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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA%20(LOWER%20RHINE).htm#DietrichIAltenaIsenburgdied1301B">http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA%20(LOWER%20RHINE).htm#DietrichIAltenaIsenburgdied1301B</a></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><astyle="color: purple; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" href="http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CARINTHIA.htm#IrmgardMAdolfIIBerg"><strong>von Sponheim</strong></a>, daughter of ENGELBERT [II]von Sponheim Marchese of Istria, Duke of Carinthia &amp; his wife Uta von Passau [Ratpotonen]].&nbsp; Th</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">e Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "<em>comitissa Mathildis Campaniensis et uxor Renaldi comitisNivernensis et comitissa Montis Veteris iuxta Coloniam et mater illorum Romanorum qui Froiepain dicuntur</em>" as sisters of "<em>archiepiscopi Coloniensis Frederici</em>"</span><a style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; color: purple; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" title="" href="http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA%20(LOWER%20RHINE).htm#_ftn130" name="_ftnref130"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal;">[130]</span></strong></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">.&nbsp; In the case of the two sisters named first, other sources confirm that they were daughters of Engelbert Marchese of Istria, Duke of Carinthia.&nbsp; It is possible therefore that the other two named sisters (of which the countess of Berg was one) were also Engelbert&rsquo;s daughters.&nbsp; Ascertaining the precise family relationship between all four presumed sisters and Friedrich [I] Archbishop of K&ouml;ln depends on interpreting apparently contradictory sources which link the archbishop with the Sponheim and Schwarzenberg/Regensberg families, a problem which is discussed in detailin the document BAVARIA NOBILITY.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Europ&auml;ische Stammtafeln</em>&nbsp;indicates that Adolf [II]&rsquo;s second wife was the daughter of Engelbert, son of Berthold [I] [von Schwarzenberg]</span><a style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: purple; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" title="" href="http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA%20(LOWER%20RHINE).htm#_ftn131" name="_ftnref131"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-style: italic;vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; font-style:normal;">[131]</span></strong></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -37.7952766418457px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">.&nbsp; No primary source has been identified which confirms that this is correct: it is presumably consistent with another theory about the origin of Archbishop Friedrich.&nbsp;</span></p>

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