Otto II (Waldeck)

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Otto II. (* Before 1307 ; † 1369 ) was Count von Waldeck from 1344 to 1369 .

family

Otto was the son of Count Heinrich IV. Von Waldeck and Adelheid von Kleve . He came from the Waldeck house . In 1339 he married Mechthild (Mathilde), daughter of Duke Otto III. from Braunschweig-Lüneburg . The son and heir Heinrich VI went out of the marriage . and the daughters Sophie, a nun in Volkhardinghausen , and Anna († 1383), married to Simon III. to the lip. His wife died before him, at the latest in 1357. Soon afterwards Otto married his second wife, Margarethe, widow of nobleman Heinemann von Itter, who was murdered in 1356 . No children from this marriage are known.

Regency

Otto II was already co-regent of his father from 1332. After Otto's withdrawal from the government, Otto became the sole ruling count in 1344. In 1345 he concluded an "eternal alliance" with Archbishop Heinrich von Mainz . As in the time of his predecessors, there were disagreements with the Cologne archbishops in their capacity as dukes of Westphalia . This dispute was settled by settlement in 1346.

In 1349 Otto was enfeoffed with the county of Waldeck by the Roman-German King and later Emperor Karl IV . He was raised to the rank of imperial count . After the death of his father-in-law in 1354, he laid claim to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , but Wilhelm was able to secure his brother's successor. Emperor Karl IV obliged Wilhelm to pay Otto a high level of compensation, but this did not happen.

After Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz and Landgrave Heinrich II of Hesse had taken over most of the Itter rule in 1357, the Archbishop of Mainz pledged his share of the same to Count Otto for 1000 marks of soldered silver from Fritzlar. In 1381 Otto passed this pledge on to Thile I. Wolff von Gudenberg , who two years later also received the Hessian part in pledge possession and whose descendants kept the Itter rule until 1542/1562.

On July 8, 1358 Otto, still under the influence of the severe plague epidemic of 1349, commissioned members of the Order of St. John from Wiesenfeld to set up a hospital in Niederwildungen . For this purpose he donated his old mill farm on the Wilde between the two cities of Niederwildungen and Altwildungen. The small hospital was built between 1358 and 1369. In 1372 it became the Johanniter-Kommende Wildungen .

In 1368 the Landgrave and the Archbishop allied against Otto and his son Heinrich in order to wrest the Friedrichstein Castle in Wildungen from them. The Waldeckers were sentenced to damages by an arbitration tribunal for violating the hereditary alliance concluded with Mainz.

Nothing is known about Otto's final resting place.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1339 Count Heinrich IV. Von Waldeck prescribed his daughter-in-law Mechthild (Mathilde) for personal breeding of the castle and town of Rhoden with pensions. ( Schmillinghausen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) .; Recklinghausen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in the historical local dictionary Hessen ).
  2. ^ Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte. Göttingen, 1825, p. 416
  3. ↑ Some sources name Kunigunde, daughter of Heinemann von Itter, instead of her.
  4. ^ Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte. Göttingen, 1825 (p. 387)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Otto II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto II von Waldeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Waldeck (1344-1369)
DATE OF BIRTH between 1304 and 1307
DATE OF DEATH 1369