Meinhard II, nicknamed ''the Elder'' ( – 1231), a member of the
House of Gorizia
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(''Meinhardiner''), was ruling
Count of Gorizia
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from 1220 until his death. He also held the title of ''
Vogt
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'' (Reeve) of the
Patriarchate of Aquileia
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Life
He was the younger son of Count
Engelbert II of Gorizia (d. 1191) and his wife Adelaide, a daughter of the
Bavarian count
Otto I of Scheyern-Dachau-Valley, a progenitor of the ducal
House of Wittelsbach
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.
Meinhard is known to have taken part in the German
Crusade of 1197
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launched by the
Hohenstaufen
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emperor
Henry VI. He laid witness to the death of his friend, the
Babenberg
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duke
Frederick I of Austria with Bishop
Wolfger of Passau, Count Eberhard of Dörnberg, Count Ulrich III of Eppan and Frederick's closest attendant on 16 April 1198 at
Acre
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[Juritsch 1894, pp. 355]
In 1220, Meinhard II succeeded his elder brother
Engelbert III as Count of Gorizia. He died in 1231 and was succeeded by his nephew
Meinhard III, who in 1253 also inherited the
County of Tyrol
The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. After 1253, it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg. In 1804, the County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised pr ...
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Marriage and issue
Count Meinhard II married three times:
# Kunigunde, a daughter of Count Conrad I of Peilstein, a member of the Siegharding dynasty, from whom the Meinhardiner claimed to descend, in 1183
# Adelaide, about whom little is known
# a daughter of Count
Henry I of Tyrol.
From these marriages he had several children, but none of them survived childhood.
References
External links
Entry at GenMa*
Bibliography
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Counts of Gorizia
1160s births
Year of birth unknown
1231 deaths
Christians of the Crusade of 1197