Hungarian March
The Hungarian March (Ungarische Mark or Ungarnmark) or Neumark ("New March") was a brief
March of Austria
.
- Liutpold, reigned for a few days until his death on 9 December 1043
- Siegfried I, from Sponheim, reigned 1045–1048/1065
The Hungarian march was founded by Henry III following his first campaign against Hungary in 1041. In 1043, the Hungarian king
Sponheimer Count Siegfried. The centre of the march was Siegfried's castle of villa Stilevrida (Stillfried in present-day Angern an der March). According to Koch (1986, 133), the Hungarian march disappeared with Siegfried's death in 1065. Documents only name him with the title marchio (margrave) between 1045 and 1048, however; thereafter he is only titled comes (count) in the Puster Valley
, which he may have received as compensation for losing his march.
The Hungarian march was called the "new march" because it was a "new" eastern march — a sort of extension of Austria. During the reign of Adalbert's younger son Margrave Ernest of Austria, the new march was indeed united to the old march, Austria proper.
Sources
- "Leopold (Sohn des Markgrafen Adalbert von Oesterreich)." Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, by the Historischen Kommission of the Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 18, Seite 381ff. (retrieved 27 May 2007, 4:44 UTC)
- Koch, Rudolf (1986). Die Entwicklung der Romanischen Westturmanlage in Österreich. Archived 2011-02-09 at the Wayback Machine PhD Dissertation, University of Vienna.