Rapoto II. (Ortenburg)

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The equestrian seal of the later Bavarian Count Palatine Rapotos II von Ortenburg from 1190.

Rapoto II. († March 19, 1231 ) is the firstborn son of Count Rapoto I of Ortenburg and thus came from the house of the Ortenburgers .

Live and act

Rapoto II and his younger brother Heinrich I were very well known thanks to the high position of the family in the empire. Both were knighted together with the sons of Emperor Friedrich I at the Reichstag in Mainz in 1184.

Together with his brother, Rapoto pursued the constant expansion of their domain. In doing so, they not only bought new property, but also acquired property from noble families through usurpation , for example the property of the Massinger and Redinger families in 1190.

After the death of the father Rapoto I in 1186, the brothers managed the estates jointly. After the Count von Sulzbach died out and the inheritance that came with it in 1188, Rapoto and Heinrich divided their possessions. Rapoto received the Upper Bavarian county of Kraiburg-Marquartstein with the town of Kraiburg as the core as well as the possessions in the Rottal and Rottachgau . Until the year 1240 he and his successor, his son Rapoto III tried . to keep expanding their property.

These expansions soon led to numerous conflicts with the neighbors. Among other things, the first bloody feud broke out in 1192, in which large parts between the Danube and Inn were sacked. The conflict reached beyond the borders of Eastern Bavaria. The reasons were probably disputed national and hunting borders and the legacy of the Counts of Sulzbach. Here the ancestral castle, Burg Ortenburg , was destroyed. Only the intervention of Emperor Heinrich VI. ended the bloody war. Count Albert was exiled to Apulia for punishment, and Duke Ottokar of Bohemia even lost his duchy.

Also in the years 1199, 1212 and 1226 there were extremely bloody arguments with the neighbors. Numerous villages in Bavaria, Bohemia and Austria were burned.

In the year 1200 Rapoto acquired the property of the noble free of the Rotter and thus promoted his power on the Rott .

In 1208 Count Palatine Otto VIII was removed from his office due to the murder of King Philip of Swabia and was banned from the Empire. The Count of Andechs was assumed to be involved. Duke Ludwig der Kelheim reacted immediately and occupied their possessions in Upper Bavaria. Rapoto II occupied the Andechs possessions around Neuburg am Inn and thus acquired the heartland of the former enemies of the Counts of Vornbach . The rich possessions seem to have remained with him, since he has exercised the Count's rights on the Inn since then. In the same year Rapoto II was granted the Count Palatine of Bavaria. This office made him the second most powerful man in the Duchy of Bavaria and also the Duke's deputy. He exercised his office from his Kraiburg castle .

In 1217 Rapoto II acquired the rich estates of the Griesbach-Waxenberg family. With these rich goods in hand, he began an extensive restructuring of his dominion, in which Griesbach became a new central place and the castle became a place of justice. With this, the Ortenburg expansion came to an end. The basis of the property of the counts, however, was not inherited from ancestors, but a complete new formation from the 12th and 13th centuries, the most important basis of which was not the granting of judicial rights, as in the past, but was based on bailiwick rights.

In 1229 Rapoto II and his brother Heinrich were on a trip to Italy. They followed the call of Emperor Friedrich to participate in reconciliation negotiations between the emperor and Pope Gregory IX. to participate. Both are recorded as witnesses in the second peace treaty in San Germano .

Together with his brother Count Heinrich and his cousin Duke Bernhard of Carinthia , Rapoto II served the empire for Emperor Heinrich VI several times . , King Otto IV. And for Emperor Friedrich II. Active. He was also in the service of Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Today Graf-Rapoto-Straße in Kraiburg am Inn is named after him, his father and his son.

progeny

Rapoto II was married to Udilhild, daughter of Count Albert von Dillingen . The following children were born from this marriage:

The descendants of the following child are controversial:

literature

  • Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, No. 36, Passau 1994 (p. 9 -62).
  • Ders .: Archives of the Counts of Ortenburg. Documents of the family and county of Ortenburg (in Tambach and Munich) Volume 1: 1142–1400 (= Bavarian archive inventories 42), Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.
  • Ders .: Wittelsbacher and Ortenburger - To clear up genealogical errors , published in: Gesellschaftgeschichte. Festschrift for Karl Bosl on the occasion of his 80th birthday , Munich 1988.
  • Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts 'entire house of Ortenburg - Part 2: The counts' house in Bavaria. , Vilshofen 1932.
  • Richard Loibl : The rulership of the Counts of Vornbach and their successors, studies on the history of rulership in Eastern Bavaria in the High Middle Ages (Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, Series II, Issue 5), Munich 1997.
  • Karlheinz Weilnböck after a lecture by Dr. Richard Loibl: The Vornbacher ruled between Rott and Wald, Isar and Hausruck , published in: Heimatglocken - Supplement for local instruction and entertainment , No. 10, Passau 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the street names of Kraiburg am Inn ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lra-mue.de
  2. ↑ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld sees Friedrich III. as the son of Rapoto II. ( books.google.com Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its Salt Works , Volume 1. Salzburg 1815; p. 102 f.) The historian Friedrich Hausmann could not, however, be able to identify any family relationships between Rapoto II . and Friedrich in documents. (Friedrich Hausmann: The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde , No. 36, Passau 1994. p. 22f)
predecessor Office successor
Otto VIII. Count Palatine of Bavaria
1208–1231 		Rapoto III.
Rapoto I. Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein
1186–1231 		Rapoto III.
personal data
SURNAME Rapoto II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine of Bavaria, Count of Ortenburg and Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1231