Siegfried I, Count of Sponheim
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Siegfried I (c. 1010 – 7 February 1065) is considered the progenitor of the
Descendance
Siegfried was born at
Life
In 1035 the Salian emperor Conrad II marched against the rebellious Duke Adalbero of Carinthia. In his attendance was Count Siegfried as his close companion,[3] who thus arrived from Rhenish Franconia in the southeastern estates of the German kingdom. Adalbero was deposed and succeeded by the Salian duke Conrad the Younger in 1036.
Siegfried married Richgard, the heiress of Count Engelbert IV in the Puster Valley from the Carinthian family of the Sieghardinger[1] and Aribonids.[4] Through the marriage with Richgard, he obtained large possessions in Tyrol and also in Carinthia,[2] for example the Lavant Valley (in modern Austria)[5] and probably also Laško and some other parts in the March of Carniola (in modern Slovenia) like the territories around Ljubljana.[6]
In the year 1044 he documents as ruling
In 1048 Siegfried documents as a
In 1064 Siegfried joined the
In the year 1909 the Siegfriedstrasse in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna was named after him.
Issue
From Siegfried's marriage with Richgard Countess of Lavant Valley several children were born:
- Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony. Father of Engelbert II.
- Siegfried (d. 1070), married ?, supposedly not of equal birth, since there is no direct relationship of the descendants to further Sponheim counts
- Hartwig (d. 1102), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1079
- Hermann (d. 1118), Burgrave of Magdeburg from 1080
References
Literature
- (in German) Dotzauer, Winfried: Geschichte des Nahe-Hunsrück-Raumes von den Anfängen bis zur Französischen Revolution. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag / 2001
- (in German) Fuchs, Walter: Schloss Ortenburg, Ortenburger Baudenkmäler und die Geschichte der Reichsgrafschaft Ortenburg, Ortenburg / 2000
- (in German) Hausmann, Friedrich: Die Grafen zu Ortenburg und ihre Vorfahren im Mannesstamm, die Spanheimer in Kärnten, Sachsen und Bayern, sowie deren Nebenlinien, erschienen in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte Kunst und Volkskunde, Nr. 36, Passau / 1994
- (in German) Hausmann, Friedrich: Siegfried, Markgraf der "Ungarnmark" und die Anfänge der Spanheimer in Kärnten und um Rheinland. In: Jahrbuch für Landeskunde von Niederösterreich, Neue Folge Band 43. Wien 1977, S. 115–168 (pdf, mgh-bibliothek.de)
- (in Slovene) Gruden, Josip: Zgodovina slovenskega naroda. Celovec, Družba sv. Mohorja/ 1910
- (in Slovene) Hauptmann, Ljudmil: Nastanek in razvoj Kranjske. Ljubljana, Slovenska matica / 1999
- (in Slovene) Kos, Milko: Zgodovina Slovencev. Ljubljana, Jugoslovanska knjigarna / 1933
- (in German) Pellender, Heinz: Tambach - vom Langheimer Klosteramt zur Ortenburg'schen Grafschaft - Historie des Gräflichen Hauses Ortenburg, des Klosteramtes und Schlosses Tambach, 2. Auflage Coburg / 1990
- (in German) Ortenburg-Tambach, Dr. Eberhard Graf zu: Geschichte des reichsständischen, herzoglichen und gräflichen Gesamthauses Ortenburg - Teil 1: Das herzogliche Haus in Kärnten., Vilshofen / 1932
- (in Slovene) Vengust, Marko: Kostanjevica na Krki in koroški vojvode Spanheimi. In: Kostanjeviške novice, n. 36. Kostanjevica. p. 23, 2008
External links
- (in German) Source at site of the Gemeinde Ortenburg
- (in German) Source for Eberhard I