Meinhard III of Gorizia

Meinhard III (c.1200–1258) was Count of Gorizia from 1231 and, jure uxoris, Count of Tyrol as Meinhard I from 1253. An ally of Emperor Frederick II against Pope Innocent IV, he governed Styria, Carniola and Austria as imperial governor after 1246, until Ottokar II expelled him in 1251.

Defeated at Greifenburg in September 1252, he surrendered his sons as hostages under the Peace of Lieserhofen, then secured southern Tyrol in 1253. He died on 22 July 1258, leaving sons Meinhard II and Albert I.