Otto II (Baden-Hachberg)

Round seal of Margrave Otto II of Baden-Hachberg from the years 1412/1413

Otto II of Baden-Hachberg († 1418 ) was 1410-1415 the last Margrave of Hachberg and Lord of Höhingen .

Life

Otto was born the son of Hesso von Baden-Hachberg and Agnes von Geroldseck . The documents do not attest to marriage or children. After his brothers Heinrich and Hesso and his uncle, Johann died, Otto inherited the margraviate alone in 1410.

The margraviate was heavily in debt and since he had no offspring, Otto looked for a buyer for his land among his relatives. His brother-in-law Friedrich VIII von Leiningen-Dagsburg was himself constantly in debt and therefore left. His cousin Rudolf of the Sausenberg branch referred him to his distant cousin, Margrave Bernhard von Baden , who bought the Margraviate Hachberg on July 25, 1415 for 80,000 Rhenish guilders .

Despite the sale, Otto called himself Margrave von Hachberg until his death in 1418. The Höhingen Castle allowed Otto to use until death. With him the house of Baden-Hachberg died out.

See also

Otto III. von Hachberg (or Otto II. von Hachberg-Sausenberg) - there is a possibility of confusion.

literature

• Johann Christian Sachs : Introduction to the history of the Marggravschaft and the Marggravial old princely house of Baden . First part. Lotter, Carlsruhe 1764, p. 471–475 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Regesta of the Margraves of Baden and Hachberg 1050–1515 , edited by the Baden Historical Commission, edited by Richard Fester , first volume, Innsbruck 1892, h53 – h59 online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Richard Fester: The acquisition of the dominions Hachberg and Höhingen by Margrave Bernhard I of Baden , in: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine Volume 49, 1895, pp. 650–667 in the Internet Archive
• Thomas Alfried Leger: Hochberg, Hachberg. In: AG Hoffmann: Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , Second Section, Part Nine, Leipzig 1832, p. 117 Google Digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Sachs p. 474 he is also sometimes called Otto III. if Otto I. (Hachberg-Sausenberg) is counted as well.
2. ^ Richard Fester: Margrave Bernhard I and the beginnings of the Baden territorial state. In: Badische Neujahrsblätter, sixth sheet 1896, pp. 91–93 in the Internet Archive
3. ↑ s. Sachs p. 473
4. ^ Entry Margrave Otto von Hochberg sells the dominions of Hochberg and Hohingen to Margrave Bernhard zu Baden for 80,000 guilders. Discover regional studies online - leobw

predecessor	Office	successor
Hesso	Margrave of Baden-Hachberg 1410–1415	Bernhard I of Baden as Margrave of Baden