Egino IV, Count of Urach

Egino IV the Bearded
Count of Urach
Reign	1181–1230
Predecessor	Egino III, Count of Urach
Successor	Egino I, Count of Freiburg
Born	c. 1160 Bad Urach, Holy Roman Empire
Died	12 January 1230 Tennenbach Abbey
Spouse	Agnes von Zähringen
House	House of Urach
Father	Egino III, Count of Urach

Egino IV (German: Egino der Bärtige; c. 1160 – 12 January 1230), also written as Egeno or Egon, and called the Bearded, was Count of Urach from 1181 to 1230 and co-ruler of the County of Frieburg with his son Egino V from 1218 to 1230.^[1]

Biography

Egino IV was married to Agnes von Zähringen, daughter of Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen, and inherited his lands east of the Rhine after the extinction of the male line of the House of Zähringen in 1218.^[2] The scale of this inheritance was subject to dispute, however, with claimants from the Dukes of Teck and the house of Baden-Hachburg voicing their discontent, which led to intervention by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, who decided to divide the land, reverting some to the crown, dividing the rest between the claimants and Egino IV. Discontent with this agreement, Egino would go to war, which ended in a peace at Ulm in which more generous terms were given to him. He would hold Freiburg, Neuchâtel, Villingen, and Offenburg, among others as a result of this agreement.^[3]

He would die in 1218, and be succeeded by his son, Egino V, known as 'the Younger', who would style himself Egino I, Count of Freiburg.

His second son Conrad of Urach was a Cistercian monk and abbot, who would become Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina, and in 1226 was offered the Papacy, however, he refused.^[4]

References

1. Kindler von Knobloch, Julius (1898). "Oberbadisches Geschlechterbuch" (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
2. Büttner, Heinrich (1939). "Egino von Urach-Freiburg der Erbe der Zähringer Ahnherr des Hauses Fürstenberg" (PDF) (in German). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
3. Bader, Josef (1844). Egeno der Bärtige, Graf von Urach: nach den Quellen (in German).
4. Michael Ott (1908). "Conrad of Urach". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company.