Counts of Andechs
Andechs | |
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Kingdom of Croatia (under Hungary) | |
Founded | 1100 |
Current head | Ludwig Jozef, Duke of Dießen-Andechs |
Titles | Duke of Dießen-Andechs Margrave of Istria Duke of Merania |
The House of Andechs was a feudal line of
.History
The noble family originally resided in southwestern
Berthold II had inherited the family's Bavarian territories but also acquired possessions in the adjacent
In the year 1180, the County of Andechs acquired the town of Innsbruck.[1]
Otto II of Andechs was bishop of Bamberg from 1177 to 1196. In 1208, when
Saint
Otto succeeded his father as Duke of Dalmatia, and Henry became Margrave of Istria. Of her three sisters, Gertrude of Andechs-Merania (1185 – 28 September 1213) was the first wife of Andrew II of Hungary and the mother of St Elizabeth of Hungary; Mechtilde became Abbess of Kitzingen; while Agnes, a famous beauty, was made the illegitimate third wife of Philip II of France in 1196, on the repudiation of his lawful wife, Ingeborg, but was dismissed in 1200, after Pope Innocent III laid France under an interdict.
Genealogy
- Arnold IV, Count of Otto III of Swabia
- Vogt of Benediktbeuern Abbey, married Sophia, daughter of Margrave Poppo II of Istria, secondly married to Kunigunde of Vornbach
- Poppo (d. Constantinople 11 December 1148), married to Kuniza of Giech, divorced 1142
- Henry, Abbot of Millstatt
- Margrave Berthold I of Istria (c. 1110/15 – 14 December 1188), married to Hedwig, daughter of Count Otto V of Wittelsbach, secondly to Luitgard, daughter of King Sweyn III of Denmark
- Dedi III of Lusatia
- Henry I of Anhalt
- Adalbert IV of Tyrol
- Beatrix (d. after 1265), married to the Ascanian count Herman II of Weimar-Orlamünde
- Margaret (d. 18 October 1271), married to Přemysl of Moravia, son of King Ottokar I of Bohemia; secondly, to Count Frederick of Truhendingen
- Philip I of Savoy
- Elizabeth (d. 18 December 1272), married to the Frederick III of Nuremberg
- Henry (d. 18 July 1228), Margrave of Istria, married to Sophia of Weichselburg
- Bishop of Bamberg
- Patriarch of Aquileia
- Agnes (c. 1180 – 29 July 1201), married to King Philip II of France
- Gertrude (assassinated 28 September 1213), married to King Andrew II of Hungary
- Saint Henry I the Bearded, Duke of Silesia
- Mathilde (d. 1 December 1254), Abbess of Kitzingen
- unnamed daughter, married into the royal Nemanjic family of Serbia
- Sophia (d.1218), married to Count Poppo VI of Henneberg
- Kunigunde (d.1207), married to Count Eberhard III of Eberstein
- Mechtild (d.1245), married to Count Frederick I of Hohenburg, secondly to Count Engelbert III of Görz
- Poppo (1175 – Dezember 1245), Bishop of Bamberg
- Bertha, Abbess of Gerbstedt
- Otto (c. 1132 – 1196), Bishop of Brixen and Bamberg
- Mechtildis of Edelstetten (d.1160)
- Euphemia (d.1180), Abbess of Altomünster
- Kunigunde (d.1139), nun in Admont Abbey
- Poppo (d. Constantinople 11 December 1148), married to Kuniza of Giech, divorced 1142
A history of the House of Andechs was written by the statesman and historian Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, and published in 1796.
Notes
- ^ Chizzali. Tyrol: Impressions of Tyrol. (Innsbruck: Alpina Printers and Publishers) p. 5
External links
- Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy". Genealogy EU.