Agnes of Merania (1215-1263)

Agnes of Andechs (* 1215, † before January 7, 1263 ) from the house of Andechs- Unterdießen was Duchess of Austria and Styria ( 1230-1243 ) and Duchess of Carinthia ( 1256-1263 ).

Life

As the daughter of Duke Otto I of Andechs- Meranien and Beatrix of Burgundy, she was the heiress of the Andechs goods at the lower Inn ( Neuburg and warping thing, at the time the form Bacher possessions ) and in Carniola and the Windisch Mark (the latter came from the Vistula burgers ). She was also a great-granddaughter of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

1229 she married Frederick, the son of Duke Leopold VI. of Austria and Styria. Frederick had just finished his first wife Sophia of Hungary violated, who had borne him no children, was called in view of the dowry of his new wife Carniolae dominus ( lord of Carniola ) and was in 1230 succeeded his late father in the duchies of Austria and Styria.

Agnes soon became involved in the wars of her husband with the Hungarians and the Emperor and had, for example, in 1236 the Rieger defend castle against your kin; while they got themselves in captivity.

1238 saw the situation been different. They are found together with her uncle Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia, urkundend occasion of the settlement of the monastery Michelstetten / Velesovo ( nope Kranj ) by Viennese Dominican Sisters.

1243 they had to regretfully acknowledge that Friedrich, because of childlessness, had a divorce from her can enforce.

1248 the way into a second marriage with Ulrich von Spanheim was paved for them, the son of the Carinthian Duke Bernhard. From 1250 she is a wife of Ulrich ( Duke 1256-69 ) occupied; now she had this claim to Krain and Windische Mark spent ( "Lord of Carniola "). The areas at the lower Inn but had withheld Friedrich. With Ulrich they should have had two children but died early. She herself died before / around 1263 and is buried in parakeet.

Your dowry, Carniola and the Windische Mark, came after Ulrich's death so as to Przemysl Ottokar Carinthia.