Ulrich X (also called Ulric or Udalrich) ( –1097) was Count of Bregenz from 1079 to his death in 1097.
Life
Ulrich X was the son of Ulrich IX of Bregenz (d. 1079).
In late 1080 or early 1081 Ulrich married
Bertha of Rheinfelden
Bertha of Rheinfelden (also Bertha of Bregenz) (born c. 1065; d. after 1128), countess of Kellmünz, was the daughter of Rudolf of Rheinfelden and wife of Ulrich X, Count of Bregenz, Ulrich X of Bregenz.
Life
Bertha was the daughter of Rudolf of ...
, daughter of Rudolf of Rheinfelden. When he met Bertha, Ulrich was already betrothed to another woman, a daughter of Count Werner of Habsburg (d. 1096). Yet he and Bertha began an affair, and when her relatives found out, they compelled Ulrich to marry Bertha.
During the Investiture Contest, Ulrich was on the papal side, allied with Rudolf of Rheinfelden and Welf I, Duke of Bavaria. With the permission of
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Gregory VII ( la, Gregorius VII; 1015 – 25 May 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana ( it, Ildebrando di Soana), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 April 1073 to his death in 1085. He is venerated as a saint ...
He founded the abbey of
Mehrerau
Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey is a Cistercian territorial abbey and cathedral located at Mehrerau on the outskirts of Bregenz in Vorarlberg, Austria. Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey is directly subordinate to the Holy See and thus forms no part of the Cath ...
in Bregenz.
Ulrich was also engaged in a long-running dispute with the monastery of Petershausen over property in Bigenhausen which he had appropriated from the monks.
In 1097 Ulrich died while on a hunting trip in Prättigau. Members of the hunting party began rolling stones down a hill and Ulrich, in a show of bravado, tried and failed to jump one of the stones. He died from the injuries he sustained and his body was taken back to Bregenz for burial.
Children
With Bertha, Ulrich X had the following children:
* Rudolf I, Count of Bregenz
*Ulrich XI
*Henry of Kellmünz (d. 1128)
*Adelaide (d.28 June 1168), married Ulrich, count of Ramsperg and Hegau (d.c.1155)''Casus Monasterii Petrishusensis'', VI.20, p. 681.
Notes
References
*''Casus monasterii Petrishusensis'', ed. O. Abel and L. Weiland, MGH SS XX (1869), pp. 624–683
*''Historia monasterii Marchtelanensis'', MGH SS XXIX, pp. 660–683
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