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unusual facts about Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen



Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen

In exchange for this renunciation, Berthold gained territorial concessions in what is now southern Germany and northern Switzerland, consolidating Zähringer hold over the Ortenau, the Breisgau, Schaffhausen, Breisach and All Saints' Abbey.

At the battle of Ulrichen in 1211, however, he failed to gain access to the Valais.

Otto I, Count of Burgundy

Haughty Otto however soon entered into several feuds: not only with the Anscarid lords of Auxonne and Mâcon, who claimed late Beatrice's heritage, but also with the Counts of Montbéliard, the French Duke Odo III of Burgundy and Duke Berthold V of Zähringen.


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