Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol

Meinhard I
Count of Tyrol
18th century depiction
Count	1253–1258
Predecessor	Albert IV
Successor	Meinhard II Albert I of Gorizia
Spouse(s)	Adelaide of Tyrol
Noble family	House of Gorizia
Father	Engelbert III of Gorizia
Mother	Matilda of Andechs
Born	c. 1200/1205
Died	22 July 1258
Buried	Tirol Castle

Meinhard I (c. 1200/1205 – 22 July 1258), a member of the House of Gorizia (Meinhardiner), was Count of Gorizia (as Meinhard III) from 1231 and Count of Tyrol from 1253 until his death.

He was the son of Count Engelbert III of Gorizia and his wife Matilda, a sister of the Andechs duke Berthold IV of Merania. His father died in 1220, nevertheless he did not come in control over all his family's possessions around Lienz and Gorizia upon the death of his uncle Count Meinhard the Elder. About 1237 he married Adelaide (Adelheid), one of the two daughters of Count Albert IV of Tyrol, attended with reasonable succession prospects in the Tyrolean lands.

Meinhard strongly supported the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II in his fierce conflict with Pope Innocent IV and in return was appointed Imperial governor of the Duchy of Styria and the March of Carniola after the last Babenberg duke Frederick the Warlike had died without heirs in 1246. From 1250 onwards also governor in the princeless Duchy of Austria, Meinhard facing the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty did not prevail: his rule in Carniola was challenged by the Carinthian ducal House of Sponheim, and in Austria and Styria he was expelled by the Bohemian prince Ottokar II Přemysl in 1251.