Otto (Braunschweig-Göttingen)

Otto von Braunschweig-Göttingen (born June 24, 1292 ; † August 30, 1344 in Göttingen ) called the Mild , was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Göttingen . He was the son of Albrecht II , from whom he inherited the title in 1318.

Life

Otto was married twice. The first time from 1311 with Jutta von Hessen (1289-1317), daughter of Heinrich I of Hessen and Mechtild von Kleve. After her death in 1319 he married Agnes von Brandenburg , daughter of Hermann von Brandenburg and widow Waldemars von Brandenburg . From his first marriage he had a daughter Agnes (1317 to June 2, 1371).

From 1318 to 1344 Otto the Mild and from 1323 to 1334 his wife Agnes owned the castle Calvörde and the market town of Calvörde .

With the death of Henry II, the last Ascanian Margrave of Brandenburg, in 1320, the Roman-German King Ludwig the Bavarian confiscated the Mark Brandenburg as a settled imperial fief and gave it to his first-born son Ludwig. Otto der Milde von Braunschweig had been assured a number of towns in the Altmark after a hereditary comparison with Ludwig the Bavarian. Later a new agreement was made, according to which the Altmark should completely revert to Ludwig after the deaths of Otto and Agnes. Ludwig tried to win supporters among the knighthood of the Altmark. The city of Braunschweig was among them. After the death of Duchess Agnes, the feuds between Ludwig and Otto the Mild widened, and he saw that the knighthood from the Altmark was behind Ludwig. He renounced the inheritance for 3,000 silver marks. In 1345, Ludwig complained that Albert von Alvensleben had taken the Calvörde Castle and the market town of Calvörde and destroyed 5 more villages. Albert acted on behalf of the new Brunswick Duke Magnus the Pious , who made inheritance claims on Calvörde and the Linderburg. The feuds came to a head and a battle broke out in 1347 in which Magnus the Pious was defeated.

After his death, his brothers Ernst and Magnus shared the inheritance. Ernst received the Principality of Göttingen and Magnus the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, which he ruled until his death in 1369. This division is important for the state of Braunschweig because it was ruled for the first time in the history of the state by its own duke.

See also

• Tribe list of the Guelphs
• Guelphs

literature

• Gudrun Pischke: Otto the Mild, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 542-543 .

Web links

Commons : Otto (Braunschweig-Göttingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991.

predecessor	Office	successor
Albrecht II.	Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Göttingen 1318–1344	Ernst I.
Albrecht II.	Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1318–1344	Magnus I.