Ortenburger inheritance dispute (Carinthia)

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The Ortenburg inheritance dispute was a dispute over the ownership of the County of Ortenburg in Carinthia from the 15th century.

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After the Count of Cilli died out in 1456, the Bavarian Counts of Ortenburg , a branch of the Spanheimer noble family , falsely claimed the County of Ortenburg in Carinthia. The Bavarian Ortenburgers assumed that their family had been the founders of this line, as the rulers of the Carinthian county of Ortenburg came from Bavaria and the rulers of the Bavarian county of Ortenburg came from Carinthia. But neither an agnatic nor a marital connection between the two houses has been proven to this day.

In order to consolidate his inheritance claims, the Bavarian Ortenburg Count Johann II , son of Sebastian I , followed the call of the Roman-German King Maximilian I against Switzerland. Allegedly he had promised to enfeoff Johannes in return with the County of Ortenburg in Carinthia and to marry him to the rich heir daughter of the last Lord of Wallsee . However, John II fell during the attack to relieve the besieged Dorneck Castle , south of Basel . So the Carinthian county remained in other ownership.

In 1530, Count Christoph I , who was then ruling in Ortenburg (Bavaria), took part in the Reichstag in Augsburg, where, to his astonishment, he met a Count von Ortenburg: Count Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg . He came to Germany in 1524 in the wake of the later Emperor Charles V and was enfeoffed with the Carinthian County. The objection of Christoph and his allies to the emperor to be recognized as the actual heir of the county in Carinthia was unsuccessful. From now on Christoph renamed his family Count von Ortenburg of the older family and the town of Ortenberg in Ortenburg . Originally the Bavarian county and the family were named after Ortenberg .

As a further sign of hereditary claims, the Bavarian Ortenburgers included the coat of arms of the Carinthian county in their hereditary coat of arms in the middle of the 16th century.

The inheritance claims of the Bavarian Ortenburgers were retained until the middle of the 18th century and only then given up. The hereditary coat of arms was changed back to the original silver battlements on a red background in the middle of the 19th century.

literature

  • Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their branch lines . In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde . No. 36, Passau 1994
  • Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Part 2: The Count's House in Bavaria . Vilshofen 1932