Otto I. (Carinthia)
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 |
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Heinrich II. Heinrich III. |
Duke of Carinthia Margrave of Verona 978–983 995–1004 |
Henry III. Konrad I. |
personal data | |
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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 |