Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia

Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia, nicknamed Meinhard the Elder (c. 1160 – 1231) was a member of the Meinhardiner dynasty. He was a ruling Count of Gorizia and Vogt of Aquileia.

He was a son of Margrave Engelbert II and his wife, Adelaide of Scheyen-Dachau-Valley, a daughter of Count Otto I of Dachau-Vallay, an early member of the House of Wittelsbach.

He is known to have taken part in the German Crusade of 1197. He laid witness to the death of his friend, Frederick of Austria with Wolfger, Bishop of Passau, Eberhard, Count of Dörnberg, Ulrich of Eppan and Frederick's closest attendant on 16 April 1198 at Acre.^[1]

Meinhard II married three times:

1. Kunigunde, a daughter of Count Conrad I of Peilstein, a member of the Sieghardinger dynasty, from whom the Meinhardiner claimed to descend.
2. Adelaide, about whom little is known
3. a daughter of Count Henry I of Tyrol

From these marriages he had several children, but none of them survived childhood.

In 1220, Meinhard II succeeded his brother Englebert III as Count of Gorizia. He died in 1231 and was succeeded by his nephew Meinhard III.

References

External links

• Entry at GenMa
• Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the Meinhardiner dynasty". Genealogy.EU. 

Bibliography

• Baum, Wilhelm (2000). Die Grafen von Görz in der europäischen Politik des Mittelalters. Kitab. ISBN 978-3902005045. 
• Juritsch, Georg (1894). Geschichte der Babenberger und ihrer Länder, 976-1246. Innsbruck: Wagnerschen Universitätsbuchhandlung. 
• Pizzinini, Meinrad (2015). Die Grafen von Görz. Haymon Verlag. ISBN 978-3852187013.