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
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whose relation with the House can be properly verified.
Life
Most historians believe Otto was a younger son of
Heinrich I, Count of Pegnitz and an unnamed daughter of Kuno I, Count of Altdorf.
[Detlev Schwennicke, '' Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten'', Neue Folge, Band I (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980), Tafeln 9, 23] He was appointed
Vogt
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of
Freising
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Location
Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the Isar river in ...
in
Bavaria
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.
[Detlev Schwennicke, ''Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten'', Neue Folge, Band I (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980), Tafel 23] A document from 1073 calls him , ''i.e.'' Count of Scheyern. Otto I died on December 4, 1072, while on a
pilgrimage
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to
Jerusalem
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.
Marriage and children
Otto was married twice.
His first wife was from
Saxony
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but her given name has not been preserved.
About 1057, he married
Haziga of Diessen, daughter of Count Friedrich of
Diessen
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History
The village was first mentioned in 380 as Deusone, and relates to the Dieze River. The etymology is unclear. Di ...
.
Otto had 4 known children. By his first wife he had:
*
Eckhard I.
* Bernard I, Count of
Scheyern (d. 2 March abt. 1102).
By his second wife, Haziga, he had 2 children:
*
Otto II
Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red (), was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy.
Otto II was ...
(died 1 April, ).
* Arnold I, Count of
Scheyern and Count of
Dachau (died c. 1123).
Ancestry
References
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External links
Family treeof the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach-Dachau-Valley, from a lecture by Prof. Schmid: ''Bayern im Spätmittelalter'', winter 1996/97
House of Wittelsbach
Counts of the Holy Roman Empire
1020s births
1072 deaths
11th-century German nobility
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