Ulric I (), also ''Odalric'' or ''Udalrich'' (died 6 March 1070), Count of

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, was

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from 1045 and of

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from 1060 to his death.

Life

Ulric was the son of Margrave

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and Hadamut, daughter of Count Werigand of Friuli and Istria. He succeeded his father upon his death before 1044. Ulric married Sophia, the daughter of King

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and his first wife, Richeza, sister of the Polish duke

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. Alternatively, it has been suggested that she was the daughter of Béla and his second wife, Tuta of Formbach, and thereby a sister of King

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. Another alternative hypothesis makes her the daughter of Tuta and King Peter of Hungary, but that seems highly unlikely. Sophia had been betrothed to Margrave William of Meissen, but upon his early death in 1062 married his nephew Ulric instead. She gave her first husband four children: * Poppo II (d. 1098), his successor as Margrave of Carniola, Margrave of Istria from 1096, married Richgard, daughter of Count Engelbert of Sponheim * Ulric II (d. 1112), his brother's successor, married Adelaide, daughter of Landgrave

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*Richgard, married Count

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or his brother Count

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*Adelaide, married firstly Frederick, ''

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'' of

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, and secondly Udalschalk, Count in the Lurngau *Walburga On 31 July 1064, King

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donated land ('in the country of Istria ... in the county of Margrave Ulric') to ('the prefect Ulric, margrave'). Again on 5 March 1067, Henry donated land ('in the country of Istria in the march of Margrave Ulric'), this time to the church in

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. Ulric was recorded as ('Ulric, margrave of the Carinthians') on his death. A loyal supporter of the Imperial

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and backed by his Hungarian brothers-in-law, Ulric was able to enlarge his margraviate down to

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, against the resistance of the

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and the

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* {{Authority control 1070 deaths Margraves of Istria Margraves of Carniola Year of birth unknown 11th-century military history of Croatia