Heilika of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld (also known as ''Eilika''; – 14 September 1170; buried in

Ensdorf Abbey Ensdorf Abbey (Kloster Ensdorf) was a house of the Benedictine Order located at Ensdorf, Bavaria, Ensdorf in Bavaria in Germany. Dedicated to Saint James the Greater, Saint James, the monastery was founded in 1121 by Pfalzgraf Otto IV, Count of W ...

) was by marriage Countess Palatine of Bavaria. She was one of the two daughters of the

edelfrei The term ''edelfrei'' or ''hochfrei'' ("free noble" or "free knight") was originally used to designate and distinguish those Germanic noblemen from the Second Estate (see Estates of the realm social hierarchy), who were legally entitled to atonem ...

Lord Frederick III of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenohe, who died between 1112 and 1119 without a male heir. Her mother was a Heilika of Swabia the daughter of Duke

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of Swabia and his wife,

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. As such, she was a granddaughter of Emperor Henry IV. She married Count

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of Wittelsbach (d. 1156), the

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of Bavaria. In 1124, he moved his residence from Scheyern Castle to

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. He donated Scheyern Castle to the

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, who turned it into a monastery. Otto and Heilike had eight children: # Herman #

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, nicknamed "the Redhead" (–1183), succeeded his father as Count Otto VIII of Scheyern, Count Otto V of Wittelsbach and Count Palatine Otto VI of Bavaria. In 1180, after the fall of

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, Emperor Frederick I "Barbarossa" enfeoffed Otto the Redhead with the

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. From then on, he called himself

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of Bavaria. The Wittelsbach dynasty would retain the duchy from 1180 until 1918. # Conrad, Archbishop of

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as Conrad III and Archbishop of

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as Conrad I # Frederick II, (d. 1198 or 1199), married in 1184 to a daughter of Count Mangold of Donauwörth # Udalrich (d. 29 May 1179) # Otto VII (d. 1189), married Benedicta, also a daughter of Count Mangold of Donauwörth # Hedwig ( – 16 July 1174), married in 1135 to Count Berthold ( – 14 December 1188), who in 1151 became Duke Berthold III of

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, Margrave

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and Count Berthold III of

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. In 1157, he also became Count of Dießen-Wolfratshausen. # Adelaide, married Otto II of Stefling Heilika's sister Heilwig was married to Count Gebhard I of

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and brought the Lordship of Waldeck This is the Lordship of Waldeck in the Upper Palatinate, not to be confused with the

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in northern Germany into the marriage. Heilika died on 14 September 1170 and was buried in

External links

Heilika of Lengenfeld
at ''genealogie-mittelalter.de''

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heilika of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld German countesses House of Wittelsbach 1100s births 1170 deaths 12th-century German nobility 12th-century German women