Henry IV ( – 14 December 1123) was

Duke of Carinthia The Duchy of Carinthia (; ; ) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial State after the original German stem duchy, stem duc ...

and

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from 1122 until his death. He was the first ruler of those territories from the Rhenish

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. Henry was the eldest son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim (died 1096) and his wife, Hedwig, probably a

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n countess from Mossa.Peter Štih, Vasko Simoniti, Peter Vodopivec, ''Slovenska zgodovina'' (Ljubljana, 2016), 109,131-32. Engelbert had been a supporter of

Pope Gregory VII Pope Gregory VII (; 1015 – 25 May 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana (), 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 in the Catholic Church. One of the great ...

in the fierce

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and therefore had been divested of his county in the Bavarian

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by Emperor Henry IV in 1091. After the death of his godfather, Duke Henry III of Carinthia, the last ruler from the House of Eppenstein, he was enfeoffed with the Carinthian duchy and the Veronese march by Emperor

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281 ...

. He did, however, not inherit Henry's allodial lands, which passed to the Margrave Leopold of Styria, a member of the Traungau dynasty (

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). This resulted in the so-called ''provincia Graslupp'', that is, the estates of Neumarkt and Sankt Lambrecht as well as the

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region, which had previously belonged to the Carinthian county of

Friesach Friesach () is a historic town in the Sankt Veit an der Glan (district), Sankt Veit an der Glan district of Carinthia (state), Carinthia, Austria. First mentioned in an 860 deed, it is known as the oldest town in Carinthia. Geography Location Fri ...

, passing to the

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. Henry, like his predecessor, remained an opponent of Archbishop

Conrad I of Salzburg Conrad I f Abenberg(, c. 1075 – 9 April 1147) was Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria, in the first half of the 12th century. Born into the Abenberg- Frensdorf nobility, Conrad was raised for a clerical career at the court of Emperor Henry IV, whe ...

. He died within a year of taking the rule over Carinthia and was succeeded by his younger brother, Engelbert.

Sources

*Hausmann, Friedrich. "Die Grafen zu Ortenburg und ihre Vorfahren im Mannesstamm, die Spanheimer in Kärnten, Sachsen und Bayern, sowie deren Nebenlinien". ''Ostbairische Grenzmarken – Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte Kunst und Volkskunde'' 36 (1994): 9–62. *Brunner, Walter. "Das Werden der Landesgrenze gegen Kärnten und Salzburg". ''Das Werden der Steiermark''. Graz: Verlag Styria, 1980. *Ortenburg-Tambach, Eberhard Graf zu. ''Geschichte des reichsständischen, herzoglichen und gräflichen Gesamthauses Ortenburg'', vol. 1: Das herzogliche Haus in Kärnten. Vilshofen, 1931.

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{{Authority control Dukes of Carinthia 11th-century births 1123 deaths Year of birth uncertain