Leonhard of Gorizia

Leonhard of Gorizia (* 1440 in Lienz, † April 12, 1500 ibid ) was the last prince of the race of Meinhardiner. The Count tried all his life to regain the lost for the county of Gorizia areas in Carinthia. As Regent, he stood by the extremely capable my hardi African bastard Virgil of digging to the side, who led the government business for Count Leonhard and thus also initiated the transition of Gorizia county in the Habsburg Empire and completed.

Life

As the son of Henry VI. and Catharina Gara joined Leonhard on the last Count of Gorizia. In 1448 he followed with his two brothers Johann and Ludwig his father in the Gorizia rule after. Johann had already died in 1456, his other brother Ludwig died in 1462; from this time Leonhard was responsible for the government alone. He was married first to a daughter of the Bosnian King Nicholas and then with Paola Gonzaga, daughter of Margrave Luigi III. Gonzaga.

In the dispute over the inheritance of the Counts of Celje with Emperor Frederick III. it was time for the counts of Gorizia in 1460 to defeat the subsequent dictated peace of Pusarnitz in which these lost all Carinthian dominions including the town of Lienz and their residence Schloss Bruck. Leonard's brother, Count John of Gorz now moved into the castle rock Hein as permanent seat, while the mint was set up in Toblach. The Gorizians removed the dominions were passed in accordance with the assurances from the Emperor to his captain Jan von Witowec. For unknown reasons, he lost interest in the domain of Lienz and sold it on March 4, 1462 at his comrades Andreas Weißpriach of 4,000 guilders. As part of the military recovery of Bruck Castle and the town of Lienz under Count Leonhard there was a capture of Weißpriach, which was stuck to the late winter of 1467 on Hein rock. He had to Count Leonhard and its regent of Virgil ditch, which had been instrumental in the arrest, Urfehde swear in writing waive all legal claims to the district court of Lienz and the Bruck Castle. In late winter 1467, he was released from prison.

Shortly before his death concluded Leonhard Graf Maximilian I from a contract of inheritance over the county. In the event of death of the childless Leonhard the county of the last Meinhardi agent should be incorporated into the Habsburg Empire. The smooth takeover of the county was obtained by Maximilian big promises to the görzerischen Captain Virgil of trench. Made by digging dissolved his hitherto secret cooperation with the Venetians and made for entry of the country into the Habsburg Empire strong.

With the death of Count Leonhard the dynasty of Meinhardiner expired in 1500. It was only by the illegitimate my hardi African ( görzischen ) Men From digging stone and the counts of Esch hole, descended from Count Meinhard II. / IV. of Tyrol and Gorizia, Duke of Carinthia, continued.