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Engelbert II Von Sponheim

Birth
Carinthia, Austria
Death
12 Apr 1141 (aged 45–46)
Seeon-Seebruck, Landkreis Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany
Burial
Seeon-Seebruck, Landkreis Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany Add to Map
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Engelbert II was the Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Istria and Carniola, Margrave of Verona, and from the House of Sponheim

Engelbert was the son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim and his wife Hedwi, perhaps the daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony.

He married Uta, daughter of Burgrave Ulric of Passau and the had the following children:
* Ulric I, succeeded his father in Carinthia
* Engelbert III, succeeded his father in Istria, Carniola and Kraiburg
* Henry, Bishop of Troyes
* Matilda, married Count Theobald the Great of Blois-Champagne
* Rapoto I, Count of Ortenburg and Kraiburg
* Adelheid, Abbess of Göss
* Hartwig II, Bishop of Regensburg
* Ida, married Count William III of Nevers

About 1100 he established the County of Kraiburg on the inherited estates of his wife in Bavaria. Unlike his father, Engelbert II was a loyal supporter of the Salian dynasty. He stood as guarantor of German king Henry V at his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in February 1111 and witnessed the Concordat of Worms with Pope Callixtus II in September 1122. In the same year his elder brother Henry III was created Duke of Carinthia and upon his death in 1123 Engelbert II succeeded him, having already replaced Count Ulric II of Weimar as margrave in Istria and Carniola about 1107. (Paragraph copied Wikipedia by JF)

Engelbert II died at Seeon Abbey where he is buried.
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens
Engelbert II was the Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Istria and Carniola, Margrave of Verona, and from the House of Sponheim

Engelbert was the son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim and his wife Hedwi, perhaps the daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony.

He married Uta, daughter of Burgrave Ulric of Passau and the had the following children:
* Ulric I, succeeded his father in Carinthia
* Engelbert III, succeeded his father in Istria, Carniola and Kraiburg
* Henry, Bishop of Troyes
* Matilda, married Count Theobald the Great of Blois-Champagne
* Rapoto I, Count of Ortenburg and Kraiburg
* Adelheid, Abbess of Göss
* Hartwig II, Bishop of Regensburg
* Ida, married Count William III of Nevers

About 1100 he established the County of Kraiburg on the inherited estates of his wife in Bavaria. Unlike his father, Engelbert II was a loyal supporter of the Salian dynasty. He stood as guarantor of German king Henry V at his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in February 1111 and witnessed the Concordat of Worms with Pope Callixtus II in September 1122. In the same year his elder brother Henry III was created Duke of Carinthia and upon his death in 1123 Engelbert II succeeded him, having already replaced Count Ulric II of Weimar as margrave in Istria and Carniola about 1107. (Paragraph copied Wikipedia by JF)

Engelbert II died at Seeon Abbey where he is buried.
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens


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