Berthold, Duke of Merania

Berthold IV of Andechs († August 12, 1204 ) was Count of Andechs and Duke of Meranien. He was the eldest son of Count Berthold III. Hedwig of Andechs and of Wittelsbach.

1170 is the first time he enters 1172 as Count of Andechs and 1175 as Margrave of Istria, ten years later ( 1185 ) for the area in Rijeka as Duke of Meranien. Again, ten years later, by 1195, he testified as bailiff of Tegernsee.

He took in 1186 to King Henry VI. Italian campaign in part, and later in the army of Emperor Barbarossa in the Third Crusade. After the death of Henry VI. he stood in the struggle for the throne on the side of Philip of Swabia.

In his time the family reached the zenith of Andechs- Meranien their reputation. Your possession ranged from Franconia to the Adriatic Sea, and it Berthold, his daughters to gain both the Crown of Hungary as well as the French, even if the French marriage was annulled because of a non-recognized divorce later succeeded.

Berthold died 1204 and was buried in Unterdießen.

Marriage and issue

In 1180 he was married to Agnes of Rochlitz from the family of Wettin, the daughter of the Dedos finest in Graf von Groitzsch and Lord of Rochlitz. She died on March 25, 1195 and was buried in Unterdießen.

Berthold and Agnes had nine children, four sons and five daughters:

• Otto I, † May 7, 1234 in Besancon, 1205 Duke of Meranien, 1211 Count Palatine of Burgundy, 1228-1230, Margrave of Istria, in the long- buried home monastery; ∞ I June 21, 1208 in Bamberg Beatrix of Swabia, Countess Palatine of Burgundy, † May 7, 1231, daughter of Otto I, Count Palatine of Burgundy ( Staufer ); ∞ II Sophie von Anhalt, † between November 1273 and January 5, 1274, daughter of Prince Heinrich I. 23 ( Ascanians )
• Henry, † July 18, 1228 in Windischgraz 1205 Margrave of Istria, 1209-1211 ostracized due to his alleged participation in the assassination of King Philip of Swabia; ∞ before 1207 Sophie of Vistula castle, † February 28, 1256, daughter of Count Albert
• Egbert, † June 6, 1237 in Vienna, 1234 guardian of the Duke Otto II, 1192 Provost of St. Gangolf in Bamberg, 1196 Provost in Theuerstadt, 1202 Provost in Bamberg, 1203-1237 Bishop of Bamberg, 1209-1212 ostracized
• Berthold, † May 23, 1251, 1205/ 06 and 1212 elec Archbishop of Kalocsa, 1218 Patriarch of Aquileia
• Daughter, ∞ April 24, 1190 Toljen from the House of Nemanjić
• Agnes, probably * 1180, † July 29, 1201 in Château Poissy, also buried there; ∞ June 1, 1196, divorced in 1200, Philip Augustus, King of France 1180, † July 14, 1223 in Mantes- la- Jolie, is buried in the Basilica of Saint -Denis ( Capetian )
• Gertrude, † murdered September 8, 1213; ∞ before 1203 Andrew II King of Hungary, † September 21, 1235 ( Arpad ) (the parents of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia)
• Hedwig the Saints, * 1176/80, † May 14, 1243 as abbess of the Cistercian in Trebnitzgrund, canonized on March 26, 1267, buried in Trebnitzgrund; ∞ 1188/92 Henry I, Duke of Silesia, Cracow and Wielkopolska, † March 19, 1238 ( Piast )
• Mechtild, † December 1, 1254, in 1214 as a nun in St. Theodor in Bamberg, 1215 Abbess of Kitzingen

• Duke ( Meranien )
• Margrave
• Graf ( HRR )
• Crusaders ( Third Crusade )
• Person ( Tegernsee )
• House of Andechs
• German
• Born in the 12th century
• Died in 1204
• Man