Duke of Merania was a feudal line of princes who held northernmost seacoast of Dalmatia in 12th and 13th century. Map of Dalmatia, in present day Croatia highlighted Dalmatia (Croatian: Dalmacija, French: Dalmatie, German: Dalmatien, Italian: Dalmazia, Serbian Cyrillic: Далмација, Turkish: Dalmaçya, Hungarian: Dalmácia) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the...

The family was originally from bavarian Andechs. Wittelsbach-related counts of Dießen-Andechs (1135 to 1180) obtained territiories in Northern Dalmatia, Adriatic seacoast, became Margraves of Istria and ultimately Dukes with a country name Merania which derives from Latin mer (sea). The Benedictine abbey of Andechs is a former place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee in the Landkreis of Starnberg (Oberbayern) in Germany. ... The Adriatic Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula (Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. ... Coat of arms Istria (Istra, pronounced in Croatian and Slovenian; Istria, pronounced in Italian, Istrien, pronounced in German) is the biggest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. ...

They held the duchy from 1180 to 1248.

Otto II of Andechs was bishop of Bamberg in 1177–1196. In 1208, when Philip of Swabia, King of the Germans, was assassinated at Bamberg by Otto of Wittelsbach, members of the house of Andechs were implicated. Philip of Swabia depicted in a medieval manuscript (about 1200) Philip of Swabia (1177-1208), German king and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV, was the fifth and youngest son of the emperor Frederick I and Beatrix, daughter of Renaud III, count of Burgundy, and consequently... The Wittelsbach family is an European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. ...

Saint Hedwig of Andechs (c. 1174 – October 1243) was one of eight children born to Berthold IV, Duke of Merania, Count of Dießen-Andechs and Margrave of Istria. Of her four brothers, two became bishops, Ekbert of Bamberg (1203 – 1231), and Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia. This article is about 13th century Saint. ... The Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire, located around the city of Bamberg in Upper Franconia, also including the city of Erlangen. ... List of Bishops and Archbishops of Aquileia. ...

Otto succeeded his father as Duke of Dalmatia, and Heinrich became Margrave of Istria. Of her three sisters, Gertrude of Andechs-Merania (1185–September 24, 1213) was the first wife of Andrew II of Hungary and the mother of St Elizabeth of Hungary; Mechtilde became Abbess of Kitzingen; while Agnes, a famous beauty, was made the illegitimate third wife of Philip II of France in 1196, on the repudiation of his lawful wife, Ingeborg, but was dismissed in 1200, after Pope Innocent III laid France under an interdict. Gertrude von Meranien (1185 – September 24, 1213) was the first wife of András II, king of Hungary. ... Andrew II (Hungarian: András or Endre, Slovak: Ondrej) (c. ... Elisabeth of Hungary St. ... Philip II Augustus (French: Philippe II Auguste) (August 21, 1165 – July 14, 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. ... Innocent III, born Lotario de Conti di Segni (Gavignano, near Anagni, ca. ...

The dukes of Merania went extinct in the direct male line in 1248. A history of the house of Andechs was written by Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, the historian-statesman, and published in 1796. For broader historical context, see 1240s and 13th century. ... Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg or Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr zu Hortenburg (20 January 1781 or 1782 - 5 October 1848) was an Austrian/German statesman and historian. ...

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