Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia

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Meinhard I
Count of Gorizia
Coat of arms of the Counts of Gorizia,
Ingeram Codex, 1459
Bornc. 1070
Died1142
Noble familyHouse of Gorizia (Meinhardiner)
Spouse(s)Hildegard
Elisabeth of Schwarzenburg
IssueEngelbert II, Count of Gorizia
FatherMeginhard, Count in the Puster Valley
MotherDiemut of Spanheim

Meinhard I (c. 1070 – 1142), an ancestor of the noble House of Gorizia (Meinhardiner dynasty), was a Count of Gorizia in the first half of the 12th century. He also held the offices of a Count palatine in the Duchy of Carinthia as well as Vogt governor of the Patriarchate of Aquileia and of St Peter Abbey in the March of Istria.

Life

Meinhard was the son of Meginhard, Count of Lurn, and Diemut of Spanheim.[1] His family was of noble Bavarian origin; Meinhard's father Meginhard is documented as a count in the Bavarian Puster Valley in 1107. The dynasty had been able to acquire large estates in the newly established Patria del Friuli, among them the castle of Gorizia (Görz) as their new ancestral seat. In 1090 Meinhard's elder brother Engelbert I (d. 1122) succeeded their father as ruler over the Puster Valley and Gorizia possessions and in 1099 was appointed Bavarian Count palatine by Emperor Henry IV. In 1102 he also assumed the office of a Vogt of Millstatt Abbey from the Aribonid dynasty related by marriage.

Meinhard is mentioned for the first time as a Count of Gorizia in 1117.[2] At that time, his estates consisted of the Upper Puster Valley estates, from Innichen Abbey to below Lienz in the west, and the lands around Gorizia in Friuli, which later formed the core of the immediate County of Gorizia, as well as parts of Istria, including Pazin.

Marriages and issue

Meinhard's first marriage, with Hildegard, was childless.

From his second marriage, with Elisabeth, a daughter of Count Botho of Schwarzenburg in the Bavarian Nordgau, he had four children:

References

  1. ^ Štih 2010, p. 322.
  2. ^ Štih, Peter (1994). Goriški grofje ter njihovi ministeriali in militi v Istri in na Kranjskem [The Counts of Gorizia and Their Ministerials and Milites] (in Slovenian). Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete Ljubljana . p. 11. ISBN 86-7207-052-6.
  3. ^ Štih 2010, p. 323.

Sources

  • Štih, Peter (2010). The Middle Ages between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic. Brill.
Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia
Born: c. 1070 Died: 1142
Preceded by Count of Gorizia
1122-1142 		Succeeded by