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Birth:          ABT 1065 of Karnten, Austria
Death:          13 Apr 1141 Sean

Notes
also Margrave of Marquardstein
died as a monk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert,_Duke_of_Carinthia
Engelbert II (died 13 April 1141), a member of the House of Sponheim, was Margrave 
of Istria and Carniola from about 1103/07 until 1124. In 1123, he succeeded his elder 
brother Henry as Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona which he held until his 
retirement in 1135.

Life[edit]

Engelbert II was the son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim (d. 1096) and his wife 
Hedwig of uncertain descent, maybe a daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of 
Saxony. His grandfather Count Siegfried I of Sponheim (d. 1065) came to Carinthia 
about 1035 as an attendant of Emperor Conrad II.

In 1099 Pope Urban II appointed Engelbert II Vogt protector of Saint Paul's Abbey, 
founded by his father. About 1100 he established the County of Kraiburg on the 
inherited estates of his wife Uta, daughter of Burgrave Ulric of Passau. He also 
acquired two castles in the Trixen valley near Völkermarkt from the Bishop of Gurk 
and the market town of Friesach in 1106. About 1107 he was elevated to a margrave 
in Istria and Carniola, succeeding Count Ulric II of Weimar.

Unlike his father, Engelbert II was a loyal supporter of the ruling Salian dynasty and 
also a fierce opponent of Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg in the yet unresolved 
Investiture Controversy. He stood as guarantor of German king Henry V at his 
coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in February 1111 and witnessed the Concordat of 
Worms with Pope Callixtus II in September 1122. In the same year his elder brother 
Henry IV was created Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona, and upon his death 
in 1123 Engelbert II succeeded him. The next year he ceded Istria to his son 
Engelbert III.

In 1135 Engelbert II renounced Carinthia and Verona, whereafter Emperor Lothair II 
enfeoffed his son Ulrich I. Engelbert retired to Seeon Abbey in the Bavarian 
Chiemgau, where he died on 13 April 1141.[1]

Marriage and issue[edit]

About 1103 he married Uta, daughter of Burgrave Ulric of Passau (died 2 February 
1099).[2] Together they were the parents of the following children:
Ulric I, succeeded his father in Carinthia in 1135
Engelbert III, succeeded his father in Istria, Carniola and Kraiburg in 1124
Henry, Bishop of Troyes in 1145
Matilda, married Count Theobald the Great of Blois-Champagne[3]
Rapoto I, Count of Ortenburg in 1130 and Kraiburg in 1173
Adelheid, Abbess of Göss in 1146
Hartwig II, Bishop of Regensburg in 1155
Ida, married Count William III of Nevers[3]
[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I16161 
disagrees, and has Ida as child of Englebert III, which makes more sense in terms of 
dates]

Parents
VON SPONHEIM Engelbert I (ABT 1040 - 1 Apr 1096)
VON EPPENSTEIN (VON FLINSBACH) Hedwig (ABT 1040 - )

Siblings
____ Richgard (Richilda) (ABT 1060 - )
____ Englebert II (ABT 1065 - 13 Apr 1141)

Marriage To VON PASSAU (SULZBACH) Uta (Utha) (ABT 1065 - AFT 1140)
    m. ABT 1095 

Notes

Parents
____ Ulrich "the Rich" (ABT 1040 - 14 Apr 1099)
VON FRANTENHAUSEN Adelaide (ABT 1045 - Feb 1110)

Children by VON PASSAU (SULZBACH) Uta (Utha) ABT 1065 - AFT 1140
VON SPONHEIM Mathilde (Maud) (ABT 1097 - 13 Dec 1160)
____ Englebert III (ABT 1100 - 6 Oct 1173)

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