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The Counts of Ortenburg (German: Grafen von Ortenburg) were a comital family in the mediaeval Duchy of Carinthia. Though they had roots in Bavarian nobility, an affiliation with the Imperial Counts of Ortenburg , a branch line of the Rhenish Franconian House of Sponheim , is not established.
The Imperial County of Ortenburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Lower Bavaria, Germany. It was located on the lands around Ortenburg Castle, about 10 km (6 mi) west of Passau.
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Elisabeth de Cillia. daughter. Anna of Celje. daughter. Louis of Celje. son. Barbara of Cilli, Holy Roman Emp... daughter. priležnica. partner. Hermann III of Cilli. son. Catherine of Bosnia, Countess-Co... mother. Hermann I Count von Celje, count. father. John de Cillia. brother.
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Ulrich II was the son of Count Frederick II of Celje and his wife Elizabeth, a scion of the Croatian House of Frankopan and a grand daughter of Francesco I da Carrara, lord of Padua. Little is known of his youth. On 20 April 1434 he married Kantakuzina Katarina Branković, daughter of Đurađ Branković, despot of Serbia., and the sister of Mara Branko...
At the time of his death, Ulrich held around 12 towns, 30 market towns and 125 castles: around 20 in Carinthia, Carniola, and Slavonia each, and the rest mostly in Styria.He owned around a third of all castles in modern-day Slovenia at the time. Some of his most important possessions are listed below.
On 20 April 1434, Ulrich married Princess Katarina Brankovic of Serbia. She was a daughter of Despot Đurađ Branković of Serbia and Princess Eirene Kantakouzene of Byzantium. Through this marriage, Ulrich became the brother-in-law of the Ottoman sultan Murad II.Ulrich and Katarina had five children, all of whom died before their parents: 1. Herman I...
The Imperial County of Ortenburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Lower Bavaria, Germany. It was located on the lands around Ortenburg Castle, about 10 km (6 mi) west of Passau.
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Jan 16, 2012 · Though the Counts of Ortenburg - formerly Ortenberg - emerged in the 12th century as a cadet branch of the Rhenish House of Sponheim (Spanheim) who then ruled over the Duchy of Carinthia, an affiliation with the Carinthian Ortenburger comital family is unverifiable. The first Count Rapoto I of Ortenburg was mentioned about 1134.
