Meinhard (Carinthia) Kärnten (1238 - 1295)

Ancestors

Husband of Elisabeth (Wittelsbach) von Bayern — married 6 Oct 1258 in München, München, , Bayern, Germany

Descendants

Died 1 Nov 1295 at about age 57 in Greiffenberg, Carinthia

Biography

Meinhard II, Duke of Carinthia, Hertog van Karinthie

Birth: abt 1238

Death: 1295

Father Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol

Mother Adelheid of Tyrol

Graf von Görz (1258–1271) und (als Meinhard II.) Graf von Tirol (1258–1295), Herzog von Kärnten (1286–1295)

Note: Ancestor of Catherine of Aragon.

Married 1258 to Elisabeth of Wittelsbach (c. 1227–73), the daughter of Duke Otto II of Bavaria and widow of King Conrad IV of Germany.

Children:

• Elisabeth (1262–1312), married Albert of Habsburg, Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282, King of Germany from 1298
• Otto III (c. 1265–1310), Duke of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol, married Euphemia (c. 1278–1347), daughter of the Piast duke Henry V of Legnica
• Albert II, Count of Tyrol, died 1292, married Agnes of Hohenberg in 1281, daughter of Albert II of Hohenberg-Rotenburg (c. 1235–98), Count of Hohenberg and Haigerloch, who belonged to a cadet branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Their daughter, Margaret of Görz-Tyrol (died after 1348), married Frederick IV of Nuremberg, Burgrave of Nuremberg, (1287–1332).
• Louis, Duke of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol, died 1305
• Henry (c. 1270–1335), Duke of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol, married Anne Přemyslovna, daughter of the King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia; King of Bohemia in 1306 and 1307–10, father of Countess Margaret of Tyrol
• Agnes (died 1293), married the Wettin margrave Frederick of Meissen, a grandson of Emperor Frederick II; her only son Frederick the Lame predeceased his father.

Sources

• Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families. Carinthia, chap. 28C Grafen von Tirol (Görz) Meinhard von Görz. Online at for Medieval Genealogy Website (accessed 2017).
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meinhard,_Duke_of_Carinthia