Otto I. (Nassau)

The coat of arms of the Counts of Nassau from the Ottonian line

Otto I of Nassau († between May 3, 1289 and March 19, 1290) was Count of Nassau and the founder of the Ottonian line of the House of Nassau .

Life

Sloss victories

Altenberg Monastery

Otto was the third son of Count Heinrich II von Nassau and Mathilde von Geldern and Zütphen , the youngest daughter of Count Otto I. von Geldern and Zütphen and Richardis von Scheyern-Wittelsbach . Otto is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1247.

Before January 25, 1251 Otto and his brother Walram II succeeded his father. 1251 they received from King William the town charter for the city of Herborn .

Walram and Otto divided their county on December 16, 1255 with the Lahn as the border. The division agreement is known today as the prima divisio . The area north of the Lahn: the gentlemen Siegen , Dillenburg , Herborn, Tringenstein , Neukirch and Emmerichenhain , part of Kalenberger Zent ( Office Kalenberg) and the deaneries Dietkirchen and (Bad) EMS , Otto were assigned. The Burg Nassau and dependencies (Dreiherrische), the posts Miehlen and Schönau ( Kloster Schönau at Strüth ) and the four Mr court , the Burg Laurenburg that Esterau (co-owned with the counts of Diez ) and the fief in Hesse , remained in the Commonly Owned .

Protecting and safeguarding his rights in his country was not always easy for Otto, especially at a time when the power of a supreme patron in the empire had sunk deeply. Disputes with the Lords of Westerburg and the Counts of Sayn over rights in the Westerwald , with the Lords of Greifenstein and those of Dernbach over various sovereign powers often led to feuds and struggles. The details of the course of these feuds are unknown. In his feud with the Archbishop of Trier , Otto lost the bailiwicks over Koblenz and Ems.

Otto's relationship with Archbishop Siegfried of Cologne also remains unclear , against whom he entered into an alliance with various lords in Westphalia on April 8, 1277 , but whose ally he was in the Limburg succession dispute .

Particular disgust arose Otto from the endeavor to reduce the rich donations from his father to the German order or at least not to increase them according to the wishes of the order. In 1285 he was designated as a robber of the goods of the order and was banned from church and his country was given an interdict , until the dispute was settled a year later.

Before 1287 Otto founded the chapel in Feldbach . ʻOttho comes de Nassawen ... cum uxore nostra Agnete nec non Henrico nostro primogenitoʼ confirmed the donation of ʻbonorum in Hasilbach et Aldindorphʼ to Altenberg monastery near Wetzlar by ʻmatrem nostram Methildim comitissam bone mem ... cum sorore nostra Katherina ibidem locataʼ in a document dated May 3rd, 1989 This is the last mention of Otto, in a document dated March 19, 1290 he is considered dead. He was buried in the Altenberg monastery, where the stone figure of the nobleman is still preserved from the tomb. He was followed by his sons Heinrich , Emich and Johann .

progeny

Otto married Agnes von Leiningen († after December 1299), daughter of Count Emich IV. Von Leiningen and Elisabeth , before 1270 . Agnes was buried in the Altenberg monastery.
From this marriage emerged:

Heinrich (* around 1270; † between July 13 and August 14, 1343), successor to his father, became Count of Nassau-Siegen in 1303 .
Mathilda († before October 28, 1319), ⚭ around 1289 Gerhard von Schönecken († 1317).
Emich († June 7, 1334), his father's successor, became Count of Nassau-Hadamar in 1303 .
Otto († September 3, 1302), was Canon of Worms in 1294.
Johann († bei Hermannstein , August 10, 1328), his father's successor, became Count of Nassau-Dillenburg in 1303 .
Gertrud († September 19, 1359), was the abbess of Altenberg Monastery.

Out of wedlock child

Otto also had an illegitimate son:

Heinrich von Nassau († before 1314), was mayor . This Heinrich had a son:
1. Arnold von Nassau, mentioned in a document in 1314.

literature

Eduard Ausfeld: Otto I., Count of Nassau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 707 f.
E. Becker: Castle and City of Dillenburg. A walk through their history in the Middle Ages and modern times. Published for the commemoration of the city charter on September 20, 1344 . 2nd Edition. The City Council of Dillenburg, Dillenburg 1983.
AWE Dek: Genealogy van het Vorstenhuis Nassau . Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel 1970 (Dutch).
Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. & B. Magdelaine: l'Allemagne Dynastique. Tome III Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg . Alain Giraud, Le Perreux 1981 (French).
Alfred Lück: Siegerland and Nederland . 2nd Edition. Siegerländer Heimatverein eV, Siegen 1981.
AP van Schilfgaarde: Zegels en genealogische Gegevens van de graven en hertogen van Gelre, graven van Zutphen . S. Gouda Quint - D. Brouwer en Zoon, Arnhem 1967 (Dutch).
AA Vorsterman van Oyen: Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden dead . AW Sijthoff & JL Beijers, Leiden & Utrecht 1882 (Dutch).

Web links

The founder of the Orange Line is buried on the Altenberg In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, April 11, 2016.
genealogie-mittelalter.de
Nassau In: Medieval Lands. A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families , compiled by Charles Cawley.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Dek (1970).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Cawley.
↑ Van Schilfgaarde (1967).
↑ ^a ^b Becker (1983), p. 11.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Huberty, et al. (1981).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ausfeld (1887).
↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): "Before 1224 the Counts of Nassau had transferred half of the city of Siegen to the Archdiocese of Cologne."
↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): "Heinrich I von Nassau-Siegen owned the entire Herborner Mark in 1342."
↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): "Nassau castle and office were called Dreiherrische because until 1778 it was owned by the Ottonian line and two branches of the Walram line (Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg)."
↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): “The offices of Miehlen and Schönau remained in common ownership until 1303. Then they were moved to the Walram line, where both side lines owned them together until 1778. "
↑ Huberty, et al. (1981): “The four-man court was named after its four owners, the Counts of Katzenelnbogen (Hesse), Diez (Nassau-Diez), Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg. In 1774 these areas, which had come together around the town of Nastatten and consisted of 38 villages, were divided. "
↑ Becker (1983), p. 7th
↑ The founder of the Orange Line is buried on the Altenberg In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, April 11, 2016.
↑ A wedding date is not mentioned anywhere. According to Dek (1970), the eldest son of the marriage was born around 1270, so the marriage must be concluded before 1270.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry II	Count of Nassau before 1251–1289 / 90	Henry III. Emich I. Johann

personal data
SURNAME	Otto I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Nassau
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	between 1289 and 1290

[dek-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Dek (1970).

[vorsterman-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).

[cawley-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Cawley.

[4] Van Schilfgaarde (1967).

[becker-5] Becker (1983), p. 11.

[huberty-6] Huberty, et al. (1981).

[ausfeld-7] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ausfeld (1887).

[8] Huberty, et al. (1981): "Before 1224 the Counts of Nassau had transferred half of the city of Siegen to the Archdiocese of Cologne."

[9] Huberty, et al. (1981): "Heinrich I von Nassau-Siegen owned the entire Herborner Mark in 1342."

[10] Huberty, et al. (1981): "Nassau castle and office were called Dreiherrische because until 1778 it was owned by the Ottonian line and two branches of the Walram line (Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg)."

[11] Huberty, et al. (1981): “The offices of Miehlen and Schönau remained in common ownership until 1303. Then they were moved to the Walram line, where both side lines owned them together until 1778. "

[12] Huberty, et al. (1981): “The four-man court was named after its four owners, the Counts of Katzenelnbogen (Hesse), Diez (Nassau-Diez), Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg. In 1774 these areas, which had come together around the town of Nastatten and consisted of 38 villages, were divided. "

[13] Becker (1983), p. 7th

[14] The founder of the Orange Line is buried on the Altenberg In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, April 11, 2016.

[15] A wedding date is not mentioned anywhere. According to Dek (1970), the eldest son of the marriage was born around 1270, so the marriage must be concluded before 1270.