Otto II of Scheyern (some authors call him ''Otto III'') (died 31 October 1120) was a son of

Otto I, Count of Scheyern Otto I, Count of Scheyern (some authors call him ''Otto II of Scheyern''; – before 4 December 1072) was the earliest known ancestor of the House of Wittelsbach whose relation with the House can be properly verified. Life Most historians b ...

. His mother can not be unambiguously assigned because Otto I was married with a daughter of Count Meginhardt of Reichersbeuern and later with Haziga of Diessen (the widow of Count Herman of Kastl) and we don't know when Otto was born.

Life

He was

Vogt During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...

Freising Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000. Location Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the Is ...

and from 1116 also Vogt of

Weihenstephan Weihenstephan is a part of Freising north of Munich, Germany. It is located on the Weihenstephan Hill, named after the Weihenstephan Abbey, in the west of the city. Weihenstephan is known for: * the Benedictine Weihenstephan Abbey, founded 725, ...

Marriage and issue

Otto II may have been married to Richardis, the daughter of

Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola Ulric I (german: Ulrich I.), also ''Odalric'' or ''Udalrich'' (died 6 March 1070), Count of Weimar-Orlamünde, was margrave of Carniola from 1045 and of Istria from 1060 to his death. Life Ulric was the son of Margrave Poppo I of Carniola, whom ...

. They had four children: * Otto III (d. after 15 December 1130) * Eckhard III (d. after 11 July 1183) * Bernard II (d. ) * unnamed son

External links

Family tree
of the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach-Dachau-Valley, from a lecture by Prof. Schmid: ''Bayern im Spätmittelalter'', winter 1996/97

* ttp://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/scheyern_grafen_von/otto_3_graf_von_scheyern_+_nach_1140.html Otto III at genealogie-mittelalter House of Wittelsbach Counts of Germany 11th-century births 1120 deaths Year of birth unknown 11th-century German nobility 12th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub