Draft:House of Formbach/Fornbach

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The County of Formbach, known in recent scholarship as Vornbach, was a medieval county with the capital Vornbach (today part of Neuhaus am Inn) near Passau.

History

Since at least the 10th century, the county had been in the hands of a family that exercised lordship rights in Traungau. Around 1050, the seat of the county was moved from Vornbach Castle a few kilometres down to Neuburg. In the following years, the county was therefore called Neuburg.

In addition to Vornbach Castle, the family of the Counts of Formbach also owned the nearby fortifications of Schärding, Neuburg, Wernstein and Wimberg. The Counts of Formbach founded Vornbach Abbey in 1094 and died out in 1158 with Ekbert III of Neuburg. The estates were mainly inherited by the Counts of Andechs and the Otakare.

The Counts of Formbach were related and related to the Luitpoldings, the Brunons and the Wettins; In addition to Traungau, they ruled for a time in the Schweinachgau and the Künziggau, and they were also bailiffs of the diocese of Regensburg, the monasteries of Göttweig and Sankt Nikola near Passau.

Counts of Formbach/Wels-Lambach/Pitten

• Meginhard I, c. 930, Count of Traungau
• Meginhard II, Count, Vogt of Niederalteich, 944–955/963
• Arnold I, Count of the Traun (zu Lambach), Count of Rotagau, 8 February 1018, † c. 1020
• Aribo of Ennsburg, 1030
• Arnold II, Count of Wels-Lambach, 1035 Margrave in the Carinthian Mark, † 1050 ⚭ Regininde of Verdun, † 1050
• Arnold III of Wels-Lambach, † 1050 ⚭ Hazacha (Haziga)
• Adalbero (c. 1010-1090), Bishop of Würzburg 1045–1088
• Mathilde ⚭ Ratpoto IV, Count of Cham
• Gottfried, von Pitten, † 1050, Count of Lambach, 1041 Co-Margrave in the Carinthian Mark
• Udalrich I, count 947–970
• Bertold, Count of Lurngau 1000–1005
• Meginhard III, Count (in Traungau) 1030
• Pilgrim, monk in St. Emmeran Monastery
• Tiemo I, † after 1025 in Reichenhall, Count of Quinzingau
• Heinrich (Hesso) I., † probably 1030 ⚭ Himiltrud
• Tuta von Formbach, * 1037, † around 1100 ⚭ King Bélas I of Hungary, ⚭ Engelbrecht III, Count of the Puster Valley and Count Palatine in Carinthia
• Himiltrud, founder of Vornbach Abbey, † after 1070
• Hermann III (d. 1030_
• Tiemo II (Dietmar) II, (d. 1040), Count of Quinzingau
• Meginhard IV, Count, Vogt of Niederaltaich, † 1066
• Sophia of Formbach
• Ulrich III (Udalrich III), † 1097, 1074 Count of Ratelnberg,[2] 1095–1097 Count of Windberg, Vogt of Göttweig ⚭ Matilde
• Luitgard, ⚭ Frederick II, Cathedral Vogt of Regensburg, † 1134
• Dietrich I, canon in Bamberg
• Hermann I of Winzenburg, † 1137/1138, Vogt of Göttweig, 1097 Count of Windberg, 1107 Count of Ratelnberg,[2] 1108 Founder of Reinhausen (near Göttingen), 1109 Count of Winzenburg, 1112 Margrave of Meissen, 1114 Count Palatine of Saxony, Vogt of Göttweig ⚭ Hedwig von Assel
• Beatrix II (Quedlinburg), (d. 1160), abbess of Quedlinburg
• Matilde, † c. 1155 ⚭ Udo von Freckleben, Margrave of the Nordmark, † 1130
• Sophie, † 1160 ⚭ Albrecht the Bear, Duke of Saxony, † 18 November 1170
• Heinrich von Winzenburg, † 1146, count of Asle ⚭ Eufemia von Vohburg, ⚭ 1144 Richenza von Immenhausen
• Sofie (d. before 1171) ⚭ Rottmann I, Count of Himstedt
• Otto von Winzenburg, † 1171/74, count of Assel ⚭ Salome von Heinsberg, † after 1185
• Adelheid, † 1185 ⚭ Adolf III, Count of Schauenburg-Holstein, † 1225
• Hermann II of Winzenburg (d. 1152), 1125 Count of Winzenburg, 1129 Margrave of Meissen, deposed in 1130, 1139 of Plesse and Margrave, 1147 Vogt of Corvey ⚭ Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1143); ⚭ 1148, Luitgard von Stade (d. 1152)
• N.N., daughter (1149-1204) ⚭ 1170, Count Henry III of Schwarzenburg, † 1184 ⚭ Count Ulrich of Wettin
• N.N., daughter (b. 1150) ⚭ Duke Magnus Boris in Denmark
• Hedwig (b. 1151), supposedly provost of Gandersheim
• Bruno, 1064–1066 Count of Künziggau,
• Ekbert I (d. 1109), around 1070 Count of Formbach, 1067 Count of Künziggau, 1094 founder of Vornbach ⚭ Abbey N.N. ⚭ Mathilde von Lambach, † 1090
• Eberhard, 1095–1100 (d. c. 1100)
• Dietmar, Abbot of Ossiach
• Ekbert II, 1113 Count of Formbach, 1120 of Pitten, 1142 Count of Pitten, † 1144 ⚭ Willibirg (daughter of Margrave Ottokar II of Styria), † 1145
• Ekbert III, † 1158, 1148 Count of Pitten, 1151 Count of Neuburg am Inn
• Kunigunde (d. 1152) ⚭ 1135, Bertold II, Count of Andechs (d. 1151) ⚭ Ulrich III of Deggendorf and Pernegg
• Mathilde (d. 1160) ⚭ Count Bertold II of Bogen (d. 1167)
• Ekbert von Deggendorf
• Benedikta (?) ⚭ Wernhard von Julbach
• Henry II, Count, 1070, Vogt of St. Nikola ⚭ Adelheid of Perg and Machland
• Gebhard, count of Formbach
• Benedikta ⚭ Gebhard von Ollersbach
• Benedikta ⚭ Wernhard I of Julbach
• Dietrich von Ollersbach
• Dietrich II, † 1145, 1115 Count of Viechtenstein, Count of Formbach, Count of Kreuzenstein ⚭ Adelheid, daughter of Margrave Leopold II of Austria
• Hedwig, † 1170 ⚭ Count Engelbert von Wasserburg, Hallgraf in Reichenhall, † 1161
• Ulrich II (Udalrich) von Formbach, 1040/c. 1055
• Frederick (d. 1060) ⚭ 1056 Gertrude, daughter of Count Konrad von Haldensleben (d. 1116)
• Hedwig ⚭ Graf Gebhard von Supplinburg, † 1075, ⚭ Duke Dietrich of Upper Lorraine, † 1115
• Emperor Lothar (1125-1137)
• Ida (d. 1138) ⚭ Count Sieghard X of Burghausen (d. 1104)
• Simon, Duke of Lorraine from this house are the descendants of the House of Fornbacher.

Please see House of Fornbacher Other family members St. Adalbero, † 1090, son of Arnold II, Bishop of Würzburg 1045–1088 Tiemo, † 1102, son of Tiemo II, Archbishop of Salzburg 1090–1102 Ida von Formbach (or Itha von Ratelnberg), † after 1101, daughter of Tiemo II, wife of Duke Leopold II of Austria (assignment uncertain, as she is also attributed to the Counts of Cham.) Tuta of Formbach, daughter of Henry I, founder of Suben Abbey and wife of the Hungarian king Béla I († 1063) Himiltrud, daughter of Henry I, founder of the collegiate monastery of Vornbach Hedwig von Formbach, daughter of Friedrich and Gertrud von Haldensleben; ⚭ probably I Count Heinrich; ⚭ II Gerhard of Süpplingenburg (X 9 June 1075 near Homburg), 1062 Count in the Harzgau (Supplinburger); ⚭ III Dietrich, Duke of Upper Lorraine from 1090 († 30 December 1115) (House of Châtenois) – Hedwig of Formbach is therefore the mother of Emperor Lothar III. Beatrix, † 1160, daughter of Hermann I of Winzenburg, abbess of Quedlinburg 1138–1160 Dietrich II, † 1127, son of Hermann I of Winzenburg, Bishop of Münster 1118–1127 Mechtild, † probably 1155, daughter of Hermann I of Winzenburg, wife of Count Udo V of Stade, Margrave of the Nordmark, † 1130 (Udonen) References Josef Hofbauer: Die Grafschaft Neuburg am Inn. (= Historischer Atlas von Bayern. Part of Old Bavaria. Reihe 1, Heft 20). Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, München 1969, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 (Zugleich: München, Universität, Dissertation, 1966) (Digitalisat). Richard Loibl: Der Herrschaftsraum der Grafen von Vornbach und ihrer Nachfolger. Studien zur Herrschaftsgeschichte Ostbayerns im hohen Mittelalter (= Historischer Atlas von Bayern. Part of Old Bavaria. Reihe 2, Heft 5, 1). Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, München 1997, ISBN 3-7696-9695-6 (Zugleich: München, Universität, Dissertation, 1993). Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln. New Episode Volume 16: Bavaria and Franconia. Stargardt, Marburg 1995, ISBN 3-465-02741-8, T. 37. Kamillo Trotter: Die Grafen von "Lambach" und "Formbach". In: Otto Dungern (ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch zur bairisch-österreichischen Geschichte. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1931, pp. 37–51. Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Stammbaum der Grafen von Winzenburg aus dem Formbachschen Haus in Bayern, Thiemo I, Hessische Landesgeschichte Band 2, Barrentrapp und Wenner, Frankfurt und Leipzig 1797, S. 733 (books.google.de) References

Trotter: Die Grafen von "Lambach" und "Formbach". In: Otto Dungern (ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch zur bairisch-österreichischen Geschichte. 1931, pp. 37–51.

Franz Tyroller: Genealogy of the old Bavarian nobility in the High Middle Ages. In: Wilhelm Wegener: Genealogische Tafeln zur mitteleuropäischen Geschichte. Heinz Reise, Göttingen 1962, pp. 47–611.

The County of Ratelnberg refers to the present-day villages of Oberradlberg and Unterradlberg, incorporated into Sankt Pölten. The nearby Göttweig Abbey was ruled by the Ratelnbergers.