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The County of Formbach, known in recent scholarship as Vornbach, was a medieval county with the capital Vornbach (today part of Neuhaus am Inn) near Passau.

History

Since at least the 10th century, the county had been in the hands of a family that exercised lordship rights in Traungau. Around 1050, the seat of the county was moved from Vornbach Castle a few kilometres down to Neuburg. In the following years, the county was therefore called Neuburg.

In addition to Vornbach Castle, the family of the Counts of Formbach also owned the nearby fortifications of Schärding, Neuburg, Wernstein and Wimberg. The Counts of Formbach founded Vornbach Abbey in 1094 and died out in 1158 with Ekbert III of Neuburg. The estates were mainly inherited by the Counts of Andechs and the Otakare.

The Counts of Formbach were related and related to the Luitpoldings, the Brunons and the Wettins; In addition to Traungau, they ruled for a time in the Schweinachgau and the Künziggau, and they were also bailiffs of the diocese of Regensburg, the monasteries of Göttweig and Sankt Nikola near Passau.

Counts of Formbach/Wels-Lambach/Pitten

Early Genealogy:

Meginhard I, c. 930, Count of Traungau

Meginhard II, Count, Vogt of Niederaltaich, 944–955/963

Arnold I, Count of the Traun (zu Lambach), Count of Rotagau, 8 February 1018, † c. 1020

Aribo of Ennsburg, 1030

Arnold II, Count of Wels-Lambach, 1035 Margrave in the Carinthian Mark, † 1050 ⚭ Regininde of Verdun, † 1050

Arnold III of Wels-Lambach, † 1050 ⚭ Hazacha (Haziga)

Adalbero, Bishop of Würzburg 1045–1088, * c. 1010, † 1090

Mathilde ⚭ Ratpoto IV, Count of Cham

Gottfried, von Pitten, † 1050, Count of Lambach, 1041 Co-Margrave in the Carinthian Mark

Mathilde, † 1100

N.N., daughter ⚭ of Margrave Ottokar II of Styria, † 1022

Udalrich I, count 947–970

Bertold, Count of Lurngau 1000–1005

Meginhard III, Count (in Traungau) 1030

Pilgrim, monk in St. Emmeran Monastery

Tiemo I, † after 1025 in Reichenhall, Count of Quinzingau

Heinrich (Hesso) I., † probably 1030 ⚭ Himiltrud

Tuta von Formbach, * 1037, † around 1100 ⚭ King Bélas I of Hungary, ⚭ Engelbrecht III, Count of the Puster Valley and Count Palatine in Carinthia

Himiltrud, founder of Vornbach Abbey, † after 1070

Hermann III, † 1030

Tiemo II (Dietmar) II, † 1040, Count of Quinzingau

Meginhard IV, Count, Vogt of Niederaltaich, † 1066

Ulrich III (Udalrich III), † 1097, 1074 Count of Ratelnberg, 1095–1097 Count of Windberg, Vogt of Göttweig ⚭ Matilde

Conrad (1122-1128)

Luitgard, ⚭ Frederick II, Cathedral Vogt of Regensburg, † 1134

Konrad, † 1084

Dietrich I, canon in Bamberg

Hermann I of Winzenburg, † 1137/1138, Vogt of Göttweig, 1097 Count of Windberg, 1107 Count of Ratelnberg, 1108 Founder of Reinhausen (near Göttingen), 1109 Count of Winzenburg, 1112 Margrave of Meissen, 1114 Count Palatine of Saxony, Vogt of Göttweig ⚭ Hedwig von Assel

Beatrix II (Quedlinburg), † 1160, abbess of Quedlinburg

Conrad (1122-1128)

Matilde, † c. 1155 ⚭ Udo von Freckleben, Margrave of the Nordmark, † 1130

Sophie, † 1160 ⚭ Albrecht the Bear, Duke of Saxony, † 18 November 1170

Heinrich von Winzenburg, † 1146, count of Asle ⚭ Eufemia von Vohburg, ⚭ 1144 Richenza von Immenhausen

Sofie, † before 1171 ⚭ Rottmann I, Count of Himstedt

Otto von Winzenburg, † 1171/74, count of Assel ⚭ Salome von Heinsberg, † after 1185

Adelheid, † 1185 ⚭ Adolf III, Count of Schauenburg-Holstein, † 1225

Hermann II of Winzenburg, † 1152, 1125 Count of Winzenburg, 1129 Margrave of Meissen, deposed in 1130, 1139 of Plesse and Margrave, 1147 Vogt of Corvey ⚭ Elisabeth of Austria, † 1143; ⚭ 1148, Luitgard von Stade, † 1152

N.N., daughter, * 1149, † 1204 ⚭ 1170, Count Henry III of Schwarzenburg, † 1184 ⚭ Count Ulrich of Wettin

N.N., daughter, born 1150 ⚭ Duke Magnus Boris in Denmark

Hedwig, * 1151, supposedly provost of Gandersheim

Bruno, 1064–1066 Count of Künziggau,

Ekbert I, † 1109, around 1070 Count of Formbach, 1067 Count of Künziggau, 1094 founder of Vornbach ⚭ Abbey N.N. ⚭ Mathilde von Lambach, † 1090

Eberhard, 1095–1100, † c. 1100

Dietmar, Abbot of Ossiach

Ekbert II, 1113 Count of Formbach, 1120 of Pitten, 1142 Count of Pitten, † 1144 ⚭ Willibirg (daughter of Margrave Ottokar II of Styria), † 1145

Ekbert III, † 1158, 1148 Count of Pitten, 1151 Count of Neuburg am Inn

Kunigunde, † 1152 ⚭ 1135, Bertold II, Count of Andechs, † 1151 ⚭ Ulrich III of Deggendorf and Pernegg

Mathilde, † 1160 ⚭ Count Bertold II of Bogen, † 1167

Ekbert von Deggendorf

Benedikta (?) ⚭ Wernhard von Julbach

Henry II, Count, 1070, Vogt of St. Nikola ⚭ Adelheid of Perg and Machland

Gebhard, count of Formbach

Benedikta ⚭ Gebhard von Ollersbach

Benedikta ⚭ Wernhard I of Julbach

Dietrich von Ollersbach

Dietrich II, † 1145, 1115 Count of Viechtenstein, Count of Formbach, Count of Kreuzenstein ⚭ Adelheid, daughter of Margrave Leopold II of Austria

Hedwig, † 1170 ⚭ Count Engelbert von Wasserburg, Hallgraf in Reichenhall, † 1161

Gottfried, monk

Ulrich II (Udalrich) von Formbach, 1040/c. 1055

Pilgrim, † 1066,

Frederick, † 1060 ⚭ 1056 Gertrude, daughter of Count Konrad von Haldensleben, † 1116

Hedwig ⚭ Graf Gebhard von Supplinburg, † 1075, ⚭ Duke Dietrich of Upper Lorraine, † 1115

Emperor Lothar (1125-1137)

Ida, † 1138 ⚭ Count Sieghard X of Burghausen, † 1104

Simon, Duke of Lorraine from this house are the descendants of the House of Fornbacher.