Albert III (died in 1374),Peter Štih & al., Slovenski zgodovinski atlas (Ljubljana, 2011), p. 75 a member of the

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(''Meinhardiner'' dynasty), ruled as Count of Gorizia from 1338 until his death.

Life

Albert III was a son of Count Albert II of Gorizia (1261–1325) and his first wife Elizabeth, a daughter of Landgrave

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. From 1329 to 1338, he served as governor of Gorizia,

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, and Istria for his minor nephew Count John Henry IV. In 1338, he inherited the

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(''Görz'') upon the early death of John Henry IV. Albert ruled jointly with his younger half-brothers

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and Meinhard VI. In 1339, they agreed that Albert would be the sole

count palatine A count palatine (Latin ''comes palatinus''), also count of the palace or palsgrave (from German ''Pfalzgraf''), was originally an official attached to a royal or imperial palace or household and later a nobleman of a rank above that of an or ...

of Carinthia. Three years later, he waived his rights to Gorizia and went on to rule in Istria ( Mitterburg) and in the

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, including County of Metlika. Albert III married a noblewoman named Helen and later, in 1353, with Catherine, a daughter of Count

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. Both marriages were childless. Shortly before his death about 1374, Albert bequested his vast Istrian and Carniolan possessions to the Habsburg duke

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. The remaining Gorizia estates were inherited by his surviving half-brother Meinhard VI, who was elevated to a

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by Emperor Charles IV.

References

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