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The
House of Andechs was a feudal line of princes in 12th and 13th century.
The family was originally from bavarian
Andechs. Wittelsbach-related counts of
Dießen-Andechs (1135 to 1180) obtained territiories in Northern Dalmatia,
Adriatic seacoast, became Margraves of
Istria and ultimately Dukes with a country name
Merania which derives from Latin
mer (sea).
They held the
Duchy of Merania from 1180 to 1248.
Otto II of Andechs was bishop of Bamberg in 1177–1196. In 1208, when
Philip of Swabia, King of the Germans, was assassinated at Bamberg by
Otto of Wittelsbach, members of the house of Andechs were implicated.
Saint
Hedwig of Andechs (c. 1174 – October 1243) was one of eight children born to
Berthold IV, Duke of Merania, Count of Dießen-Andechs and
Margrave of Istria. Of her four brothers, two became bishops, Ekbert of
Bamberg (1203 – 1231), and Berthold,
Patriarch of Aquileia.
Otto succeeded his father as Duke of Dalmatia, and Heinrich became Margrave of Istria. Of her three sisters,
Gertrude of Andechs-Merania (1185–September 24, 1213) was the first wife of
Andrew II of Hungary and the mother of St
Elizabeth of Hungary; Mechtilde became Abbess of Kitzingen; while Agnes, a famous beauty, was made the illegitimate third wife of
Philip II of France in 1196, on the repudiation of his lawful wife, Ingeborg, but was dismissed in 1200, after
Pope Innocent III laid France under an interdict.
The dukes of Merania went extinct in the direct male line in
1248. A history of the house of Andechs was written by
Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, the historian-statesman, and published in 1796.
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