Otto V. von Scheyern

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Count Palatine Otto IV von Wittelsbach as founder of the Ensdorf Monastery

Otto V. von Scheyern , according to another counting method Otto IV. Von Scheyern , (* 1083/1084 ; † August 4, 1156 ) comes from the dynasty of the Counts of Scheyern , whose name is due to the move to Wittelsbach Castle under his father in Count of Wittelsbach changed.

Life

origin

He was the eldest son of Ekkehardt I von Scheyern and Richgard von Krain-Orlamünde and brother of Ekkehard II von Scheyern and Udalrich I von Scheyern .

Act

From 1110 to 1111 Otto V was in the First Italian Campaign in the entourage of Henry V.

In 1113, his initiative led to all relatives and other owners agreeing that the original ancestral castle of the von Scheyern family could be converted into a monastery. When the ancestral seat of the von Scheyern family was relocated to Wittelsbach Castle near Aichach , Otto has been calling himself after this place since 1116. He was thus the namesake for the ruling house of the Wittelsbachers, who ruled Bavaria until 1918.

In 1116 Otto became Count Palatine in Bavaria. He vogged Scheyern , Geisenfeld , Kühbach , St. Ulrich , Weihenstephan and the Hochstift Freising . In 1121 he became Vogt of Ensdorf and Indersdorf .

On May 23, 1123 he founded the monastery in Ensdorf. He felt obliged to do so, since he had participated in the capture of Pope Paschalis in 1111 under Emperor Henry V. As a result, he was banned from church . Because of this monastery establishment, Pope Paschalis issued a bull with which the ban was lifted.

Otto V. von Scheyern and his wife Heilika von Lengenfeld as the founders of the Ensdorf Monastery, today in the Church of St. Jakobus (Ensdorf)

In 1119 he received from his wife Heilika von Lengenfeld , a daughter of Friedrich III. von Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenohe , whose great inheritance is in the Nordgau . As a result, he and his family lived temporarily in Lengenfeld . Here he decided his life after ten years of age and was in the chapter house of Ensdorf monastery next to his father-in-law Friedrich III. von Pettendorf, his sister-in-law Heilwig von Lengenfeld and their husband, Gebhard I. von Leuchtenberg , were buried.

family

Before July 13, 1116 he married Heilika von Lengenfeld , a daughter of Count Friedrich von Lengenfeld-Hopfenlohe . The marriage had eight children:

  • Hermann, died as a child
  • Otto I , Duke of Bavaria
  • Konrad († 1200), cardinal
  • Friedrich II. († 1198/99) ⚭ 1184 daughter of Count Mangold von (Donau) wörth
  • Udalrich († May 29 after 1179)
  • Otto VII. († 1189) ⚭ Benedicta von Donauwörth, daughter of Count Mangold von (Donau) wörth
  • Hedwig († July 16, 1174) ⚭ (before 1153) Count Berthold III. von Andechs (* around 1123; † December 14, 1188)
  • Adelheid ⚭ Otto II von Stefling

literature

  • Pius Wittmann: The Count Palatine of Bavaria , Ackermann, 1877, p. 37 ff.
  • 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. A short message from Scheyern . 1826 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  2. ^ Ludwig Brandl (1968): Heimat Burglengenfeld. History of a city. Burglengenfeld: City of Burglengenfeld, p. 39f.
  3. Genealogical treatise by the ancestors of Otto the Great, born Count Palatine von Wittelsbach, who ascended the ducal throne in Bavaria in 1180 . na, 1776 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
predecessor Office successor
Engelbert I. Count Palatine of Bavaria
1099–1122
Otto VI.