Poppo I (also ''Boppo''; died 13 July, before 1044), Count of

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, was

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from 1012 and of

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from 1040 to his death. Poppo was the scion of a comital family from the Imperial

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. His father was Count

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. He married Hadamut, the daughter of one Count Weriand, who in 1001 had received large estates in eastern

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and

, then part of the

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ruled by the

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dukes, from the hands of Emperor

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. Poppo thus inherited a claim to the Istrian peninsula and began to use the margravial title. After King

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had inherited the Duchy Carinthia, he in 1040 established the separate Marches of Istria and Carniola. As his wife's mother was related to the Bavarian Counts of

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, who held possessions in Carniola, Poppo was also appointed Carniolan margrave. Hadamut gave him one son, Ulric I, who succeeded his father in 1045.

References

Medieval Lands Project: Carinthia: Marchesi of Carniola and Istria (Grafen von Weimar).
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