Otto I. (Lebenau)

Otto I († March 8, 1205 ) came from the side branch of the Counts of Lebenau of the Spanheim family . After the death of his brother Siegfried III. in 1191 he followed this as Count von Lebenau and as Vogt of the Salzburg Cathedral Monastery and the monasteries of St. Emmeram and Seeon .

Live and act

Otto I was the youngest son of Siegfried II von Lebenau and Mathilde von Valley .

When his father died around 1163, Otto and his brother Siegfried III. were still a minor. It was not until 1174 that both appeared as Counts of Lebenau.

Together with his brother Otto takes part in the meeting on St. Georgsberg in Enns in 1186 . He appears there as a witness for Duke Ottokar IV's Georgenberger Handfeste , in which the succession for the Duchy of Styria was regulated.

When his brother took part in the Third Crusade in 1189 , he took over the administration of the county. Siegfried III died a year later. childless on the crusade, after which Otto inherited his property and became Count von Lebenau.

In the course of his reign, Otto expanded his property to the right of the Salzach and appropriated the sovereign rights of the Burgraves of Haunsberg . These had been in Otto's service since 1190. Gottschalk II von Haunsberg bequeathed the possessions to Otto early on, as he realized that he would probably die without a male heir.

In 1200 Otto I made a donation to the Salzburg Cathedral Chapter , which was partly intended as compensation for attacks on the Bailiwick.

Otto I died on March 8, 1205, followed by his eldest son Siegfried IV as acting count.

progeny

Otto I was married to Eufemia von Dornberg's first marriage. The following child comes from this marriage:

• Siegfried IV. († December 17, 1210), Count of Lebenau

His second marriage was to Sophie von Plain . The following children were born from this marriage:

• Bernhard I († April 17, 1229), Count of Lebenau
• NN daughter, ∞ Ulrich II. Von Peggau († 1249), Count von Pfannberg

literature

• Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, No. 36, Passau 1994 (p. 9 -62).

Web links

• Direct family tree of those from Lebenau
• Family tree of the Spanheimers with branch of the Counts of Lebenau

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried III.	Count of Lebenau 1191–1205	Siegfried IV.