Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia

Male - 1141


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  • Name Engelbert , Duke of Carinthia  [1, 2
    Suffix Duke of Carinthia 
    Gender Male 
    Died 13 Apr 1141  [2
    Buried Seeon, Bavaria, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Engelbert II (died 12 or 13 April 1141) from the House of Sponheim was Margrave of Istria and Carniola from sometime between 1101 and 1107 until 1124. In 1124, he was raised to a Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona which he held until his retirement in 1135.

      Engelbert II was the son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim and his wife Hedwig of uncertain descent, maybe a daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony. He married Uta, daughter of Burgrave Ulric of Passau (died about 1099). Together they were the parents of the following children:

      Ulric I, succeeded his father in Carinthia in 1135
      Engelbert III, succeeded his father in Istria, Carniola and Kraiburg in 1124
      Henry, Bishop of Troyes in 1145
      Matilda, married Count Theobald the Great of Blois-Champagne
      Rapoto I, Count of Ortenburg in 1130 and Kraiburg in 1173
      Adelheid, Abbess of Göss in 1146
      Hartwig II, Bishop of Regensburg in 1155
      Ida, married Count William III of Nevers

      About 1100 he established the County of Kraiburg on the inherited estates of his wife in Bavaria. Unlike his father, Engelbert II was a loyal supporter of the Salian dynasty. He stood as guarantor of German king Henry V at his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in February 1111 and witnessed the Concordat of Worms with Pope Callixtus II in September 1122. In the same year his elder brother Henry III was created Duke of Carinthia and upon his death in 1123 Engelbert II succeeded him, having already replaced Count Ulric II of Weimar as margrave in Istria and Carniola about 1107.

      Engelbert II died and was buried at Seeon Abbey.
    Person ID I5494  Bosdet Genealogy
    Last Modified 16 May 2013 

    Father Engelbert, I Count of Sponheim,   d. 1096 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Hedwig 
    Relationship Natural 
    Family ID F2210  Group Sheet

    Family Uta of Passau 
    Children 
     1. Matilda of Carinthia
    Family ID F2209  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Carinthia.

    2. [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert,_Duke_of_Carinthia.