Count Palatine - Counts Palatine of Bavaria

Counts Palatine of Bavaria

Originally, the Counts Palatine held the County Palatine (around Regensburg), and were subordinate to the Dukes of Bavaria, rather then to the King. The position gave its holder a leading position in the legal system of the Duchy.

• Meginhard I, Count Palatine of Bavaria in 883
• Arnulf II (d. 954), son of Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria, constructed Scheyern Castle around 940
• Berthold (d. 999), son of Arnulf II, Count Palatine of Bavaria between 954 and 976 with interruptions, ancestor of the Counts of Andechs
• Hartwig I (d. 985), Count Palatine of Bavaria from 977 until his death
• Aribo I (d. c. 1020, son-in-law of Hartwig I, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 985 until his death
• Hartwig II (d. 1027), son of Aribo I, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1020 to 1026
• Aribo II (d. 1102), son of Hartwig II, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1026 to 1055
• Kuno I (d. {{circa|1082/1083), Count Palatine of Bavaria
• Rapoto I (d. 1099), Count Palatine of Bavaria from c. 1083 to 1093
• Engelbert I (d. 1122), nephew of both of Aribo II's wives, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1099 to 1120
• Otto IV (c. 1083 – 1156), probably a descendant of Arnulf II, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1120 until his death. He moved his residence from Scheyern Castle to Wittelsbach Castle and founded the House of Wittelsbach.
• Otto V (c. 1117 – 1183), Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1156 to 1180. Hecame Duke of Bavaria in 1180 as Otto I; his descendants ruled the Duchy until 1918.
• Otto VII (d. 1189), younger son of Otto IV, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1180 until his death
• Otto VIII (d. 1209), son of Otto VI, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1189 to 1208, infamous for murdering King Philip of Germany in 1208
• Rapoto II (d. 1231), brother-in-law of Otto VIII, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1208 until his death
• Rapoto III (d. 1248), son of Rapoto II, Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1231 until his death. He was the last Count Palatine; after his death the Duke of Bavaria usurp the rights and possessions of the Counts Palatine.