Ulrich X (also called Ulric or Udalrich) ( –1097) was
Count of Bregenz
The county of Bregenz is recorded as part of the Holy Roman Empire between 1043 and 1160. It was in possession of the Udalriching family, who took the titles of counts of Bregenz.
After 1160, Bregenz fell to the counts of Montfort-Bregenz (1160 ...
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, daughter of
Rudolf of Rheinfelden
Rudolf of Rheinfelden ( – 15 October 1080) was Duke of Swabia from 1057 to 1079. Initially a follower of his brother-in-law, the Salian emperor Henry IV, his election as German anti-king in 1077 marked the outbreak of the Great Saxon Revolt an ...
. 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
The Investiture Controversy, also called Investiture Contest (German: ''Investiturstreit''; ), was a conflict between the Church and the state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops (investiture) and abbots of monast ...
, Ulrich was on the papal side, allied with Rudolf of Rheinfelden and
Welf I, Duke of Bavaria
Welf I (c. 1035/10406 November 1101) was Duke of Bavaria from 1070 to 1077 and from 1096 to his death. He was the first member of the Welf branch of the House of Este. In the genealogy of the Elder House of Welf, he is counted as Welf IV.
Bio ...
. With the permission of
Pope Gregory VII He founded the abbey of
Mehrerau 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
The Prättigau, in the canton of Graubünden (Grisons), Switzerland, is the geographical region consisting of the main valley of the river Landquart and the valleys of its side-rivers and creeks. Landquart River, which drains into the Alpine Rhi ...
. 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
Rudolf I (1081 – 27 April 1160) was Count of Bregenz, Count of Chur and Count of Lower Raetia from 1097 to his death in 1160. He may well be claimed as the first ruler of a united Vorarlberg.
Life
Rudolf I was the son of Ulrich X of Bregenz an ...
*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
*
Berthold of Zwiefalten, ''Chronicon'', in L. Wallach, ‘Berthold of Zwiefalten's Chronicle,’ ''Traditio'' 13 (1957), pp. 187–233.
* A.I. Beach, ''The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany'' (Cambridge, 2017).
* J. Zösmair, ‘Geschichte Rudolfs des letzten der alten Grafen von Bregenz (1097–1160),’ ''Schriften des Vereins für Geschichte des Bodensees und seiner Umgebung'', 44 (1915), 25–39.
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1097 deaths
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