Otto IV. (Bavaria)

Otto IV (born January 3, 1307 ; † December 14, 1334 in Munich ) was Duke of Lower Bavaria from 1310 to 1334 .

Life

Otto was the son of Stephen I . He ruled together with his brother Heinrich XIV. (II.) And his cousin Heinrich XV. (III.) The partial duchy of Lower Bavaria. In 1330 he married Richarda von Jülich . In 1322 he waged war against the other two dukes of Lower Bavaria, between whom tensions often arose.

When the rulership was finally divided up between the regents in 1331 , Otto received the partial duchy called Bavaria-Burghausen , which in addition to Burghausen also included Ötting , Traunstein , Hall and the Salzburg region. He resided in Burghausen. Since he hated his brother Heinrich, he bequeathed his property to Emperor Ludwig to Bavaria . When he died in 1334, Heinrich XIV appropriated Bayern-Burghausen without Ludwig IV doing anything about it. After the early death of Johann I , the son of Heinrich XIV., At the age of eleven, however, all of Lower Bavaria fell to Ludwig IV in 1340, while the Archdiocese of Salzburg developed into its own territorial state in Ludwig's time.

literature

• Old Bavaria . The territorial state from the end of the 12th century to the end of the 18th century. In: Max Spindler (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte . tape 2 . Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , p. 170 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Stephan I.	Duke of Lower Bavaria 1310–1334	Henry XIV.