Adalbero of Eppenstein ( – 28 November 1039
) was
Duke of Carinthia
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and
Margrave of Verona from 1011 or 1012 until 1035.
Biography
Adalbero was the son of the
Bavarian count Markward of
Eppenstein, who around 970 had married Hadmud, a daughter of Count Adalbero of
Ebersberg
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and ruled as
Margrave of Styria. About 1000 Adalbero succeeded his father as Styrian margrave. He was married to Beatrix, probably a daughter of Duke
Herman II of Swabia from the
Conradine dynasty and sister-in-law of the later
Salian
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After the death of the last Ottonian ...
emperor
Conrad II.
Upon the death of the Salian duke
Conrad I in 1011, the German king
Henry II
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enfeoffed Adalbero with Carinthia. Adalbero's Carinthian dominions then included the
March of Carniola
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, the
Windic March and the rule over the vast
March of Verona
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stretching from the
Trentino
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up to the
Isonzo River. Late Duke Conrad's son and heir,
Conrad the Younger was a minor when his father died and therefore was not taken into account, becoming a bitter rival.
The tide began to turn when the
Ottonian dynasty
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became extinct with the death of Emperor Henry II in 1024 and the Salian
scion Conrad II was
elected his successor. Initially Adalbero sought a good relationship, he even acted as the emperor's swordsman at a 1027
synod
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in
Frankfurt
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and during the coronation of Conrad's son
Henry III as
King of the Romans
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in
Aachen
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at Easter 1028. However, after the court diet on 18 May 1035 Duke Adalbero was forced to renounce all his offices and fiefdoms.
Nevertheless, the
Freising
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Location
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bishop
Egilbert, a councillor to Conrad's son King Henry III, advised the
Princes
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and Henry himself to not recognise the deposition. Despite this, Adalbert lost his duchy and the march of Carantania, though the duchy would remain vacant until 2 February 1036. Furious, he began a bloody revenge campaign against the Salian liensmen in Carinthia, thereby killing Count William of
Friesach, the husband of Saint
Hemma of Gurk
Hemma of Gurk (; 27 June 1045),29 June according t also called Emma of Gurk (), was a noblewoman and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia. Buried at Gurk Cathedral since 1174, she was beatified on 21 November 12 ...
. Finally he had to retire to the Bavarian estates of his mother in Ebersberg, where he died in 1039.
The large Eppenstein estates in Carinthia were held by his eldest son Markward IV, whose sons
Liutold and
Henry
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went on to rule over the duchy from 1077 to 1122.
Marriage and children
Adalbero married to Beatrix of Swabia (died February 23 after 1125), probably a daughter of the
Conradine duke
Herman II. Among their children were:
*Markward IV of Eppenstein (d. 1076), father of
Liutold of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1077 to 1090, and
Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122
*Adalbero of Eppenstein,
Bishop of Bamberg
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from 1053 to 1057
*Willibirg (?), married Margrave
Ottokar I of Styria
References
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Dukes of Carinthia
980s births
1039 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Carinthia
10th-century people from the Holy Roman Empire