!!!Otakar III

b. 1124, 
d. Dec. 31, 1164, Margrave of Styria (1129-1164), grandson of  Otakar 
II, father of  Otakar IV, member of the  Otakare dynasty. Founder of 
the principality of Styria, inherited from the Marburg line of the  
Sponheim parts of Lower Styria from the River Drau up to the River 
Save (now Slovenia) and from his uncle, the last Count of Formbach, 
the Mark of Pitten in Lower Austria in 1158. O. extended the road 
across the Semmering, established a hospital (Spital am Semmering) in 
1160 and ended the colonisation of the area along the Rivers Traisen 
and Goelsen. Held the rights to mineral resources, extended his 
sovereignty, minted his own coins and in 1163 founded the monastery of 
Vorau in the Wechselgau, Styria and the Carthusian monastery of Seitz 
in Lower Styria. In the 2nd crusade he brought back artists from 
Byzantium (St. John's Chapel Puergg).



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