King Henry II donates castle Bled and thirty royal mansi in the March of Carniola to the Bishopric of Bressanone.
(SC) ‡In nomine sanctae et individuae Trinitatis.‡
‡Henricus divina ordinante providentia rex.‡
‡Si sanctorum Dei loca alicuius doni incremento sublimare vel meliorare studuerimus‡, nobis nostrique Regni statui id proficere minime dubitamus.
Quapropter omnium Christi fidelium presentium scilicet ac futurorum noverit industria, qualiter nos, divini amoris instinctu, pro remedio animę nostrae seu parentum nostrorum, interventu et petitione dilectae coniugis nostrae ‡Gunigundae‡ reginae ‡necnon‡ et Adalberonis sanctae Sabiniensis ecclesiae episcopia rogatu, sibi suaeque ecclesiae in honore sanctorum Cassiani martiris et sancti Ingenuwini confessoris dedicatae castellum Veldes vocatum regalesque mansos XXXta in pago Creina in Comitatu Ǒdalrici sitos, videlicet inter duos fluvios maioris et minoris Sowa, per hanc nostram paginam potenti manu concedimus – quod si vero de eis inibi defuerit, in eodem Comitatu ubicumque habere noscimur ad eorum subpletionem quantum sufficiat simili modo largimur – cum omnibus pertinentiis, ecclesiis, decimationibus, areis, aedificiis, campis, pratis, pascuis, silvis, venationibus, aquis aquarumve decursibus, piscationibus, molendinis, cum familia utriusque sexus, cultis aut incultis exitibus et reditibus, quaesitis sive inquirendis seu cum omnibus quae quolibet modo dici aut scribi possunt utilitatibus, et de nostro iure ac dominio in eius ius et dominium omnino transfundimus.
Eo videlicet rationis tenore, ut prefatus episcopus suique successores de prenominatis prediis et eorum utilitatibus dehinc liberam habeant potestatem quicquid eis placuerit faciendi ad eorum tamen utilitatem ęcclesiae, omnium hominum inquietudine remota.
Et ut hęc nostrae traditionis auctoritas firmior omni habeatur tempore, hoc preceptum inde conscriptum manu propria firmare curavimus et sigillo nostro insigniri iussimus.
‡Signum domni Heinrici (SM) regis invictissimi.‡
‡Cuntherius cancellarius vice Erchambaldi archicappellani notavit.‡ (SI)
Data XI kalendas ‡iunii‡, indictione VIIII, anno Dominicae incarnationis millesimo XI, anno vero domni secundi Heinrici regnantis VIIII.
Actum Regensburg.
‡Feliciter, amen. ‡
a) add. sup. l. A.
This is the first mention of Ulrich I, the count of Ebersberg and father of Eberhard II, Adalbero II and Williburga II, as count of Carniola. Although Ulrich was never titled as margrave, Carniola was at the time a march (first mentioned in 973, see the document here), and his son and heir Eberhard II was titled the margrave of Carniola in 1040 (see the document here). During this period, the first half of the 11th century, the titles of marchio and comes were freely interchangeable, so it would not be wrong to consider Ulrich I a margrave of Carniola (cf. Andrea Stieldorf, Marken und Markgrafen: Studien zur Grenzsicherung durch die fränkisch-deutschen Herrscher (Hannover 2012), pp. 122–127).
This Ulrich died in 1029 and both of his sons died without leaving male heirs; Eberhard II died between 1041 and 1044, Adalbero II died in 1045 and the family estates were divided by Adalbero's wife Richlind, the sister of Welf II and aunt of Welf III, duke of Carinthia (see the excerpts from the 11th-century family chronicle attesting to this here). It was only Williburga II that managed to produce a surviving heir with her husband count Werihen III: a daughter, Hademoud II (see the sources attesting to that here). It was the son of this Hademoud, Ulrich, that would be the next margrave of Carniola, inheriting the office after the death of Eberhard II (in the official imperial diplomata attested as the margrave of Carniola for the first time in 1058, see the document here). On all of this, and on a detailed rejection of Landi’s thesis (who argued that Eberhard II had surviving male heirs upon his death), see Josip Banić, “Marchionatus Istrie origo mythosque Wodalrici marchionis: (Re)interpreting the Genesis of the March of Istria and the Socio-Genealogical Background of its First Margraves (c. 1060 – c. 1100),” in Mens acris in corpore commodo: Festschrift in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Ivan Matejčić, ed. Marijan Bradanović and Miljenko Jurković (Zagreb 2021), pp. 192–199.