Otto I of Salm

Otto I. von Salm (* around 1080 ; † 1150 ) was Count von Rheineck and from 1125 to 1137 Count Palatine of the Rhine .

His parents were the German rival king Hermann von Salm and Sophia von Formbach , from one of the families most loyal to the Pope.

Otto married Gertrud von Northeim (widow of Count Palatine Siegfried ), daughter and heiress of Margrave Heinrich the Fat of Friesland and Count of Nordheim and Gertrud von Braunschweig , sister of Richenza Rich Emperor Lothar III. He built Rheineck Castle and named himself Otto von Rheineck after this castle around 1124. After the death of his stepson, the Count Palatine Wilhelm von Ballenstedt , Otto claimed the Rhineland Palatinate for himself, but the newly elected King Konrad III in 1138 . moved in the Palatinate as a settled fiefdom and gave it to his brother-in-law Hermann von Stahleck . Otto was able to secure Treis and Rheineck Castle for himself until 1148 and 1151 respectively. In 1148 open battle broke out between the adversaries. Treis Castle came to the Archbishopric of Trier , Rheineck Castle was destroyed in 1151 by King Konrad.

Progeny:

• Otto II. (* Around 1115; † 1149); opened the battle for the Palatinate against Hermann von Stahleck , fell into his hands in 1148 and was strangled in the same or the following year on the Schönburg near Oberwesel .
• Sophie († 1176); got married
  • ⚭ 1.) Dietrich VI. of Holland († August 6, 1157) ( Gerulfinger )
  • ⚭ 2.) possibly Albrecht the Bear (* around 1100, † 1170), the first margrave and founder of the Mark Brandenburg .
• Beatrix; married Wilbrand I. von Loccum-Hallermund , Margrave of Friesland.

literature

• Johann Christian von Stramberg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius , III. Department, Volume 5, R. F. Hergt, Coblenz 1858, p. 490 ff. ( Google Books )

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm von Ballenstedt	Count Palatine near the Rhine 1140	Henry II of Austria