Re: Counts of Friesach


"mike" <dmike204@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Group
>
> Does anyone know the ancestry and descent of the Counts of Friesach in
> the 11th century. It was part of the German empire, now Slovenia. Did
> the line become extinct with St.Hemma (d.1044) and her son William II?

The information you have found appears to be misleading. Friesach was within
the lands of a comital dynasty, but they are usually referred to as counts
of the Upper Salzburggau, or counts in Carinthia, rather than of Friesach in
particular.

According to Franz Tyroller [in _Genealogische Tafeln zur mitteleuropäischen
Geschichte_, edited by Wilhelm Wegener (Göttingen, 1962-1969), 118-120 &
table 7], Count William I is recorded in Carinthia in 923/4, William II in
959/63. The latter was father of William III (died 29 September ca 1010,
whose wife was Leopirgis (died 20 August, year unknown) and a younger son
named Liutold I (occurring in 963).

William III & Leopirgis were parents of William IV and Liutold II. William
IV was also margrave on the Sann - he was murdered on 20 March 1036. His
wife was the Hemma you have as dying in 1044, but only the date of her death
(29 June) is recorded and not the year. She outlived her husband and both
their sons, Hartwig and William V (who is usually called count of Friesach),
leaving no further descendants. Hemma was described as countess of Friesach
& Traunkirchen ("comitissa de Frisaco et de Truhsen") in an account of
Balduin, archbishop of Salzburg (1042/60). She is sometimes called Hemma of
Gurk from her notice in a necrology of Salzburg cathedral ("Hemma comitissa
de Gurka").

Liutold II married a lady called Willibirg, whose mother had the same name,
and they were ancestors of the counts of Plain and Hardeck: this line became
extinct in the late 13th century.

Peter Stewart


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