Otto III of Carinthia
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Otto III of Carinthia was a member of the Meinhardiner family. He was Duke of Carinthia
Carinthia
Carinthia may refer to:*Carinthia , a state of the Republic of Austria*Slovenian Carinthia, a traditional region of Slovenia*Koroška statistical region, the statistical region of Slovenia*March of Carinthia, in the Holy Roman Empire...

 from 1295 to 1310. He was also Count of Gorizia
County of Gorizia
The County of Görz was a county based around the town of Gorizia in the present-day Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy.Count Meinhard, descendant of the Bavarian Meinhardiner noble family with possessions around Lienz in Tyrol, is mentioned as early as 1107...

 and Vienna
Vienna
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. He was a son of Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia
Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia
Meinhard II from the House of Meinhardin was ruling Count of Gorizia from 1258 until 1271 and Count of Tyrol from 1258 until his death...

 and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
Elisabeth of Bavaria was the queen consort of Conrad IV of Germany.-Family:She was the eldest daughter of Otto II, Duke of Bavaria and Agnes of the Palatinate...

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Reign

Otto inherited a well-organized country, as his father had laid the foundation for an efficient administration by fostering ministeriales
Ministerialis
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 and creating the Tyrolean Raitbuch (internal record book). Otto signed a border treaty with the neighbouring Bishopric of Brixen, establishing the confluence of the Adige
Adige
The Adige is a river with its source in the Alpine province of South Tyrol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland. At in length, it is the second longest river in Italy, after the River Po with ....

 and the Avisio as the border between Tyrol and Brixen. Otto's brothers Albert, Louis and Henry became vogt
Vogt
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s of the bishops of Trento
Trento
Trento is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of Trentino...

.

King Albert I granted Otto several tolls. However, Otto's lavish court was a burden on his finances. Most notable of his economic policies was the expansion and securing of the market in Gries (now part of Bolzano) in 1305 competing with the market in the central town of Bolzano, which was dominated by the bishop.

Otto died in 1310 without a male heir. As his brothers Albert and Louis had already died in 1292 and 1305, respectively, he was succeeded by his youngest brother, Henry.

Marriage and issue

In 1297 Otto married Duchess Euphemia (1281–1347), a daughter of Duke Henry V of Legnica
Henry V, Duke of Legnica
Henry V the Fat was a Duke of Jawor from 1273, of Legnica from 1278 and also Duke of Wroclaw from 1290....

. They had four daughters:
  • Anna, married Count Palatine Rudolf II;
  • Elisabeth
    Elisabeth of Carinthia
    Elisabeth or Elizabeth was the daughter of Otto III of Carinthia by his wife Euphemia of Silesia-Liegnitz. She was born in Gorizia.-Family:...

    , married King Peter II of Sicily
    Peter II of Sicily
    Peter II was crowned King of Sicily in 1321 and gained full sovereignty when his father died in 1337....

    ;
  • Ursula and
  • Euphemia.

Footnotes

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