Ottokar II (Styria)

High grave of the founder, Ottokar II, in the Garsten collegiate church

Ottokar II , also Otakar, († November 28, 1122 ), was Count in Traungau and Chiemgau , Margrave of Styria from 1082 to 1122.

He was the son of Ottokar I and the Willibirg of Carinthia . He was married to Elisabeth, a daughter of the Babenberg Margrave Leopold II of Austria. After a victorious fight on the part of the Gregorians against Brother Adalbero in the context of the investiture dispute , he succeeded him as Margrave in 1082.

He founded in 1080 the later Benedictine Garsten (in Steyr ) as a collegiate ..

After the Eppensteiners , who had provided some dukes of Carinthia, died out in 1122, their rich ownership in the Styrian region came to the Traungauers , who were related by marriage to the Eppensteiners , which strengthened their position in their margraviate. The margraviate was separated from the Duchy of Carinthia in 1122 and immediately subordinated to the realm (year of birth of Styria after Hans Pirchegger).

progeny

• Leopold I the Brave / Strong († 1129)
• Kunigunde († 1161), ∞ Bernhard Graf von Sponheim-Marburg († 1147)
• Willibirg († 1145), ∞ Ekbert II. Count von Formbach -Pitten († 1144)

literature

• Heinz Dopsch , Karl Brunner , Maximilian Weltin : 1122–1278. The countries and the empire. The Eastern Alps in the High Middle Ages (= Herwig Wolfram (Hrsg.): Austrian History ). Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3973-7 .
• Karl Brunner: 907-1156. Duchies and Marches. From the Hungarian storm to the 12th century (= Herwig Wolfram (Hrsg.): Österreichische Geschichte. ). Ueberreuter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8000-3521-9 .
• Hans Pirchegger : History of Styria. Volume 1: Until 1283. (= General history of states. Dept. 3: German national histories. Work 12, 1). Pertes, Gotha 1920.
• Franz Xaver Pritz : History of the Styrian Ottokare and their ancestors, up to the extinction of this tribe in 1192. In: Contributions to the regional studies of Austria above the Enns. 5, 1846, ZDB -ID 133400-1 , pp. 121–365, here p. 261 ff.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Adalbero	Margrave of Styria 1082–1122	Leopold I.