Siegfried I. (Lebenau)

Siegfried I († May 6, 1132 ), also known as Siegfried II because of his grandfather , came from the Spanheim family and is considered the ancestor of the side branch of the Counts of Lebenau in Bavaria and Salzburg. He was Count von Arch ( Raka ) and founder of the County of Lebenau and Vogt of the monasteries St. Emmeram and Seeon .

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Siegfried I von Lebenau was the fourth son of Margrave Engelbert I von Spanheim and his wife Hedwig. He inherited the Lebenau fortress on the Salzach. This was a former aribone fortress , which probably came to his family through the marriage of his grandfather Siegfried von Spanheim to the Sieghardinger Richgard. However, some historians are of the opinion that the castle was only built by Siegfried von Lebenau.

As a further legacy, Siegfried obtained from his father possessions in Upper Bavaria, Carinthia, Lower Styria and Carniola and thus a widely scattered territory. Around 1104 he settled at the Lebenau fortress. Despite the long distance to the house monastery of the Spanheimer family, he maintained lively contacts with St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal .

Soon after, Siegfried referred to himself as Count von Arch, after the Arch castle today Raka, not far from Krško in Slovenia. However, he did not have any count property. He tried to change this quickly by getting married. In his first marriage he married Hildburg von Tengling, the wealthy heir to the Sieghardingen Count Friedrich II von Tengling . When his father-in-law died in 1120, Siegfried fell to all Sieghardinger possessions west of the Salzach. Siegfried immediately relocated the administration of his property to Lebenau. In 1130 he appears as Count von Lebenau , but it is not known when an official enfeoffment took place.

With the help of his brother, Bishop Hartwig von Regensburg , he received the bailiwick of the possessions of the St. Emmeram Monastery and the Seeon Monastery .

Before 1132 Siegfried married for the second time, Countess Adelheid von Dießen, daughter of Count Arnold von Dießen . Thanks to the rich dowry, Siegfried was again able to gain significant territorial gains for his county. Among other things, he was given the Hohenburg Fortress, after which many of his successors were named.

Siegfried I died on May 6, 1132, his successor was his younger son Siegfried II.

progeny

Siegfried I. von Lebenau was married twice. From the first marriage with Hildburg von Tengling comes:

• Friedrich, Count of Hohenburg around 1130

From the second marriage with Adelheid von Dießen († January 23rd around 1145) comes:

• Siegfried II († December 16 around 1163), Count of Lebenau and Hohenburg , ∞ Mathilde von Valley († 1195)

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).
• Detlev Schwennike (Ed.): European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series (Volume IV, Plate 118). JA Stargardt, Berlin 1981.

Web links

• Direct family tree of those from Lebenau
• Family tree of the Spanheimers with branch of the Counts of Lebenau

predecessor	Office	successor
	Count of Lebenau 1104–1132	Siegfried II.
	Count of Arch