Engelbert I von Sponheim

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Engelbert I from the House of Sponheim was Margrave of Istria, count of Spanheim and the Kraichgau and Vogt of Salzburg.
He was the eldest son of count Siegfried I of Spanheim and Richardis of Lavant, daughter of count Engelbert IV of Sieghardinger. He belonged to the Party of the southern Gregorianer with his brothers in the investiture controversy and fought the opposing Bishop Berthold of Henry IV. He was a follower of Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg in the 1085 and 1086.
Engelbert founded St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal on the site of their ancestral castle and on May 1 he gave the monks from Hirsau Abbey the Church and the convent of St. Paul.
In April 1095, Engelbert entered himself in his Foundation as a monk. There he died on April 1, 1096.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Engelbert II was the Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Istria and Carniola, Margrave of Verona, and from the House of Sponheim
Engelbert was the son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim and his wife Hedwi, perhaps the daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony.
About 1100 he established the County of Kraiburg on the inherited estates of his wife in Bavaria. Unlike his father, Engelbert II was a loyal supporter of the Salian dynasty. He stood as guarantor of German king Henry V at his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in February 1111 and witnessed the Concordat of Worms with Pope Callixtus II in September 1122. In the same year his elder brother Henry III was created Duke of Carinthia and upon his death in 1123 Engelbert II succeeded him, having already replaced Count Ulric II of Weimar as margrave in Istria and Carniola about 1107.
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens (findagrave.com)

Family/Spouse: Ute von Passau. Ute was born in 1080; died in 1153. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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French Nobility. Born around 1108 as the daughter of Engelbert II of Spanheim, Duke of Carinthia and Uta of Passau. Documents about her life are scarce. Around 1123 Norbert of Xanten and emissaries of Count Thibaut of Champagne met with Bishop Hartwig I of Regensburg to ask for the hand of the bishops niece. She and her husband founded the Abbaye de Pommeraie in 1151 which she later choose as her burial place. After Thibauts death she retired to Fontevraud where she died. Bio by: Lutetia (findagrave.com)

Mathilde married Count Thibaut II de Champagne in 1126. Thibaut (son of Count Stephen Henry of Blois and Countess Adela of Normandy) was born on 2 Apr 1090 in Blois, Département du Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France; died on 10 Jan 1152 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lagny-sur-Marne, Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Queen Consort. She was the youngest daughter of Thibaut IV de Blois and Mathilde of Carinthia. She married Louis VII on November 13th, 1160 in Paris, five weeks after his second wife Constance de Castille had died. They both liked each other and she had some influence on him. Louis married his daughters, Marie and Alix, from his first marriage to her brothers, Henri and Thibaut. In 1165 she gave birth to the longed for successor, Philippe. Two girls, Alix and Agnes, were born in 1170 and 1171. Following tradition Philippe was crowned king when he was fourteen. At this time Louis was very ill and Adèle hoped to act as a regent for him if Louis died suddenly. Philippe surprised everyone and claimed the power for himself and choose a wife without his parents consent. Her husband died in 1180 and Philippe became king. During his absence on the crusade she reigned the kingdom following strict rules set by him. After his return to France she quietly retired. Following her last wish she was buried in Pontigny instead of St. Denis

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32162741/ad%C3%A8le-de_blois-champagne

Adèle married King Louis VII Capet on 18 Oct 1160. Louis (son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide of Savoy) was born in 1120 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Saint-Pont, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Saint Denis Basilique, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Accession: 1180; King of France

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Philip II Augustus was the King of France from 1180 until his death. A member of the House of Capet, Philip Augustus was born at Gonesse in the Val-d'Oise, the son of Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne. He was originally nicknamed Dieudonné—the God-given—as he was the first son of Louis VII late in his father's life.
Philip was one of the most successful medieval French monarchs in expanding the royal demesne and the influence of the monarchy. He broke up the great Angevin Empire and defeated a coalition of his rivals (German, Flemish and English) at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214. He reorganized the government, bringing financial stability to the country and making possible a sharp increase in prosperity. His reign was popular with ordinary people because he checked the power of the nobles and passed some of it on to the growing middle class.
In declining health, Louis VII had him crowned and anointed at Rheims by the Archbishop William Whitehands on November 1, 1179. He was married on April 28, 1180 to Isabelle of Hainaut, who brought the County of Artois as her dowry. His father died on 20 September 1180.
Philip's eldest son, Louis, was born on 5 September 1187 and inherited Artois in 1190, when Isabelle, his mother, died.
Philip went on the Third Crusade (1189–1192) with Richard I of England (1189–99) and the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa (1155–90).
By the time Acre surrendered on July 12 1191, Philip was severely ill with dysentery which reduced his crusading zeal. Ties with Richard were further strained after the latter acted in a haughty manner after Acre had fallen.
Philip II Augustus died 14 July 1223 at Mantes and was interred in Saint Denis Basilica. Philip's son by Isabelle de Hainaut, Louis VIII, was his successor.


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65601035/philippe_ii-augustus-of_france

Philippe married Queen Isabelle de Hainaut on 28 Apr 1180. Isabelle (daughter of Count Baldwin V de Hainaut and Countess Marguerite I of Flanders) was born on 23 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France; died on 15 Mar 1190; was buried in Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Agnes de Maranie in Jun 1196. Agnes was born about 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Accession: 14 Jul 1223; King of France

Notes:

Louis VIII the Lion, was the son of Philip II Augustus, King of the Franks and Isabelle of Hainaut. Louis was the King of France from 1223 to 1226 and a member of the house of Capet, as he was a direct descendant of Hughes Capet circa 940–996.

His mother died in 1190, giving birth to twins sons, and Louis inherited her dowry and the title of Count of Artois, which he held until his father died, and the title reverted to the crown when Louis became King of France in 1223.

After lengthy negotiations between his father, Phillip, King of France and John Lackland, King of England, and as a condition of the Treaty of Le Goulet between these two, Louis was married on 23 May 1200, at the age of 12, to Richard's sister's daughter, Blanche of Castile, also 12 at the time and born in Spain. Her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitane, would cross the Pyrenees, bringing the girl from Spain to France. The marriage was finally consummated in 1205 and Blanche would bear the first of thirteen children.

When the English Barons rebelled against King John Lackland of England, they offered the throne to Louis, who was able to land at the Isle of Thanet with an army in May of 1216 and march to London with very little resistance. There, Louis was proclaimed king by his supporters, including King Alexander II of Scotland. Louis captured Winchester in June, but when King John died in October, the barons turned their favors to John's son, Henry III, even thought he was only nine years old. English forces led by William Marshall finally forced Louis to the Treaty of Lambeth in September of 1217, Louis promising not to attack England, agreeing that he really never was king, and Louis was given a compensation of 10,000 marks.

King Philip died on July 14, 1223, Louis was coronated August 6th at the cathedral at Reims. Louis would continue to battle his father's enemies, resulting in the capture of Avignon and Languedoc, yet he reversed his father's ruling of usury for Jews, creating havoc for both the church and the barons who were in disagreement as some were profiting from the lending. The conflicts would continue until Louis's death on November 8th, 1226 during his travels from the chateau at Montpensier, Puy-de-Dome Auvergne back to Paris. His son, Louis IX succeeded him on the throne.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66211839/louis_viii-capet

Family/Spouse: Blanche. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Henri I de Brabant on 22 Apr 1213 in Soissons, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France. Henri was born in 1165 in Brabant, Belgium; died on 5 Sep 1235 in K. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elisabeth married Thierry de Cleves on 19 Mar 1233. Thierry was born in 1214 in Dinslaken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mathilde married Gerard de Luxembourg in 1253. Gerard was born in 1234. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]