Otto II of Utrecht

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Otto II von Lippe (Frederik Zürcher, 1825–1876).

Otto II von Lippe († July 28, 1227 in Ane near Coevorden ) was Bishop of Utrecht .

The son of Count von der Lippe Bernhard II was provost in Utrecht. He owed his choice to the closely linked influence of Holland and Gelderland .

As a warlike lord he took the cross in 1217 and took part in King Andrew's crusade from Hungary to Syria . He returned in 1222 and was immediately involved in a dispute with the powerful neighbors Holland and Gelderland. After a long, changing war, in which most of the vassals of the monastery took part in the Veluwe and Salland, the conflict was ended through the mediation of the papal legate . The bishop lost several places in Gelderland to the count. The turmoil in Drenthe , where the castle Count Rudolf of Coevorden, the episcopal authority defied what closely with the party struggles in Groningen and the Frisian districts was related to the environment, but it forced to seek a support from the powerful neighbor. The military expedition that he undertook at the head of a sizeable army of knights against the free Drenthe peasants (the counts and bishops had joined the neighborhood in person, some had moved in, while the Utrecht, Geldrian, Bentheimer and Salland knights rushed to battle with joy ), ended with the famous defeat in the Battle of Ane in 1227, near Coevorden. The episcopal army got into a quagmire, in which the knights with their heavy armor helplessly succumbed to the peasants' bullets and strokes, and, as is said, their wives, and were almost wiped out. The Count of Gelderland and many nobles and clergymen were taken prisoner, the bishop, held in the mud while fleeing, cruelly mutilated and murdered.

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predecessor Office successor
Otto I. von Geldern Bishop of Utrecht
1216–1227 		Wilbrand of Oldenburg
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SURNAME Otto II of Utrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto II of Lippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Utrecht
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1227
Place of death Ane at Coevorden