!!!Tiroler Grafen

Tiroler Grafen  (Tyrolean Counts), named after a castle in the 
Southern Tyrol (today: "Schloss Tirol"). Albert and Berthold von Tyrol 
are first mentioned in a document from around 1140. Around 1150, ruled 
over the territory that surrounded their family castle near 
Meran/Merano as well as over Freising in Bavaria and areas in the Jaun 
valley in Carinthia. From the first half of the 12th century onwards, 
the family exercised their rights as counts in the Vintschgau (fiefs 
of the bishops of Trento) and were Vogts of Trento and  acquired half 
of the county around Bozen/Bolzano in 1170. After the fall of Heinrich 
von Andechs,  Albert III of the Tyrol (d. 1253) became Vogt of 
Brixen/Bressanone and acquired territories in the Inn, Puster and 
Eisack valleys in 1210. His daughter Elisabeth married Otto II von  
Andechs-Meranien, his daughter Adelheid became the wife of Meinhard 
III of Gorizia; consequently the inheritance of the Tyrolean Counts 
was passed on to the  Meinhardiner family because there were no male 
successors.

!Literature
J. Riedmann, in: J. Fontana et al., Geschichte Ti., 
vol. 1, 1985; Eines Fuersten Traum. Meinhard II. - Das 
Werden Ti., exhibition catalogue, Tirol Palace/Stams 1995.


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