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| House of Gorizia Meinhardiner | |
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| Country | |
| Place of origin | Puster Valley, Tyrol |
| Founded | High Middle Ages |
| Founder | Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia |
| Final ruler | Leonhard, Count of Gorizia, Count Palatine of Carinthia |
| Titles | King of Bohemia and Margrave of Moravia King of Poland Duke of Carinthia Landgrave and Duke of Carniola Landgrave of Savinja Princely Count of Görz and Tyrol |
| Dissolution | 1500 |
The Counts of Gorizia (German: Grafen von Görz; Italian: Conti di Gorizia; Slovene: Goriški grofje), also known as the Meinhardiner, House of Meinhardin, were a comital, princely and ducal dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire. Named after Gorizia Castle in Gorizia (now in Italy, on the border with Slovenia), they were originally "advocates" (Vogts) in the Patriarchate of Aquileia who ruled the County of Gorizia (Görz) from the early 12th century until the year 1500. Staunch supporters of the Emperors against the papacy, they reached the height of their power in the aftermath of the battle of Marchfeld between the 1280s and 1310s, when they controlled most of contemporary Slovenia, western and south-western Austria and part of northeast Italy mostly as (princely) Counts of Gorizia and Tyrol, Landgraves of Savinja and Dukes of Carinthia and Carniola. After 1335, they began a steady decline until their territories shrunk back to the original County of Gorizia by the mid 1370s. Their remaining lands were inherited by the Habsburg ruler Maximilian I.