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  Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 117
Adelaide of Nordgau (?) married Henry II of Wormsgau, son of Otto of Carinthia and Judith of Verdun (?), circa 986.
Ottokar VI (I of Styria) (?) married Wilibirg of Carinthia (?), daughter of Adalbert of Carinthia and Beatrice of Swabia.
Adalbert of Carinthia married Beatrice of Swabia, daughter of Herman II of Swabia and Gerberge of Burgundy.
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 Ottokar II of Styria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ottokar II (?– 28 November 1122) was Margrave of Styria.
He was the son of Ottokar I and grandfather of Ottokar III, from the dynasty of the Otakars.
Ottokar II was married 1090 with Elisabeth, daughter of Leopold II of Austria and Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg and had three children:
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 Premysl Ottokar II
Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Ottokar was involved in a dispute with Bela IV[?], king of Hungary, over the possession of Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
By an arrangement made in 1254 he surrendered part of it to Bela, but when the dispute was renewed he defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formal investiture with Austria and Styria to the German king, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
Ottokar was a founder of towns and a friend of law and order, while he assisted trade and welcomed German immigrants.
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 Informat.io on Duchy Of Styria
When Styria came under the hegemony of Charlemagne as a part of Karantania (Carinthia), erected as a border territory against the Avars and Slavs, there was a large influx of Bavarii and other Christianized Germanic peoples, whom the bishops of Salzburg and the patriarchs of Aquileia kept faithful to Rome.
During the reign of Margrave Ottokar IV (1164-92) Styria was raised to a duchy by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, in 1180 after the fall of Henry the Lion of Bavaria.
Lower Styria with the cities of Celje and Maribor became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, while the rest remained with Austria as the State of Styria.
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 1255. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Ottokar carried on a successful campaign in support of the Teutonic Knights against the heathen Prussians.
Ottokar, taking advantage of the interregnum in the German Empire, extended his power over Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria.
Ottokar was decisively defeated on the Marchfeld (Aug. 26) and killed.
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 Styria
King Ottokar II Přemysl reconquered the territory in 1260.
Lower Styria was taken from Austria in 1920 by the Treaty of St. Germain.
The Ausseer region was reintegrated in Styria in 1948.
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 Vlar's Timeline of the World (Page 8)
Philip II of France defeats Otto IV and the English.
1245 - Frecterick II deposed by the Council of Lyons.
1246 - Frederick II seizes the vacant dukedom of Austria and Syria.
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 Carinthia and Styria
A large immigration of German settlers led to the assimilation of the original Slavic population in Carinthia, which 1335 became a part of the Habsburg dynasty's lands and thereafter was linked with Styria and Carniola during the repeated divisions of the Habsburg lands.
Styria was a part of the old Carinthia, which became a separate margraviate during the tenth century as the "Carinthian Mark".
The margraviate went 1056 to Ottokar I who styled himself as margrave of Steyr after the castle he had his residence in, this name then evolved to "Styria" (in German Steiermark).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Styria
Styria came under the supremacy of Charlemagne as a part of Karantania (Carinthia).
During the reign of Margrave Ottokar II (1164-92) Styria was raised to a duchy by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1180.
With the death of Ottokar the first line of rulers of Styria became extinct; the region fell to the Babenberg family who then ruled in Austria.
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 Informat.io on Ottokar I Of Styria
Ottokar I, Count of Steyr (died 1064), was the founder of the dynasty of the Otakars.
From 1056 to 1064, he was margrave of the Karantanian March, later to be known as Styria (named Steiermark in German after the town of Steyr, where Ottokar was count).
The margraves Adalbero and Ottokar II were his sons.
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 Styria - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Styria (German, Steiermark), province, south-eastern Austria, bordering Slovenia, and lying almost wholly within the Alps.
King Ottokar II of Bohemia occupied Austria, Styria, and Carniola...
Graz, city in south-east Austria, capital of Styria Province on the Mur River, bordered on three sides by the Alps.
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 Virtual Vienna Net: Austria's History
When, in 1246, the childless Duke Friedrich II was killed in the Battle of the Leitha against the Magyars, his lands became the object of his neighbors' power politics.
In 1526, after the death of the last Jagellonian king Ludwig II in the Battle of Mohács, Bohemia and Hungary were united with Austria.
Her son Joseph II abolished serfdom, issued the Toleration Edict and secularized monasteries and church property, thus paving the way for consistent centralism.
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 RULERS OF AUSTRIA (ÖSTERREICH)
Son of Václav II of Bohemia; married Gertrud daughter of Heinrich son of Leopold VI of Bade
Son of Albrecht II; in Styria, Carinthia, and Tyrol; killed in battle against the Swiss
Son of Ernst; in Styria and Carinthia; Austria 1457 and Tyrol 1490 (Archduke 1453)
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 carinthia_(duchy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 976, Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor separated the Carinthia from the Duchy of Bavaria.
In 1077, the country was given to Luitpold, another member of the Eppensteiner family, which, however, ended with the death of Henry II of Carinthia in 1122.
Maria Theresa of Austria and Joseph II attempted to create a more unitary Habsburg state, and in 1804, Carinthia was integrated into the Austrian Empire.
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 Austria Heads of State
Her son later became Duke and was the last of the Ottokar Line and the the territory was the inherited by the Barbenberg Dukes of Austria.
She inherited the Duchy from her uncle, Friederich II von Babenberg, and her husband; Herman VI of Baden was titular Duke 1248-50 and her son, Friederich I of Baden until 1251.
Both King Ottokar of Bohemia and King Rudolf von Habsburg of Hungary forced her to resign her claims, but she continued her pressure and in the end she was given 6.000 Mark as compensation.
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 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Ljubljana (SLO)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1269 it became part of the Austrian countries as Ottokar II Pøemysl, King of Bohemia and Duke of Austria and Styria, also became Duke of Carinthia and Carniola.
In 1442 it was destroyed during battles between the Dukes of Celje (Cilli) and Emperor Friedrich II.
When the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773 by order of Emperor Joseph II it became the residence of the bishop of Ljubljana.
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 Austrian 100 Schilling Coins Page III
Ottokar II was succeeded by his son Winceslaus II as king who died in 1305.
was contested by the powerful King Ottocar II of Bohemia.
I) and Rudolf with Austria, Styria, and Carniola, which he
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 Ulrich von Liechtenstein : Province of Styria
Ulrich von Liechtenstein was instrumental in bringing about the inclusion of Styria into the Habsburg empire.
Ulrich von Liechtenstein, Minnesinger and high steward (governor) of Styria, was born in the year 1200 into the Murau line of his family.
However, it is likely that he was among the Styrian noblemen taken prisoner in 1269 by King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
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 ANTIQUANOVA MINT - M11 Bohemia, Premysl Ottokar II Bracteat (silver and aluminum coin replicas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Otakar II (also spelled Ottokar or Přemysl Otakar/Ottokar) (c.
Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formal investiture with Austria and Styria to the German king,
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 SCC Forums > The Kingdom of Bohemia Faction Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Though by the end of the 11th century Vrastislav II ruled Bohemia with the title of King, it didn’t become hereditary until 1212, when the Golden Bull of Sicily was issued.
The most famous of all the Przemyslids was Ottakar II (1253-1278).
He expanded the boarders of Bohemia to the south, incorporating Upper and Lower Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Styria.
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 Why Bohemia Should be in - Total War Center Forums
Ottakar II was dubbed the king of "Gold and Steel" for his many courageos and ambitious deeds.
Ottakar II amassed an army and came very close to breaking imperial power and the rise of Habsburg.
Ottokar the Second - clear time of interregnum in the Empire and then the fight about the power between Frederick of Habsburg and him
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