Counts of Andechs - Genealogy

Genealogy

1. Arnold, Count of Dießen (d. 1098), married to Gisela of Schweinfurt, daughter of Duke Otto III of Swabia
   1. Berthold (II) (d.1151), Count of Dießen and Andechs in Bavaria, Count of Plassenburg and Kulmbach in Franconia, Vogt of Benediktbeuern Abbey, married Sophia, daughter of Margrave Poppo II of Istria, secondly married to Kunigunde of Vornbach
      1. Poppo
         1. Henry, Abbot of Millstatt
      2. Margrave Berthold I of Istria (c. 1110/15 – 14 December 1188), married to Hedwig, daughter of Count Otto IV of Wittelsbach, secondly to Luitgard, daughter of King Sweyn III of Denmark
         1. Berthold IV, Duke of Merania (d. 12 August 1204), married to Agnes of Wettin, daughter of Margrave Dedi III of Lusatia
            1. Otto I, Duke of Merania (d. 7 May 1234), Count Palatine of Burgundy, Margrave of Istria, married to Beatrice of Hohenstaufen, daughter of Count Otto I of Burgundy, secondly to Sophia of Ascania, daughter of Count Henry I of Anhalt
               1. Otto III, Count of Burgundy (c. 1226 – 19 June 1248), Duke of Merania, married to Elizabeth, daughter of Count Adalbert IV of Tyrol
               2. Agnes (d. 1263), married to the last Babenberg duke Frederick II of Austria (divorced), secondly to the last Sponheim duke Ulric III of Carinthia
               3. Beatrix (d. after 1265), married to the Ascanian count Herman II of Weimar-Orlamünde
               4. Margaret (d. 18 October 1271), married to Přemysl of Moravia, son of King Ottokar I of Bohemia, secondly to Count Frederick of Truhendingen
               5. Adelaide (d. 8 March 1279), married to Count Hugh III of Burgundy, secondly to Count Philip I of Savoy
               6. Elizabeth (d. 18 December 1272), married to the Hohenzollern burgrave Frederick III of Nuremberg
            2. Henry (d. 18 July 1228), Margrave of Istria, married to Sophia of Weichselburg
            3. Ekbert (d. 6 June 1237), Bishop of Bamberg
            4. Berthold (d. 23 May 1251), Archbishop of Kalocsa, Patriarch of Aquileia
            5. Agnes (c. 1180 – 29 July 1201), married to King Philip II of France
            6. Gertrude (assassinated 8 September 1213), married to King Andrew II of Hungary
            7. Saint Hedwig (c. 1176/80 – 14 May 1243, Abbess of Trzebnica, married to Henry I the Bearded, Duke of Silesia
            8. Mathilde (d. 1 December 1254), Abbess of Kitzingen
            9. unnamed daughter, married into the royal Nemanjic family of Serbia
         2. Sophia (d.1218), married to Count Poppo VI of Henneberg
         3. Kunigunde (d.1207), married to Count Eberhard III of Eberstein
         4. Mechtild (d.1245), married to Count Frederick I of Hohenburg, secondly to Count Engelbert III of Görz
         5. Poppo (1175 – Dezember 1245), Bishop of Bamberg
         6. Bertha, Abbess of Gerbstedt
      3. Otto (c.1132–1196), Bishop of Brixen and Bamberg
      4. Mechtildis of Edelstetten (d.1160)
      5. Euphemia (d.1180), Abbess of Altomünster
      6. Kunigunde (d.1139), nun in Admont Abbey

The counts went extinct in the direct male line in 1251. A history of the House of Andechs was written by the statesman and historian Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, and published in 1796.