Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol

Meinhard (* 1344 in Landshut, † January 13, 1363 at Castle Tyrol or in Meran ) was Duke of Upper Bavaria and as Meinhard III. Count of Tyrol.

Life

Meinhard was the son of Margaret of Tyrol with Ludwig V of Bavaria and thus maternal last Tyrolean Meinhardiner. In June 1359 he married Margaret in Passau, a subsidiary of the Austrian Duke Albrecht II to seal the alliance of his parents with the Habsburgs. Through the mediation of the Habsburgs his parents were liberated on this occasion of the excommunication.

After the death of his father, Louis V in 1361 Meinhard succeeded him in the government of Upper Bavaria and the Tyrol, which was strongly influenced by his Wittelsbach relatives. On the run from his uncle Stephen II Eichstätter him the Prince Bishop Berthold granted by Zollern shelter and he then came to Tyrol. Meinhard besieged and destroyed a significant proportion of the Tyrolean castles, as he reflected an aristocratic revolt. After his early death, his mother inherited the claims against Meinhard VI. of Gorizia and the Wittelsbach Tyrol Rudolf IV of Austria, the brother of her daughter. Upper Bavaria fell to Meinhard's uncle Stephen II of Bavaria- Landshut, who also occupied the Tyrol, but eventually it 1369 in the Peace of Schärding gave the Habsburgs.