Otting (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Otting family

Destruction of the Tagmersheim moated castle in 1523

Epitaph of Moritz Heinrich von Otting in the parish church of St. Jakobus in Tagmersheim

Otting is the name of an extinct southern German local noble family and a countsilateral line of the Wittelsbach family .

Origin in Otting

The von Otting family is named after Otting , today a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries . It can be traced there since 1245. The Knights of Otting were ministerials to the Counts of Graisbach . The von Otting family also held the dignity of hereditary chamberlain of the Eichstätt diocese .

Tagmersheim moated castle

Since around 1300 the Ottinger people have also appeared as gentlemen at Tagmersheim , where they built the new Tagmersheim moated castle . They sold their ancestral castle Otting around 1570 to the knights of Wemding. The wildest offspring of the knightly dynasty was Eucharius von Otting († 1520), who was the horror of all as a feared robber baron and warrior at the time of the decline of chivalry . The castles Tagmersheim and Emskeim , which were destroyed by the Swabian Federation in 1523, belonged to his hiding places . The Ottingen noble family died out in 1578 with Moritz Heinrich von Otting, who sat in Tagmersheim.

Coat of arms of the Counts of Otting and Fünfstetten

The name and coat of arms were revived when, on July 16, 1817, Friedrich , half-brother of the first Bavarian king, received the name and dignity of Count von Otting and Fünfstetten for himself and all of his descendants with the addition of the slightly changed coat of arms of the extinct von Otting family.

coat of arms

A coat of arms seal of Kunrad von Otting from 1578 shows the herald's shield of the Lords of Otting: the shield split in silver and black and covered with a narrow golden bar.