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'''Henry IV''' ({{circa|1065/70}} – 14 December 1123) was [[Duchy of Carinthia|Duke of Carinthia]] and [[March of Verona|Margrave of Verona]] from 1122 until his death. He was the first ruler of those territories from the Rhenish [[House of Sponheim]].

Henry was the eldest son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim (died 1096) and his wife, Hedwig, probably a [[Friulia]]n countess from [[Mossa, Friuli-Venezia Giulia|Mossa]].<ref>Peter Štih, Vasko Simoniti, Peter Vodopivec, ''Slovenska zgodovina'' (Ljubljana, 2016), 109,131-32.</ref> Engelbert had been a supporter of [[Pope Gregory VII]] in the fierce [[Investiture Controversy]] and therefore had been divested of his county in the Bavarian [[Puster Valley]] by Emperor [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry IV]] in 1091.

After the death of his godfather, Duke [[Henry of Eppenstein|Henry III of Carinthia]], the last ruler from the House of [[Eppenstein]], he was enfeoffed with the Carinthian duchy and the Veronese march by Emperor [[Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry V]]. He did, however, not inherit Henry's [[Allod|allodial lands]], which passed to the Margrave [[Leopold of Styria]], a member of the Traungau dynasty ([[Otakars]]). This resulted in the so-called ''provincia Graslupp'', that is, the estates of [[Neumarkt in Steiermark|Neumarkt]] and [[Sankt Lambrecht]] as well as the [[Murau]] region, which had previously belonged to the Carinthian county of [[Friesach]], passing to the [[March of Styria]].

Henry, like his predecessor, remained an opponent of Archbishop [[Conrad I of Salzburg]]. He died within a year of taking the rule over Carinthia and was succeeded by his younger brother, [[Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia|Engelbert]].

==Sources==
*Hausmann, Friedrich. "Die Grafen zu Ortenburg und ihre Vorfahren im Mannesstamm, die Spanheimer in Kärnten, Sachsen und Bayern, sowie deren Nebenlinien". ''Ostbairische Grenzmarken – Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte Kunst und Volkskunde'' '''36''' (1994): 9–62.
*Brunner, Walter. "Das Werden der Landesgrenze gegen Kärnten und Salzburg". ''Das Werden der Steiermark''. Graz: Verlag Styria, 1980.
*Ortenburg-Tambach, Eberhard Graf zu. ''Geschichte des reichsständischen, herzoglichen und gräflichen Gesamthauses Ortenburg'', vol. 1: Das herzogliche Haus in Kärnten. Vilshofen, 1931.

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