessions of the Gorizia with consistently high income. As a future heir, Meinhard III worked. closely with his father-in-law, Count Albert III. of Tyrol together, this is evidenced by jointly sealed documents.

Meinhard was a member of the Staufer party. He was appointed captain-general of Styria by Emperor Friedrich II in June 1248 and appears in Graz on January 20, 1250 as governor (captain) of Austria . He tried to conquer the supremacy in Carinthia , but was defeated with his ally and father-in-law Count Albert III. of Tyrol in 1252 at Greifenburg against Duke Bernhard of Carinthia and his son Philipp , Elekt of Salzburg . In the Peace of Lieserhofen (December 27, 1252) he had to take his sons Meinhard and Albert hostage (these were held at Hohenwerfen until 1259 and 1261 respectively ), pay a heavy fine and lost important possessions in Carinthia.

Meinhard III. took over together with his brother-in-law, Count Gebhard von Hirschberg after the death of Albert III. von Tirol in July 1253 its possessions. On November 10, 1254, the two agreed in Merano on the division of the Tyrolean heritage, with Count Meinhard receiving the southern possessions including the associated areas in Carinthia and Friuli. In July 1254 he acquired the Trient fiefdom of the main line of the Counts of (Eppan-) Ulten, which had expired in 1248, and in May 1256 the fiefs of the Diocese of Trento itself. Meinhard thus had the main property of the Counts of (Eppan-) Ulten and Tyrol in his hand united. From 1256 it appears in documents mostly with the title Count Meinhard von Görz (III.) And Tirol (I.).

He died Jan./Febr. 1258, was buried in Castle Tyrol and later transferred to the Gorizia house monastery Stams.

family

Meinhard married before September 1237 Adelheid († Oct./Nov. 1278), the daughter of Count Albert III. of Tyrol († 1253). Meinhard was over 40 years old at the time of this marriage, a previous first marriage is currently not known from sources.

Progeny:

• Adelheid von Görz (* after 1241; † 1291), ∞ Friedrich I., Count of Ortenburg / Carinthia († March 28, 1304)
• Meinhard II. (* 1239/1240; † October 30, 1295), Count of Tyrol and Gorizia (IV.)
• Albert I (* 1240/1241; † beginning of September 1304), Count of Gorizia and Tyrol

swell

• Hermann Wiesflecker : The Regesta of the Counts of Görz and Tirol, Count Palatine in Carinthia , Volume I, Innsbruck 1949, No. 396, p. 108 - No. 652, p. 170 [Count Meinhard von Görz (III.) From 1221– 1256, from 1256–1258 mostly called Count Meinhard von Görz (III.) And Tyrol (I.)].

literature

• Wilhelm Baum:  Meinhard I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 666 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Alfons Huber:  Meinhard I. (III.), Count of Gorizia and Tirol . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 228 f.
• Wilhelm Baum: The Counts of Görz in the European politics of the Middle Ages. Klagenfurt 2000
• 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, Vienna April / September 2016. (Family table of the Counts of Görz p. 322 with the following commentary on the dates of birth and death mentioned in the above text), p. 288f. on the hostage of the sons Meinhard and Albert of Count Meinhard III. from Gorizia.

Remarks

1. ↑ August von Jaksch: Monumenta Historica Ducatus Carinthiae, Volume IV / 1, Klagenfurt 1906, No. 2094, S 222f., Cividale, 1234 November 27.
2. ^ Hermann Wiesflecker: Die Regesten der Grafen von Görz und Tirol, Pfalzgrafen in Kärnten, Volume I, Innsbruck 1949, No. 553, S. 144, Graz, 1250 January 20.
3. ↑ Hermann Wiesflecker, as above Volume I., No. 591, pp. 153–155, Lieserhofen, 1252 December 27.
4. ↑ Hermann Wiesflecker, as above I. Volume, No. 620, p. 162, Meran, 1254 November 10.
5. ↑ Hermann Wiesflecker, as above Volume I, No. 617, p. 161, Capodistria, 1254 July 28.

predecessor	Office	successor
Meinhard II.	Count of Gorizia 1231–1258	Meinhard IV./II.
Albert III	Count of Tyrol 1253–1258	Meinhard IV./II.