Otto (Burgundy)

Otto of Burgundy . also Odo , (* probably 944 ; † 22/23 February 965 ) was Count of Auxerre and Duke of Burgundy from the Robertin family .

Life

Otto was the second son of Duke Hugo the Great and Hadwig of Saxony . Otto's older brother was Hugo Capet , later King of France and founder of the Capetian dynasty .

At the age of eleven, around Easter 955, he was married to Luitgard, daughter and heiress of princeps Giselbert of Burgundy . The marriage should end the conflict between his family and the Buvinids for supremacy in the Duchy of Burgundy . When his father-in-law died the year after the wedding, Otto formally gained complete control of Burgundy. However, his own father died that same year, leaving Otto behind under the age of majority. King Lothar used this circumstance to strengthen the royal position in Burgundy by occupying Dijon . The consequence was a permanent weakening of the ducal power, as this situation also used the vassals of Burgundy to fight for greater freedoms. Otto was only installed as Duke in Burgundy by King Lothar in 960. His rule was weak, which is why the chronicler Flodoard von Reims refrained from referring to Otto as Duke .

Otto's descendants are not known; after his death the duchy passed to his younger brother Heinrich the Great .

literature

• Maurice Chaume: Les origines du duché de Bourgogne . Première partie: Histoire politique . Jobard, Dijon 1925 (reprint: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1977, ISBN 3-511-04440-5 ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Giselbert	Duke of Burgundy 956–965	Henry the Great