Otto II (Haslau)

Otto II von Haslau (in his own name Otto de Haslow , * around 1195, † between December 13, 1287 and February 5, 1289) from the Haslauer knightly family was a follower of Frederick the Arguable , city ministerial and castle captain in Bruck an der Leitha , supreme District judge, member of the Twelve Lords Council and temporarily governor in the Duchy of Styria .

Life

Lettering of Otto II von Haslau from a document that he sent to the Heiligenkreuz Monastery of December 13, 1287

Otto II. Was born the son of Otto I von Haslau - Gallbrunn and his unknown wife, Otto and Gertrud von Gallbrunn are considered to be his grandparents. His father Otto I appears in a document from 1192 as Ministeriale of Babenberg Duke Leopold VI. , so it seems obvious that Otto II received his sword leadership at his court. In the first half of the 13th century Otto II is mentioned several times as a follower of the last Babenberger, Friedrich II, the controversial. After his death in the Battle of the Leitha in 1246, Otto II was able to fight for a strong political position in the subsequent Austrian interregnum, which would subsequently enable him to express an important opinion on the question of succession. This enabled him to hold important offices in the Austrian territories during the reign of the Přemyslid Ottokar .

Due to his influential position and the fact that he was with Leopold VI. and Friedrich II experienced two Babenberg dukes and was therefore familiar with the customary law of the time, several important offices were assigned to him. Under Ottokar II, he initially held the office of Supreme Judge in Austria before becoming a member of the Twelve Lords Council, which ruled the country in the absence of the Duke. In the years 1269 and 1270 Otto II appears as governor of Styria . He also worked as the city ministerial and later as the castle captain in Bruck an der Leitha.

Otto II. Von Haslau is regularly documented as a witness and thus as a sealer of contemporary documents, for example in a deed of gift from the Roman Queen Margarete to the Teutonic Brothers in 1249, a confirmation of the possessions of Melk Abbey by Ottokar II. Přemysl from 1256 or one Document confirmation of King Rudolf I from the year 1277. The heraldic animal of Otto II was probably an upright black wolf walking to the left on a golden background, the so-called Passau wolf , as his brother Wulfing von Haschendorf also led him in the shield, at least that arouses in the Originally preserved seal on a privilege of Albrecht I giving the appearance of a wolf. In Johann Siebmacher's Large Wappenbuch from 1605 and 1609, the von Haslau men - at least the later ones - used a hare in the heraldic animal, which probably resulted in a talking coat of arms .

Presumably Otto II spent most of his life in Bruck an der Leitha and Vienna , where he owned houses. Two of his houses in Vienna are occupied on Schenkenstrasse and Renngasse. Otto II received his final resting place in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey , where his tombstone can still be seen today.

Seal of the Lords of Haslau on a document from Otto, Heinrich and Chadolts von Haslau dated February 5, 1289

Battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen

After Rudolf I von Habsburg was elected King of the Holy Roman Empire in 1273 , Otto II von Haslau - like most sovereigns of his time - sided with the new sovereign and turned against Ottokar II Přemysl. The transfer of the Fischamend regional court to him in 1278 by King Rudolf as compensation for the payment of a wine delivery proves that Otto II was responsible for catering for the Habsburg armed forces. When Rudolf I and Ottokar II Přemysl were looking for a decision in their dispute over rule in Austria on the battlefield, the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen broke out in 1278 , in which around 25,000 men from Ottokar, 30,000 men from King Rudolf and his ally, Ladislaus IV . of Hungary . Otto II von Haslau is documented as the standard bearer of the armed forces of King Rudolf in this battle. At the time of the battle, Otto II was already around 80 years old. His appearance as a standard-bearer during the battle several times literary occupied, even at Ottokar the Geul OUZ , the beginning of the 14th century in his Styrian Reimchronik writes: ". Nu waz sin old furwar / vil mere denne hundred jar" More find mentions among other things also with Jans von Wien in his two works, the world chronicle and the prince book , with Seifried Helbling (" Er was benamen garertrieu / biderb und wolzug / er hiet ze hof nimer lied / um deheiner slate guot "), as well in Franz Grillparzer's work King Ottokar's Glück und Ende , where he appears as the standard bearer in the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen. After Ottokar's death, Otto II was able to maintain his influential position among the Habsburgs.

Family and descendants

Only his father, Otto I., is known of Otto's parents. He also had several brothers, of whom Wulfing von Haschendorf, who fell in a duel in a battle against the Hungarians off Purbach , Haymar and Walter, who was captured by Hungary on the Raab , are known by name. Wulfing von Haschendorf is buried in the Minorite Church in Vienna. Otto II was married to Elisabeth, with whom he had two daughters (Elisabeth and Jutta) and six sons (Otto III, Wulfing, Chadolt, Heinrich, Seifried and Schaftlanus). Chadolt seems to have taken control of Haslau after Otto's death, who, through his marriage to Agnes von Rauheneck, transferred some of the property to the Lords of Kranichberg , who were in control of Petronell at the time , which is confirmed in a sales contract from 1392 becomes. The Haslau family died out in 1463 with Bernhard von Haslau, the succession of the Haslau family came to the lords of Kranichberg, Schönkirchen and Starhemberg .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Kugler: Haslau / Donau-Maria Ellend in old time , 1998, p. 28.
2. ^ Herbert Kugler: Haslau / Donau-Maria Ellend in old time , 1998, p. 29.
3. ↑ Governors of Styria. ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 19, 2012. 
4. ↑ Documents Otto II. Von Haslau in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
5. ↑ Herbert Kugler: Haslau / Donau-Maria Ellend in old time , 1998, p. 28 f.
6. ^ Herbert Kugler: Haslau / Donau-Maria Ellend in old time , 1998, p. 34.
7. ↑ Chronicle of Haslau-Maria Ellend , accessed on July 19, 2012.