Bistumswappen of Passau.Otto von Lonsdorf (ca.1200 - 1265) was a 13th century
Bishop of Passau
The Diocese of Passau is a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
, before he became
Bishop of Passau
The Diocese of Passau is a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.Treaty of Linz with King
Ottokar II of Bohemia
Ottokar II ( cs, Přemysl Otakar II.; , in Městec Králové, Bohemia – 26 August 1278, in Dürnkrut, Lower Austria), the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his deat ...
(1257), the
coin
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reform of 1260, the reconciliation with
Bavaria
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in 1262, and the "Ilzstadtweistum" in 1265 in the Stephansdom in Passau.
Otto von Lonsdorf is also well-known for his copial book "Codex Lonsdorfianus", which provides numerous important sources of mediaeval history even beyond the diocese (among other things, the Raffelstetten Customs Order of 903/905.
Köln
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* Josef Breinbauer: Otto von Lonsdorf. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 19, (Duncker & Humblot,
Berlin
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1999), , S. 691 (Digitalisat).
* Franz Xaver Kohler: Otto von Lonsdorf, Fürstbischof von Passau : (1254-1265). (Burghausen, 1902).
* Ulrich Schmid, Otto von Lonsdorf Bischof zu Passau. (Würzburg 1903).
