Otto I. (Ravensberg)

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Otto I († around 1170 ) from the family of the Counts of Calvelage was Count of Ravensberg from 1141/44 . He was the first to name himself after Ravensberg Castle .

family

He was a son of Count Hermann I von Ravensberg and von Calvelage and Judith von Zutphen, daughter of Count Otto . He himself was married to a Uda (or Oda). With this he had at least one son who succeeded him as Hermann II von Ravensberg († 1221).

Life

It appears for the first time in a document from Archbishop Arnold of Cologne in 1141. In 1152 he witnessed as Henry the Lion the monastery Scheda confirmed the possession of a chapel. Together with his brother Heinrich, he was a witness in 1158 at the issuance of the imperial freedom certificates for the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen . Together with his son Hermann and his brother, he donated his inherited Flaesheim estate to found the Flaesheim Monastery .

Overall, he can be found in the vicinity of a number of emperors, princes and bishops. So he was in 1145 together with King Konrad III. present in Aachen . At New Year 1158 he was with Friedrich Barbarossa in Goslar . Together with his brother Heinrich he was at the imperial court in Kaiserswerth in the same year . In addition to the opportunities already mentioned, Otto could also be found in 1163 and 1168 in the vicinity of Henry the Lion. In addition to the archbishops of Cologne , he is also mentioned together with the bishops of Münster , Osnabrück and Paderborn .

He was mentioned for the last time in a document as a witness in the foundation letter of Archbishop Philipp von Heinsberg for the Bredelar Monastery in 1170.

The war acts described by later chroniclers, for example in Friesland around old rights and against the Counts of Tecklenburg, cannot be derived from documented sources .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Medieval Genealogy in the German Empire ( Memento from March 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Heinrich Haarland: Diplomatic history of the castle and the old count house Ravensberg. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity vol. 1/1838 pp. 172–173
  • W. Tobien: Memories from the past of Westphalia. Vol. 1, 1st department Elberfeld, 1869 pp. 211-213

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personal data
SURNAME Otto I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto I. von Ravensberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Ravensberg
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1170