Ulrich I. (Carinthia)

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Ulrich I († April 7, 1144 ) from the Spanheimer dynasty was Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona from 1135 to 1144.

Live and act

He was the eldest son of Duke Engelbert and Uta von Passau. It got its name because of his powerful and influential grandfather, the Passau burgrave Ulrich .

In 1135 he was at the Reichstag in Bamberg by Emperor Lothar III. enfeoffed with the duchy of Carinthia after his father renounced the duchy . In 1136/37 he was traveling with the emperor in Italy, from 1138 he was a Staufer supporter and had constant arguments with the great Carinthian aristocratic families, the Salzburg archbishops and the bishops of Bamberg .

He died in 1144 and is buried in the Rosazzo monastery.

family

Ulrich I was married to Judith , daughter of Margrave Hermann II of Baden (not certain).

Children:

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).
  • Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg - Part 1: The ducal house in Carinthia. , Vilshofen 1931.

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predecessor Office successor
Engelbert Duke of Carinthia
Margrave of Verona
1135–1144
Henry V.