We continue with the book by Georg Juritsch, which is a staggering 750+ pages long. We are speaking about Geschichte der Babenberger und ihrer Länder (976-1246), published in Innsbruck with Wagner in 1894.
Markgrave Heinrich I (994-1018)
994 Wolfgang of Regensburg also died (25). He had been a champion of Christianity in the Eastern marches and especially in Hungary. The Hungarian ruler Geisas and his wife Sarolt were supportive of the Christianization. Wenn Gaisas son Waik (995) took over the rulership, he turned to Bavaria not Constantinople, requesting the hand of Gisela, the daughter of the Bavarian duke Heinrich who had just died, to accept Christianity completely. As a result (26), Stefan I (995-1038) becomes the first Hungarian Christian king.
The new bishop of Passau, Christian (24), had the emperor Otto III reaffirm all his privileges in 999 (27), including market, mint, weight and toll rights. It was not always clear who influenced which abbey, however; Duke Heinrich II of Bavaria placed abbots in Altaich and Tegernsee, much to the annoyance of the Bishop of Freising (28). The Benedictine rule of Altaich is spread in its reform, as the other abbeys request monks from there to become abbot with them, for example, Lanthbert in Ostrow founded by Boleslaw der Fromme.
The Northern March of the Babenberger, under Markgrave Heinrich, had been promised Bavaria if Duke Heinrich of Bavaria, a cousin of Otto III, was elected king. The election took place in 1002, but the Markgrave did not receive Bavaria. This disappointment could not be fixed with extensive land donations: a complex of grounds between Liesing and Triesting, 20 Huben between Kamp and March. The Northern Markgrave still established connections with the Polish Duke Boleslaw. The insurrection (30) pulled in the Babenberger Ernst, who had assisted in the battle against Arduin in 1002 in Italy, and the brother of the new king, Bruno von Augsburg.
The Northern March was horribly devastated in this conflict, Heinrich was captured, as was Ernst, and would have been executed without the intervention of Willigis von Mainz. Heinrich III of Lützelburg received the Bavarian duchy instead (31), even if the capture of Prague in 1004 (30) lead to the release of the Babenberger (31).
Luitpold's son Poppo had studied in Regensburg to be ready for a church position (31), and moved on to St Emmeran afterwards (32). When Heinrich II founded a new bishopric in Bamberg, which was to be a pattern institution, he made his chancellor Eberhard the bishop (32) and Poppo the cathedral provost (33).
(rck Juritsch sees the hanging of St Coloman, whom he calls a pilgrim from Palestine, in Stockerau during this time as an indicator that the popular justice of the people continues in spite of the jurisdiction of the markgrave.)
1014 the corpse of Coloman is transferred to Melk and then the miracles begin (34).
In spite of his involvement in the insurrection, Count Ernst was allowed to marry the older sister of Duke Hermann III of Suebia. In 1012, Hermann died and Ernst now became Duke of Suebia (34), but dies soon when hit by a friend's arrow during the hunt (35).
Adalbero von Lützelburg had basically been holding Trier hostage since 1008 (36). But the Emperor called his bluff in 1017 and had the clerics and the people acclaim Poppo to be archbishop of Trier. Poppo goes to Rome (37) to pick up his Pallium on April 8, 1017. Poppo reflects the Benedictine reform, expands the cathedral by 1/3rd, and becomes the guardian for his nephew Ernst. His sister Christina moves to Trier to enter a nunnery there. Poppo visits Palestine (38) and possibly even Babylon.
Markgrave Heinrich I is equally reliable on the emperor's side, attacking the polisch borderlands of Moravia in 1015 and leaving some 800 men of Boleslaw's dead on the field (38). Two years later, in 1017, he cuts off the returning Polish army laden down with plunder.
Then the Northern Markgrave Heinrich of Babenberg dies and his brother Adalbert becomes the new markgrave (39).
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