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Birth:          ABT 1103 
Death:          13 Sep 1170 
Burial:         Ensdorf Abbey, Bavaria

Notes
heiress of Lengenfeld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilika_of_Pettendorf-Lengenfeld
Heilika of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld (also known as Eilika; c.?1103 – 14 September 1170; 
buried in Ensdorf Abbey) was by marriage Countess Palatine of Bavaria.

She was one of the two daughters of the edelfrei Lord Frederick III of Pettendorf-
Lengenfeld-Hopfenohe, who died between 1112 and 1119 without a male heir. Her 
mother was a Heilika of Swabia the daughter of Duke Frederick I of Swabia and his 
wife, Agnes of Germany. So, she was a granddaughter of Emperor Henry IV.

She married Count Otto IV of Wittelsbach (d. 1156), the Count Palatine of Bavaria. In 
1124, he moved his residence from Scheyern Castle to Wittelsbach Castle in Aichach. 
He donated Scheyern Castle to the Benedictine Order, who turned it into a monastery.

Otto and Heilike had eight children:
1.Herman
2.Otto, nicknamed "the Redhead" (c.?1117-1183), succeeded his father as Count 
Otto VIII of Scheyern, Count Otto V of Wittelsbach and Count Palatine Otto VI of 
Bavaria. In 1180, after the fall of Henry the Lion, Emperor Frederick I "Barbarossa" 
enfeoffed Otto the Redhead with the Duchy of Bavaria. From then on, he called 
himself Otto I of Bavaria. The Wittelsbach dynasty would retain the duchy from 1180 
until 1918.
3.Conrad, Archbishop of Mainz as Conrad III and Archbishop of Salzburg as Conrad I
4.Frederick II, (d. 1198 or 1199), married in 1184 to a daughter of Count Mangold of 
Donauwörth
5.Udalrich (d. 29 May 1179)
6.Otto VII (d. 1189), married Benedicta, also a daughter of Count Mangold of 
Donauwörth
7.Hedwig (c.?1117 – 16 July 1174), married in 1135 to Count Berthold (c.?1112 – 14 
December 1188), who in 1151 became Duke Berthold III of Merania, Margrave 
Berthold I of Istria and Count Berthold III of Andechs. In 1157, he also became Count 
of Dießen-Wolfratshausen.
8.Adelaide, married Otto II of Stefling

Heilika's sister Heilwig was married to Count Gebhard I of Leuchtenberg and brought 
the Lordship of Waldeck [1] into the marriage.

Heilika died on 14 September 1170 and was buried in Ensdorf Abbey.

Parents
____ Frederick (ABT 1070 - 1110)
OF LEIGE Sigena (ABT 1070 - 24 Feb 1110)

Siblings
VON PETTENDORF OF LENGENFELD Heilika (ABT 1103 - 13 Sep 1170)

Marriage To VON WITTLESBACH Otto IV (ABT 1085 - 4 Aug 1156)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
VON SCHEYERN Eckhard I (ABT 1065 - BEF 11 May 1091)
OF WEIMAR Richardis (ABT 1065 - )

Children by VON WITTLESBACH Otto IV ABT 1085 - 4 Aug 1156
____ Otto I (V) (ABT 1117 - 1 Jul 1183)
OF WITTELSBACH Hedwig (ABT 1130 - 16 Jul 1174)

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