Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia

For Meinhard II of Gorizia–Tyrol (1238–1295), see Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia.
Meinhard II
Count of Gorizia

Coat of arms of the Albertine line of the Counts of Gorizia, Ingeram Codex, 1459
Noble family House of Gorizia
Father Engelbert II, Count of Gorizia
Mother Adelaide of Scheyen-Dachau-Valley
Born c. 1160
Died 1231

Meinhard II, nicknamed the Elder (c.1160 – 1231), a member of the House of Gorizia (Meinhardiner), was ruling Count of Gorizia from 1220 until his death. He also held the title of Vogt (Reeve) of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.

Life

He was the younger son of Count Engelbert II of Gorizia (d. 1191) and his wife Adelaide, a daughter of the Bavarian count Otto I of Scheyern-Dachau-Valley, a progenitor of the ducal House of Wittelsbach.

Meinhard is known to have taken part in the German Crusade of 1197 launched by the Hohenstaufen emperor Henry VI. He laid witness to the death of his friend, the Babenberg duke Frederick I of Austria with Bishop Wolfger of Passau, Count Eberhard of Dörnberg, Count Ulrich III of Eppan and Frederick's closest attendant on 16 April 1198 at Acre.[1]

In 1220, Meinhard II succeeded his elder brother Engelbert III as Count of Gorizia. He died in 1231 and was succeeded by his nephew Meinhard III, who in 1253 also inherited the County of Tyrol.

Marriage and issue

Count Meinhard II married three times:

  1. Kunigunde, a daughter of Count Conrad I of Peilstein, a member of the Siegharding dynasty, from whom the Meinhardiner claimed to descend, in 1183
  2. Adelaide, about whom little is known
  3. a daughter of Count Henry I of Tyrol.

From these marriages he had several children, but none of them survived childhood.

References

  1. Juritsch 1894, pp. 355

Bibliography

Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia
Born: c.1160 Died: 1231
Preceded by
Engelbert III
Count of Gorizia
1220–1231
Succeeded by
Meinhard III
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