Heilika of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld

Heilika of Lengenfeld (also Eilika; * to 1103, † September 14, 1170, buried in the monastery Ensdorf ) was by marriage Countess Palatine of Bavaria.

She was one of two daughters of the noble outdoors ( or Count ) Friedrich III. Pettendorf - Lengenfeld Hopfenohe, who died in 1112/1119 without a male heir. Her mother Heilika of Swabia was the daughter of Duke Frederick I of Swabia and his wife, Agnes of Waiblingen. So she was a granddaughter of Emperor Henry IV

She married Count Otto V of Scheyern († 1156 ), Count Palatine of Bavaria was in 1124 and moved the Palatinate Count's residence from the castle Scheyern the castle of Wittelsbach in Aichach.

Their son, Otto " the redhead " (c. 1117, † 1183 ) succeeded his father as Count Otto VIII of Scheyern, as Count Otto V of Wittelsbach, and as Count Palatine Otto VI. of Bavaria. After the fall of Henry the Lion in 1180 he received from Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, the Duchy of Bavaria as a fief and called himself then Duke Otto I of Bavaria. With him dominion of the Wittelsbach dynasty began in Bavaria, which lasted until 1918.

Her daughter Hedwig (c. 1117; † July 16, 1174 ) married 1135 the later Duke of Meranien and Margrave of Istria, Carniola, Berthold V. (* 1112, † December 14, 1188 ); since 1151, Count of Andechs, since 1157 also Count of Unterdießen -Wolfratshausen.

Heilikas Heilwig sister was with Count Gebhard I von Leuchtenberg († 1146 ), married, of the rule of Waldeck inherited by this marriage.