page_title: House of Gorizia
section_title: Counts
hierarchical_section_title: House of Gorizia / Counts
caption_attribution_description: County of Görz Coat of Arms
context_page_description: The Counts of Gorizia, or Meinhardiner, were a comital and ducal dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire. Named after the Gorizia Castle, they were originally advocates in the Patriarchate of Aquileia who ruled the County of Gorizia from the early 12th century until the year 1500. Staunch supporters of the Emperors against the papacy, they reached the height of their power in the aftermath of the battle of Marchfeld between the 1280s and 1310s, when they controlled most of contemporary Slovenia, western and south-western Austria and north-eastern Italy. After 1335, they began a steady decline until their territories shrunk back to the original County of Gorizia by the mid 1370s. Their remaining lands were inherited by the Habsburg ruler Maximilian I.
  From 1253, the dynasty ruled the County of Tyrol. In 1271, their vast possessions were split. The main branch kept the recently acquired Tyrol and became known as Counts of Gorizia-Tyrol or the Meinhardiner Line after Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia.
context_section_description: Marquard (fl. 1060/1074), Vogt of Aquileia
  Meginhard (died about 1090), from the House of Siegharding, Count in the Puster Valley
  Henry I (died after 1102), Vogt of Aquileia from 1082          
  Ulrich (died 1122), brother
  Meinhard I (died 1139/1142), descent uncertain, mentioned as Count of Gorizia in 1117, jointly with his brother
  Engelbert I (died c. 1122), also Count palatine of Bavaria and Vogt of Millstatt Abbey in Carinthia
  Engelbert II (1142–1191), son of Meinhard I, jointly with his brother
  Henry II (1142–1150)
  Engelbert III (1191–1220), son of Engelbert II, jointly with his brother
  Meinhard II the Elder (1191–1231)
  Meinhard III (1231–1253), son of Engelbert III
  Inherited Tyrol in 1253
caption: Görz coat of arms, as drawn by Hugo Gerard Ströhl, 1890
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