Otto I, Count of Oldenburg (born ca. 1175; died 1251) was
Count of Oldenburg
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This is a list of the counts, dukes, grand dukes, and prime ministers of Oldenburg.
Counts of Oldenburg
* 1088/1101–1108 Elimar I
* 1108–1143 ...
from 1209.
Life
His father was
Maurice, Count of Oldenburg who died in 1209, whereupon Otto succeeded to the title along with his brother
Christian II, Count of Oldenburg
Christian II, Count of Oldenburg (died 1233) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1209 until his death.
Life
He was a son of Maurice I of Oldenburg (died 1211) and his wife Salome of Wickerode.
After his father' ...
.
He participated in the
Stedinger Crusade in 1234. In so doing he won
Moorriem,
Holle
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, and
Elsfleth
Elsfleth () is a town in the district of Wesermarsch, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the confluence of the Hunte with the Weser, on the left bank of the Weser.
It has a school of navigation (university of applied sciences), a harbour an ...
from Stedingen and freed himself from the archiepiscopal sovereignty.
He also waged war on
County of Hoya
The County of Hoya (German: ''Grafschaft Hoya'') was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. It was centered on the town of Hoya on the middle Weser river, between Bremen and Nienburg; the area now ...
and on the
Bishopric of Münster
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
, the latter on a dispute over fief.
In 1244, he endowed
Menslage-Börstel Monastery.
Marriage and issue
He was married to
Mechthild von Woldenberg with whom he had a daughter, Salome, who married Gerbert,
Count of Stotel. With the death of his son Heinrich in 1255, this line became extinct.
Literature
* Hans Friedl, Wolfgang Günther, Hilke Günther-Arndt, Heinrich Schmidt (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1992,
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1251 deaths
Counts of Oldenburg
13th-century German nobility
12th-century births
People of the Stedinger Crusade