Rapoto III. (Ortenburg)
Rapoto III. († June 4, 1248 ) was the son of Count Palatine Rapoto II of Ortenburg and thus comes from the house of the Ortenburgers . Rapoto succeeded his father of the same name in office and dignity as Count of Kraiburg-Marquartstein and Count Palatine of Bavaria.
Live and act
After the death of his father, Rapoto III fell. the dignity of the Count Palatine of Bavaria , which he held from 1231 until his death. During his reign, the Ortenburg aristocratic family stood at the height of their power. It would never again be as influential and powerful as it was in its lifetime. His sole possession stretched from the Danube down to the Brixental in Tyrol.
The preferred seat of the Palatinate County was Kraiburg , the headquarters of the County of Kraiburg . The administration of his Rottaler possessions was in Griesbach . This benefited enormously economically and led to great prosperity in the city.
Between 1234 and 1236 he went to war with his uncle Count Heinrich I von Ortenburg and Duke Otto II of Bavaria against Duke Friedrich II of Austria. After his marriage to Agnes von Andechs, Friedrich raised claims to areas west of the Inn, especially areas belonging to the Bavarian dukes. The war was mutually successful, but neither party could gain a decisive advantage. There was a change only with the intervention of Emperor Frederick II. The emperor imposed the imperial ban on the Austrian duke, as he fought on the side of the renegade emperor's son. Emperor Duke Otto of Bavaria and Duke Bernhard of Carinthia entrusted the execution of the imperial ban . In 1237 the two dukes, together with the emperor, moved to Austria with a mighty army. Including Rapoto III. and his uncle Count Heinrich. Vienna was captured by imperial troops at the beginning of 1237 after Duke Friedrich fled to his strong fortress Wiener Neustadt .
In 1239 there was a bloody feud between Bishop Siegfried von Regensburg and Rapoto. It was about disputes because of the Palatine customs posts on the Danube near Hilgartsberg Castle and Vilshofen . A year later, Rapoto III. captured by Siegfried. His freedom cost Rapoto enormous areas and influence, among other things he had to cede many of his castles and areas in Tyrol and in the Ramsauer Land to the bishop. These included the properties in the Brixner Valley.
In 1244 Rapoto traveled to Salzburg to negotiate his rights in the Chiemgau with Archbishop Eberhard II , which his father Rapoto II. After the death of Count Bernhard von Lebenau in 1229 and the associated extinction of the Spanheimer branch of the counts von Lebenau had received. Rapoto received these possessions from Eberhard as an inalienable and not to be passed on fief.
With his death in 1248, the Ortenburg branch of the Count Palatine expired . Rapoto's possessions passed to the Werdenberg family because he had only one daughter. The possessions were later sold to the Bavarian dukes. This represented a significant loss for the Ortenburg house.
Today Graf-Rapoto-Straße in Kraiburg am Inn is named after him, his grandfather Rapoto I and his father.
progeny
Rapoto III. was married to Adelheid von Zollern, daughter of the burgrave Konrad von Zollern. The following child came from this marriage:
- Elisabeth, ∞ Hartmann I. von Werdenberg
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.
- Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Volume 2: The Count's House in Bavaria. Rückert, Vilshofen 1932.
- Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria - memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 , Landshut 1863 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Rapoto II. |
Count Palatine of Bavaria 1231–1248 |
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| Rapoto II. |
Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein 1231–1248 |
Hartmann I. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rapoto III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count Palatine of Bavaria and Count of Kraiburg and Marquartstein |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th century or 13th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1248 |