Siegfried I, Count of Sponheim
Siegfried I ( c. 1010/15 on the Burgsponheim; † February 7, 1065 in Bulgaria ) is regarded as the ancestor of the Carinthian Spannheimer and all its side branches, the Counts of Lebenau and the Counts of places castle. He was Count of Spanheim, Margrave of Hungary Mark, and count in Val Pusteria and Lavant.
Race and Ethnicity
He originally came from the Rhine Franks, where he was born on the Burgsponheim. His direct ancestors are from lack of sources no longer detectable. However, it can prove his kinship with the Zeisolf - Wolframen, Count in Königssondergau and the remaining branch of Spannheimer in the Rhineland. Siegfried a cousins - family relationship unexplained degree with the mid-11th century detectable Count Stefan von Spanheim, which is regarded as the ancestor of remaining in the Rhenish homeland Spannheimer which live on in the present Prince of Sayn and Wittgenstein.
Life and work
In 1035 Emperor Conrad II drew against Duke Adalbero of Eppenstein to Carinthia. In the wake of Conrad Siegfried I. was as his confidant. He came from the Rhineland in the southeast of the former empire. Through marriage of Richgard, the heiress of Count Engelbert IV in Val Pusteria of the family of victory Hardinger and Liutgard, he gained great possessions in Tyrol and Carinthia.
In 1044 he appeared as the reigning Count of Sponheim. 1045 Siegfried was built by Emperor Henry III. invested with the Margraviate of Hungary marks in eastern Lower Austria. This kept and but he managed only a short time. Then these fell to the Babenberg. 1048 he appeared as Gaugraf in Val Pusteria and Count in the Lavant Valley, Siegfried therefore had already been his late father Engelbert IV as a heritage of the possessions be followed. He also took over the possessions of his father- in Upper Bavaria. In addition, he was soon Vogt of the bishoprics of Brixen and Salzburg. Siegfried also acquired possessions in Lower Carinthia and in the eastern part of Upper Bavaria.
In 1064, Siegfried I took part in the pilgrimage of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz to Jerusalem. On the return trip, a year later, he died in Bulgaria. There he was buried before his widow Richgard triggered the body and had to bury him in the Lavant valley in the planned and erected by him St. Paul.
In 1909, in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the street after him Siegfried.
Progeny
- Engelbert I († 1096 ), Margrave of Istria, Count Spanheim, Count of Val Pusteria, ∞ Hadwig
- Siegfried († 1070) ∞ NN, all appearances not equal, as descendants not directly related to other clamping Heimern.
- Hartwig († 1102), Archbishop of Magdeburg
- Hermann ( † 1118), Viscount of Magdeburg