page_title: Duchy of Carinthia
section_title: House of Sponheim
hierarchical_section_title: Duchy of Carinthia / Dukes of Carinthia / House of Sponheim
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat of carinthian House of Spanheim- reconstruction. Compare with the seal of Ulrich III. Spanheim. For colors description look at Grboslovje; the panther is black and the background is silver or white.
context_page_description: The Duchy of Carinthia was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial State after the original German stem duchies.
  Carinthia remained a State of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, though from 1335 it was ruled within the Austrian dominions of the Habsburg dynasty. A constituent part of the Habsburg Monarchy and of the Austrian Empire, it remained a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary until 1918. By the Carinthian Plebiscite in October 1920, the main area of the duchy formed the Austrian state of Carinthia.
context_section_description: Henry IV (1122–1123 )
  Engelbert (1123–1134)
  Ulrich I (1134–1144)
  Henry V (1144–1161)
  Herman (1161–1181)
  Ulrich II (1181–1201)
  Bernhard (regent from 1199, duke 1202-1256)
  Ulrich III (1256–1269)
caption: The Carinthian ducal coat of arms until 1246
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