Adelheid de Megling-Frontenhausen

Countess

Adelheid of Megling-Frontenhausen (c. 1075 - c. 1105) was a Bavarian countess remembered for the foundation of the Augustinian canons' chapter at Baumburg, near Altenmarkt an der Alz, on the site of a former comital castle. Daughter of Count Kuno of Megling-Frontenhausen, she was successively married, according to local tradition, to Count Marquart of Marquartstein, Count Ulrich of Pütten, and then Count Berengar I of Sulzbach, of whom the Neue Deutsche Biographie confirms that she was the first wife. Before her death, she obtained from Berengar a promise to found a religious community at Baumburg and to be buried there; canons from Rottenbuch settled there, and Pope Paschal II confirmed the foundation around 1109. A 15th-century funerary slab commemorates her in the church of Baumburg.