# Aribonids

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The **Aribonids** were a noble family of probably [Bavarian](/source/Bavarii) origin who rose to preeminence in the Carolingian [March of Pannonia](/source/March_of_Pannonia) and the later [Margraviate of Austria](/source/Margraviate_of_Austria) (*marcha orientalis*) in the late ninth and early tenth centuries. The dynasty is named after its ancestor Margrave [Aribo of Austria](/source/Aribo_of_Austria) (d. 909). The Aribonids maintained influence in the [Duchy of Bavaria](/source/Duchy_of_Bavaria), the Austrian march, and other parts of Germany (the Saxon eastern marches and the Rhineland) until the early twelfth century, when they disappear.

## Genealogy

Their earliest identifiable member was Bishop [Arbeo of Freising](/source/Arbeo_of_Freising) (d. 784), probably related to the [Huosi](/source/Huosi) family. Margrave Aribo succeeded [William](/source/William_(marcha_orientalis)) and his brother [Engelschalk I](/source/Engelschalk_I) in the Bavarian March of Pannonia in 871, after both had been killed fighting against [Great Moravian](/source/Great_Moravia) forces. In result, the Aribonid dynasty had a long-sustained feud with the [Wilhelminers](/source/Wilhelminers) in the late ninth century.[1] As in the [Wilhelminer War](/source/Wilhelminer_War) the dukes of Great Moravia tended to support the Wilhelminer [Engelschalk II](/source/Engelschalk_II), the Aribonids were usually at war with the Moravians. Margrave Aribo survived the disastrous [Battle of Pressburg](/source/Battle_of_Pressburg) in 907 and became the dynasty's progenitor.

As most of the Pannonian march had been conquered by the [Magyars](/source/Hungarian_invasions_of_Europe), the family retired to Bavaria. The Aribonids controlled the [Archdiocese of Salzburg](/source/Archdiocese_of_Salzburg) for a long time.[2] From 985 the dynasty held the office of a Bavarian [count palatine](/source/Count_palatine) and donated monasteries like [Seeon Abbey](/source/Seeon_Abbey) and [Göss Abbey](/source/G%C3%B6ss_Abbey) in [Styria](/source/March_of_Styria). They lost their influence after they got involved in a 1055 insurrection led by Duke [Conrad I of Bavaria](/source/Conrad_I,_Duke_of_Bavaria) against Emperor [Henry III](/source/Henry_III,_Holy_Roman_Emperor). Nevertheless, they retained some of their possessions in [Carinthia](/source/Duchy_of_Carinthia), where they later established the abbeys of [Millstatt](/source/Millstatt_Abbey) and [Eberndorf](/source/Eberndorf). In fact, the family provided many high ecclesiastics; Bishop [Pilgrim of Passau](/source/Pilgrim_of_Passau) (971–991) as well as the archbishops [Aribo of Mainz](/source/Aribo_(archbishop)) (1021–1031) and his brother [Pilgrim of Cologne](/source/Pilgrim_of_Cologne) (1021–1036) were Aribonids, as their names would suggest.

## Notes

1. [Reuter, Timothy](/source/Timothy_Reuter). *Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056*. New York: Longman, 1991. page 82.

1. [Reuter, Timothy](/source/Timothy_Reuter). *Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056*. New York: Longman, 1991. page 196.

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