Uta von Passau

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 9 February, about 1150.

The date is given by Cawley.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Ulrich, count of Finningen and Passau

This relationship is given by Cartellieri, by Loibl (p. 165), and by Cawley, who cites Fundatio Monasterii Baumburgenis (MGH SS XV 2, pp. 1061-2).

Mother: Adelheid von Lechsgemünd

This relationship is given by Cawley, who cites Fundatio Monasterii Baumburgenis (MGH SS XV 2, pp. 1061-2). Cartellieri names her Adelheid von Fontenhausen, and makes her the daughter of Kuno, count of Fontenhausen.

Spouse: Engelbert, duke of Carinthia

This relationship is given by Cartellieri, by Bühler (p. 67), by Loibl (p. 165), and by Cawley, who cites Fundatio Monasterii Baumburgenis (MGH SS XV 2, pp. 1061-2) and Die Kärntner Geschichtsquellen 811-1202 (654, p. 265).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Engelbert (died 6 October 1173), margrave of Istria and Tuscany, married Mathilde von Sulzbach.

Heinrich von Sponheim (died 3 January 1169), bishop of Troyes.

Ulrich (died April 1144), duke of Carinthia, married Judith von Baden.

Mathilde von Sponheim married Thibaut IV “le Grand”, count of Blois.

Rapoto (died 26 August 1186), count of Ortenburg, married Elisabeth von Sulzbach.

Hartwig von Sponheim (died 22 August 1164), bishop of Regensburg.

Ida von Sponheim (died 25 May 1178) married Guillaume, count of Nevers.

References

Sources

“Fundatio Monasterii Baumburgensis” in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum vol.15, part 2 (Hannover, 1888).

Die Kärntner Geschischtsquellen 811-1202 (Klagenfurt, 1904).

Literature

Bühler, Heinz. “Die Wittislinger Pfründen -- ein Schlüssel zur Besitzgeschichte Ostschwabens im Hochmittelalter” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996) pp. 25-73.

Cartellieri, Alexander. Philipp II. August, König von Frankreich (Band 4) (Leipzig, 1921; republished 1969).

Cawley, Charles. “UTA” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Loibl, Richard. Der Herrschaftsraum der Grafen von Vornbach und ihrer Nachfolger. (Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte: Munich, 1997).