Otto I. (Carinthia)

Duke Otto on the family table of the Ottonians (Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis, 2nd half of the 12th century. Duke August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 74.3 Aug., pag. 226)

Otto I. , Duke of Carinthia , called Otto von Worms (* around 948 , † November 4, 1004 ) was the only son of Salier Konrad des Roten , Duke of Lorraine , and his wife Liutgard von Sachsen (931–953), who Daughter of Emperor Otto I with his first wife Edgitha .

He was Count in Speyergau , Wormsgau , Elsenzgau , Kraichgau , Enzgau , Pfinzgau and Ufgau , and in 956 Count in Nahegau . From 978 to 983 and from 995 to 1004 he was Duke of Carinthia . In 995, after the death of Heinrich the Quarrel , he received the Mark Verona with the Duchy of Carinthia . He was one of the candidates for the king's election in 1002.

In 977 (or 987 - sources are uncertain) he founded the Lambrecht monastery in Speyergau . At the same time he had the pilgrimage site of St. Philip of Zell in Zell near Worms, which was devastated during the Hungarian invasions , renovated. Around the year 1000 he founded the Sinsheim Abbey .

In October 1002 Otto gives up the Salian possessions and the Salierburg in Worms at the urging of Heinrich II. As a replacement, the King attributed the Bruchsal royal court with its possessions and the royal forest of Lußhardt to the Salians .

His burial place is unknown. Bruchsal , Carinthia, St. Lambrecht or Sinsheim are named as possible burial sites .

Otto was married to Judith von Kärnten († 991), with whom he had four sons:

Heinrich von Worms († 989/1000), Count in Wormsgau, ∞ Adelheid († probably 1039/1046, sister of Count Adalbert and Gerhard from the Matfride family )
Bruno (* 972; † 999), from 996 Pope Gregory V.
Konrad von Kärnten († 1011), Duke of Carinthia , ∞ around 1002 Mathilde von Schwaben (* probably 988; † 1031/1032), daughter of Duke Hermann II from the house of the Conradines
Wilhelm († 1046/1047), from 1028 or 1029 Bishop of Strasbourg

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Weinfurter: The Century of the Salians (1024-1125) . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 978-3-7995-4105-3 , p. 23 .
^ Stefan Weinfurter: Herrschaft und Reich der Salier , Sigmaringen 1992, p. 21.
↑ Hans Fell: Lambrecht commemorates Herzog Otto , in: Lambrecht Talpost 46, 2004, p. 7.
↑ Kurt Lembach: Herzog Otto von Worms , in: Lambrecht Heimathefte 1, 2004, p. 21.
↑ Ludwig H. Hildebrandt and Nicolai Knauer: The early Romanesque monastery church in Sinsheim an der Elsenz, a previously overlooked rarity . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research . Episode 21, 2009, ed. from Heimatverein Kraichgau, p. 141.

literature

Hubertus Seibert : Otto v. Worms, Duke v. Carinthia. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 688 f. ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich II. Heinrich III.	Duke of Carinthia Margrave of Verona 978–983 995–1004	Henry III. Konrad I.

personal data
SURNAME	Otto I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Otto von Worms
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Carinthia (978–983 and 995–1002)
DATE OF BIRTH	around 948
DATE OF DEATH	November 4, 1004

[1] Stefan Weinfurter: The Century of the Salians (1024-1125) . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 978-3-7995-4105-3 , p. 23 .

[2] Stefan Weinfurter: Herrschaft und Reich der Salier , Sigmaringen 1992, p. 21.

[3] Hans Fell: Lambrecht commemorates Herzog Otto , in: Lambrecht Talpost 46, 2004, p. 7.

[4] Kurt Lembach: Herzog Otto von Worms , in: Lambrecht Heimathefte 1, 2004, p. 21.

[5] Ludwig H. Hildebrandt and Nicolai Knauer: The early Romanesque monastery church in Sinsheim an der Elsenz, a previously overlooked rarity . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research . Episode 21, 2009, ed. from Heimatverein Kraichgau, p. 141.