Otto II of Scheyern

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Otto II von Scheyern († October 31, 1120 , probably on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem ) was Count von Scheyern , founder of the monastery and guardian of the monastery.

Life

origin

Otto II von Scheyern was a son of Otto I von Scheyern and Haziga von Dissen and brother of Bernhard I von Scheyern , Ekkehard I von Scheyern and Arnold I von Scheyern .

Some sources also state him as the son of Otto I von Scheyern's first marriage with a sister of Count Meginhard von Reichersbeuern .

Other names

Due to his father's other counting method, he is also known as Otto III. listed.

Act

Around 1053 he was the leader of the opposition of the Bavarian nation against the appointment of the three-year-old Henry VII as Duke of Bavaria by his father Heinrich III.

From around 1078 he was Count von Scheyern.

When the call for the first crusade began in 1096 , Otto II and his brother Ekkehard I volunteered to participate. In 1101 he set out for Palestine and returned to his homeland.

With the death of his mother in 1104, he moved the Fischbachau monastery to Petersberg near Dachau. A new monastery church was built there. With this he founded the Sankt Peters Kloster Eisenhofen . Because the location, like the one in Fischbachau, was not suitable for a monastery; there was a constant lack of water; Otto II. gathered all family members in 1113 to decide whether the Scheyern family castle could be converted into a monastery. This should bring together the numerous Benedictine monasteries in the family . This was approved and in 1119 the monastery was relocated to Scheyern and the castle was handed over to the Benedictines.

With the death of Bernhard I von Scheyern, he became Vogt of Freising from 1104 . From 1116 he was Vogt of Weihenstephan .

family

The sources provide different information on marital status. Sometimes it is assumed that he remained unmarried and / or without offspring. It is also documented that he married Richardis or Richgardis von Istrien-Krain , daughter of Ulrich I , whom he kidnapped from a monastery near Regensburg . The following children were born from the marriage:

literature

  • Graphics Family tree of the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach-Dachau-Valley from the lecture Prof. Schmid: Bavaria in the late Middle Ages WS 1996/97 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Ziegler: King Conrad III. (1138-1152): court, documents and politics . Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77647-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 30, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Franz Sebastian Meidinger: Historical-chronological stories of the former Land- and Hoftäge in Baiern: with annotations, then a small chronicle and inventory from the old armory of the now capital and university town of Landshut . Publishing house d. Author, 1802 ( google.de [accessed on January 31, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Rupert Leiß: The Scheyrer Cross or thorough instruction on the part of the true cross of Christ that has been kept at Scheyern Monastery in Upper Bavaria for around 700 years: together with an appendix of times of day, masses, litany, hymns of praise, devotion to the Way of the Cross and other prayers . Kremer, 1871 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Youth papers Munich: 1858 . Schnell & Steiner, 1858 ( google.de [accessed on January 29, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b Friedrich Hektor von Hundt: Scheyern Monastery, its oldest records, its possessions: A contribution to the history of the House of Scheyern-Wittelsbach . Franz in Komm., 1862 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Calendar for Catholic Christians: on d. Year ... 1842 . Seidel, 1842 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Karl Hopf: Historical-genealogical atlas: From the birth of Christ to our time . Perthes, 1858 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Otto II of Scheyern
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto III. from Scheyern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Scheyern, monastery founder and guardian of the monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Scheyern
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1120