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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Egino IV the Bearded
| image        = Egon IV von Urach.jpg
| succession   = [[House of Urach|Count of Urach]]
| reign        = 1181–1230
| predecessor  = Egino III, Count of Urach
| successor    = Egino I, Count of Freiburg
| birth_date   = c. 1160
| birth_place  = [[Bad Urach]], [[Holy Roman Empire]]
| death_date   = 12 January 1230
| death_place  = [[Tennenbach Abbey]]
| place of burial =
| spouse       = Agnes von Zähringen
| issue        =
| house        = [[House of Urach]]
| father       = Egino III, Count of Urach
| mother       =
}}
'''Egino IV''' ({{Langx|de|Egino der Bärtige}}; c. 1160 – 12 January 1230), also written as '''Egeno''' or '''Egon''', and called '''the Bearded''', was Count of [[Bad Urach|Urach]] from 1181 to 1230 and co-ruler of the [[Principality of Fürstenberg|County of Frieburg]] with his son Egino V from 1218 to 1230.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kindler von Knobloch|first=Julius|date=1898|title=Oberbadisches Geschlechterbuch|url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kindlervonknobloch1898bd1/0392|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-13|website=|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223084030/http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kindlervonknobloch1898bd1/0392 |archive-date=2014-02-23 }}</ref>
== Biography ==
Egino IV was married to Agnes von Zähringen, daughter of [[Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen]], and inherited his lands east of the [[Rhine]] after the extinction of the male line of the [[House of Zähringen]] in 1218.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Büttner|first=Heinrich|date=1939|title=Egino von Urach-Freiburg der Erbe der Zähringer Ahnherr des Hauses Fürstenberg|url=http://www.thz-historia.de/_downloads/graf_egino_biographie_thz_historia_de.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=13 January 2022|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222130840/http://www.thz-historia.de/_downloads/graf_egino_biographie_thz_historia_de.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-22 }}</ref> The scale of this inheritance was subject to dispute, however, with claimants from the [[Duke of Teck|Dukes of Teck]] and the house of [[Hochburg|Baden-Hachburg]] voicing their discontent, which led to intervention by [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]], who decided to divide the land, reverting some to the crown, dividing the rest between the claimants and Egino IV. Discontent with this agreement, Egino would go to war, which ended in a peace at [[Ulm]] in which more generous terms were given to him. He would hold [[Freiburg im Breisgau|Freiburg]], [[Neuchâtel]], [[Villingen-Schwenningen|Villingen]], and [[Offenburg]], among others as a result of this agreement.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bader|first=Josef|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wlQ6AAAAcAAJ|title=Egeno der Bärtige, Graf von Urach: nach den Quellen|date=1844|publisher=|language=de}}</ref>
He would die in 1218, and be succeeded by his son, Egino V, known as 'the Younger', who would style himself Egino I, [[Counts of Freiburg|Count of Freiburg]].
His second son [[Conrad of Urach]] was a [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] [[monk]] and [[abbot]], who would become [[Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina]], and in 1226 was offered the [[Pope|Papacy]], however, he refused.<ref>Michael Ott (1908). "[[wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Conrad of Urach|Conrad of Urach]]". In ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. '''4'''. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</ref>
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