Otto I. (Waldeck)

Tomb of Otto I.

Otto I († November 1305 ) was Count of Waldeck from about 1275/1276 to 1305 .

Life

Otto was the youngest son of Count Heinrich III. von Waldeck and his wife Mechthild von Cuyk-Arnsberg , a daughter of Count Gottfried III. from Arnsberg . He came from the Waldeck family .

Otto's eldest brother was Adolf II von Waldeck , who initially succeeded his grandfather Adolf I as regent of the county of Waldeck, but then abdicated, entered the clergy and was appointed Bishop of Liège in 1301 . The second brother was Gottfried , who later became Bishop of Minden . The brothers had made an agreement regarding the successor to their grandfather, stating that the Count of Waldeck who would marry Sophie von Hessen , daughter of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , should become Count von Waldeck . This condition was eventually met by the youngest brother; the marriage probably took place in 1275. Otto succeeded his brother Adolf, who had become a cleric, as the ruling Count of Waldeck.

Otto joined a Westphalian peace alliance in 1276 , but also continued his grandfather's policy of expansion towards the west. This was directed primarily against the Duchy of Westphalia , which was owned by the Archbishops of Cologne . In 1288, during the Limburg succession dispute , he and his knights took part in the battle of Worringen on the side of the enemies of Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg and thus on the side of Duke Johann I of Brabant , which resulted in Duke Johann's decisive victory Signed the end of the expansion efforts of the Cologne archbishops. In the course of this war Otto had the city of Hallenberg in Cologne destroyed. After winning the battle of Worringen, he received the city of Volkmarsen and half of the Kugelsburg .

The castle Canstein was, by purchase, waldeckisch part. The dishes Medebach , Brilon , Flechtdorf , Marsberg and Mederich were added in whole or in part . The castle Nordenau acquired Otto on 14 February 1298 by the Grafschafter noblemen power and wide child of County and threatened so that the city Winterberg . To round off the area around Korbach , he acquired fiefs on the upper Ruhr, in Assinghauser Grund and in Nuhnetal . He founded the city of Landau in 1290 . In 1297 Otto compared himself with the Abbot von Corvey in the dispute over the cities of Sachsenberg and Fürstenberg . A year later he was given the office of Münden by Corvey as a pledge. On the other hand, in the same year he renounced the rights to the city of Blankenrode and the associated mark to the Bishop of Paderborn . He was a patron of the Berich and Bredelar monasteries .

In November 1305 a feud broke out in Eichsfeld , where the Lords of Strive and Adelebsen opposed Heiligenstadt . Otto, who had also served the Archbishops of Mainz in the service of the Archbishops of Mainz since 1303 , was to assist Heiligenstadt. But he was captured, imprisoned and murdered.

He was buried in the grave chapel of St. Nicholas in the Marienthal monastery in Netze . The grave slab is made of sandstone and shows Otto as a knight with sword and shield. This bears the eight-pointed Waldecker star. Otto's murderers were rated eight and had to move to Otto's grave in Netze for atonement in 1312. Bishop Dietrich von Paderborn granted an indulgence of 40 days for all who made a pilgrimage to Otto's grave.

Marriage and offspring

Otto married Sophie, daughter of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , around 1275 . They had nine children together:

Heinrich , the eldest son, succeeded his father.
Adolf (III.) Became canon in Hildesheim .
Gottfried became canon in Mainz .
Eberhard became canon in Minden .
Ludwig became canon in Münster .
Mechthild married Eberhard III. from Breuberg .
Elisabeth married Count Dietrich III. (V.) from Hohnstein to Klettenberg.
Adelheid married Count Wilhelm I von Katzenelnbogen .
Otto, the youngest son, died in 1310; his grave slab can be found in the parish church in Höchst ad Mümling.

literature

Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen : Basis of the Waldeck country and regent history . Göttingen, 1825, pp. 337-348

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Kröpelin (arrangement): Korbacher Urkunden - Regesten, Volume 4 , Korbach City Archives, 1998, p. 40, No. 75.Document dated March 31, 1271.
↑ Ulrich Bockshammer: Older Territorialgeschichte der Grafschaft Waldeck, NG Elwert, Marburg, 1958, p. 126
↑ Wolfgang Medding: Two medieval grave monuments of the Count's House of Waldeck . In: History sheets for Waldeck . tape 52 , 1960, pp. 80-82 .
↑ G. v. Schenk zu Schweinsberg: The gravestone of Count Otto von Waldeck zu Höchst ad Mümling . In: Quarterly papers of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse . No. 2 . Darmstadt 1876.
↑ 1323 is often wrongly given as the year of death.

personal data
SURNAME	Otto I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Otto I. von Waldeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Waldeck (1273 / 1276–1305)
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	November 1305

[1] Bernd Kröpelin (arrangement): Korbacher Urkunden - Regesten, Volume 4 , Korbach City Archives, 1998, p. 40, No. 75.Document dated March 31, 1271.

[2] Ulrich Bockshammer: Older Territorialgeschichte der Grafschaft Waldeck, NG Elwert, Marburg, 1958, p. 126

[3] Wolfgang Medding: Two medieval grave monuments of the Count's House of Waldeck . In: History sheets for Waldeck . tape 52 , 1960, pp. 80-82 .

[4] G. v. Schenk zu Schweinsberg: The gravestone of Count Otto von Waldeck zu Höchst ad Mümling . In: Quarterly papers of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse . No. 2 . Darmstadt 1876.

[5] 1323 is often wrongly given as the year of death.