Count in Kraichgau
Count in Pusteral
Count of Sponheim
Events
Date of Birth: about 1036 - 1038.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The estimated date is given by Hausmann (p. 149).
Date of Death: 1 April 1096.
Place of Death: Sankt Paul im Lavanttal.
The place and date are given by Hausmann (p. 150).
Relationships
Father: Siegfried, count of Sponheim
This relationship is given by Cartellieri and by Hausmann.
Mother: Richgard of "Lavant"
This relationship is given by Cartellieri and by Hausmann.
Spouse: Hedwig
This relationship is given by Cartellieri and by Hausmann. Hausmann (p. 151) argues that Franz Tyroller's suggestion that she was the daughter of Bernhardt II of Saxony must be mistaken. Landi suggests that she was a daughter of Henry of Gorizia (died 1102). Hedwig died 1 June, after 1100.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Engelbert (died 1141), duke of Carinthia, married Uta von Passau.
Richgard von Sponheim married (1) Berthold von Regensburg; married (2) Poppo II, margrave of Carniola and Istria; married (3) Gebhard von Wasserburg.
Hartwig von Sponheim, bishop of Regensburg.
Siegfried von Sponheim married (1) Hildburg; married (2) Adelheid.
Bernhard von Sponheim (died 16 November 1147), married Kunigunde of Styria.
Heinrich III (died 13 December 1123), duke of Carinthia.
References
Sources
“Fundatio Monasterii Sancti Pauli in Carinthia” in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum vol.15, part 2 (Hannover, 1888).
Literature
Cartellieri, Alexander. Philipp II. August, König von Frankreich (Band 4) (Leipzig, 1921; republished 1969).
Hausmann, Friedrich. “Siegfried, Markgraf der ‘Ungarnmark’ und die Anfänge der Spanheimer in Kärnten und im Rheinland” in Jahrbuch für Landeskunde von Niederösterreich 43 (1977), pp. 115-169.
Landi, Walter. “Die Stifterfamilie von Sonnenburg. Untersuchungen zur Genealogie der Grafen von Pustertal in ottonischer und frühsalischer Zeit und zu ihren Nachkommen in Bayern, Kärnten und Friaul” in Nearchos, 20 (2012).