Otto I. (Palatinate-Mosbach)

Count Palatine Otto I of Mosbach (1413)

Otto I. von Pfalz-Mosbach (born August 24, 1390 in Mosbach ; † July 5, 1461 in Reichenbach ) was the youngest son of Elector Ruprecht III. , who was also the Roman-German King from 1400 to 1410, and Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nuremberg .

With the death of his father in 1410, the Electoral Palatinate was divided. Otto received the part about Mosbach and Eberbach . By choosing Mosbach as his residence , he also founded the Pfalz-Mosbach house . In 1448, with the death of Otto's nephew Christoph, the Pfalz-Neumarkt line was extinguished and its territory fell to Otto, who now also ruled from Neumarkt . After his brother Ludwig III. After returning seriously ill from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1427 , he entrusted the daily government business and the upbringing of his son and successor Ludwig IV to Otto until his death in 1436 . Otto himself made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1460, as can be seen in the pilgrimage report by Hans Bernhardt von Eptingen. In 1430 Otto married Johanna von Bayern-Landshut (1413–1444), a daughter of Duke Heinrich the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut. His grave is in the Benedictine monastery Reichenbach in the Upper Palatinate . His grave slab is preserved there, which is placed lying in front of the epitaph of his son Johann.

Offspring from the marriage with Johanna

Reichenbach monastery church, epitaph for Prince Johann von Pfalz-Mosbach , in front of it is the grave slab of his father Otto I.

• Margarethe von Pfalz-Mosbach (1432–1457), married to Count Reinhard III. from Hanau
• Amalie von Pfalz-Mosbach (1433–1483), married to Count Philipp the Elder von Rieneck - Grünsfeld , Lauda and Wildenstein
• Otto II of Pfalz-Mosbach (1435–1499), called Mathematicus , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt
• Ruprecht I of Pfalz-Mosbach (1437–1465), Bishop of Regensburg
• Dorothea von Pfalz-Mosbach (1439–1482), prioress in the Liebenau monastery
• Albrecht von Pfalz-Mosbach (1440–1506), Bishop of Strasbourg
• Anna von Pfalz-Mosbach (* 1441), prioress in the Himmelskron monastery
• Johann von Pfalz-Mosbach (1443–1486), cleric, provost of Augsburg and Regensburg
• Barbara von Pfalz-Mosbach (1444–1486), nun in the Liebenau monastery near Worms

literature

• Karl-Otto Ambronn:  Otto I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 691-693 ( digitized version ).
• Jakob Wille:  Otto I. v. Mosbach, Count Palatine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 712 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , 1908 (Reprint, London, 2013), p. 425; (Digitalscan) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Ruprecht III.	Duke of Pfalz-Mosbach 1410-1448	united to Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt
Christoph	Duke of Pfalz-Neumarkt 1448	united to Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt
––	Duke of Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt 1448–1461	Otto II.