Ulrich X, Count of Bregenz

Ulrich X (also called Ulric or Udalrich) (c. 1060 –1097) was Count of Bregenz from 1079 to his death in 1097.

Ulrich X of Bregenz
Bornc. 1060
Died1097
Prättigau
BuriedMehrerau Abbey
Noble familyUdalriching / House of Bregenz
Spouse(s)Bertha of Rheinfelden
Issue
FatherUlrich IX of Bregenz

Life

Ulrich X was the son of Ulrich IX of Bregenz (d. 1079).[1] In late 1080 or early 1081 Ulrich married Bertha of Rheinfelden, daughter of Rudolf of Rheinfelden.[2] When he met Bertha, Ulrich was already betrothed to another woman, a daughter of Count Werner of Habsburg (d. 1096). Yet he and Bertha began an affair, and when her relatives found out, they compelled Ulrich to marry Bertha.[3]

During the Investiture Contest, Ulrich was on the papal side, allied with Rudolf of Rheinfelden and Welf I, Duke of Bavaria.[4] With the permission of Pope Gregory VII He founded the abbey of Mehrerau in Bregenz.[5] Ulrich was also engaged in a long-running dispute with the monastery of Petershausen over property in Bigenhausen which he had appropriated from the monks.[6]

In 1097 Ulrich died while on a hunting trip in Prättigau. Members of the hunting party began rolling stones down a hill and Ulrich, in a show of bravado, tried and failed to jump one of the stones. He died from the injuries he sustained and his body was taken back to Bregenz for burial.[7]

Children

With Bertha, Ulrich X had the following children:[8]

  • Rudolf I, Count of Bregenz
  • Ulrich XI
  • Henry of Kellmünz (d. 1128)
  • Adelaide (d.28 June 1168), married Ulrich, count of Ramsperg and Hegau (d.c.1155)[9]

Notes
  1. Zösmair, ‘Geschichte Rudolfs des letzten,’ p. 27.
  2. Zösmair, ‘Geschichte Rudolfs des letzten,’ p. 27.
  3. Casus Monasterii Petrishusensis, III.26, p. 655.
  4. Beach, Trauma of Monastic Reform, p. 127.
  5. Zösmair, ‘Geschichte Rudolfs des letzten,’ p. 28.
  6. Beach, Trauma of Monastic Reform, pp. 126-7.
  7. Casus Monasterii Petrishusensis, III.26, p. 655.
  8. Zösmair, ‘Geschichte Rudolfs des letzten,’ p. 29.
  9. Casus Monasterii Petrishusensis, VI.20, p. 681.
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References
  • Casus monasterii Petrishusensis, ed. O. Abel and L. Weiland, MGH SS XX (1869), pp. 624-683
  • Historia monasterii Marchtelanensis, MGH SS XXIX, pp. 660-683
  • Berthold of Zwiefalten, Chronicon, in L. Wallach, ‘Berthold of Zwiefalten's Chronicle,’ Traditio 13 (1957), pp. 187-233.
  • A.I. Beach, The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany (Cambridge, 2017).
  • J. Zösmair, ‘Geschichte Rudolfs des letzten der alten Grafen von Bregenz (1097–1160),’ Schriften des Vereins für Geschichte des Bodensees und seiner Umgebung, 44 (1915), 25–39.
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