Henry V, Duke of Carinthia

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Henry V (died 12 October 1161), of the

duke of Carinthia from 1144 to his death.[1] According to the contemporary chronicler Otto of Freising, Henry was "a valiant man, experienced in the councils of war" (fortem et exercitatum in bellicis consiliis virum).[1][2]

Henry was the eldest son of Duke

ministeriales (high-status serfs) in Carinthia and in the Styrian Mark an der Drau to Margrave Ottokar III of Styria.[1]

In 1151 another uncle,

"counts and barons", which marched through the Val Canale into the march of Verona, the route known as the via Canalis.[5][6]

Henry was a member of the embassy Frederick sent to the

Hermann II.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Moro 1969, p. 361.
  2. ^ a b Otto & Rahewin 1966, p. 330 (IV.lxxxiv).
  3. ^ Kosi 2001, pp. 154–56.
  4. ^ Otto & Rahewin 1966, p. 155 (II.xxxviii).
  5. ^ Otto & Rahewin 1966, p. 201 (III.xxvi).
  6. ^ a b Kosi 2001, p. 154.

Sources

  • Kosi, Miha (2001). "The Age of the Crusades in the South-East of the Empire (Between the Alps and the Adriatic)". In Hunyadi, Zsolt; Laszlovszky, József (eds.). The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity. Budapest: Central European University Medievalia. pp. 123–66.
  • Moro, Gotbert (1969). "Heinrich V.". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 8. p. 361.
  • Otto; Rahewin (1966). The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa (2nd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.

Further reading

  • Hausmann, Friedrich. "Die Grafen zu Ortenburg und ihre Vorfahren im Mannesstamm, die Spanheimer in Kärnten, Sachsen und Bayern, sowie deren Nebenlinien". Ostbairische Grenzmarken – Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte Kunst und Volkskunde 36 (1994): 9–62.
  • Ortenburg-Tambach, Eberhard Graf zu. Geschichte des reichsständischen, herzoglichen und gräflichen Gesamthauses Ortenburg, vol. 1: Das herzogliche Haus in Kärnten. Vilshofen, 1931.
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