Meinhard II of Gorizia

Meinhard II, called the Elder (c. 1163 – 1231), was a younger son of Count Engelbert II of Gorizia and Vogt (reeve) of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. In 1192 he tried to seize Richard the Lionheart, shipwrecked near Aquileia returning from crusade, but the king escaped into Austria. He joined Emperor Henry VI's crusade of 1197.

Quarrels with the patriarchal church earned him temporary excommunication around 1216. In 1220 he succeeded his brother Engelbert III as count of Gorizia. Meinhard married three times, but none of his children survived childhood; his nephew Meinhard III succeeded him.