!!!Eppensteiner, Hochadelsgeschlecht

b. before 970, 
d. around 995, was the first Margrave of the march on the River Mur 
(Styria), the centre of which was the Hengistburg, connected with 4 
counties in Upper Styria. His son  Adalbero I, who had acquired huge 
properties in the area which they had cleared of virgin forest, became 
Margrave around 995 and Duke of Carinthia in 1012, but was removed 
from power in 1035 and died in 1039. Liutpold (d. 1090) was enfeoffed 
with the duchy of Carinthia and the Verona march by Heinrich IV in 
1077. Liutpold and his brother Heinrich wanted to extend their power 
in the directions of Bamberg, Salzburg, Istria, Aquileia and Carniola. 
They founded the monastery of St. Lambrecht between 1096 and 1103. 
After Heinrich's death, the family died out in 1122. Parts of the 
family's allodial property in Upper Styria fell to Heinrich's 
brother-in-law, Count  Otakar II  of the Traungau (d. 1122) and 
Otakar's son Leopold I "the Strong". Carinthia fell to the Counts of  
Sponheim, who were also related to the E. family by marriage. The heir 
was the last E.'s godson Heinrich; after his death in 1123 the eldest 
brother became Duke of Carinthia.

!Literature
G. Pferschy (ed.), Das Werden der Steiermark, 1980.



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