Ozi

Ozi ( Ozie, Oci ; also Otger, Otgar, Otakar ) (* before 977; † before 1028), probably from the Otakare family , was a count , messenger of violence and missus in the Carinthian Kroatengau and in Friuli ( Margraviate Verona ).

Life

Ozi was probably a son of Count Otakar III. in Chiemgau († 976). In 993 at the latest he became the successor of the Bavarian Count Palatine Hartwig I as a messenger of violence in the Kroatengau . The family's greatest property was in Carinthia on Lake Ossiach , near Villach and Treffen . Around 1024 he founded the Ossiach Abbey .

family

Count Ozi was married to Glismod von Utrecht, a sister of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. (According to H. Dopsch, however, Ozi's wife was probably Irenburg, who is attested as a co-founder of Ossiach.) Children:

Ozinus, Count in Zeidlergau, Lord of Cordenons
Poppo († 1042), Patriarch of Aquileia (1019-1042)

literature

Heinz Dopsch : The Styrian Otakars About their origins and their dynastic connections . In: Gerhard Pferschy (Ed.): Becoming of Styria. The time of the Traungau . Festschrift for the 800th return of the elevation to the duchy. Publishing house Styria, Graz u. a. . 1980, ISBN 3-222-11281-9 , ( publications of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchives 10), pp. 75-139.

personal data
SURNAME	Ozi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ozie; Oci; Otger; Otgar; Otakar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count, messenger of violence and royal messenger
DATE OF BIRTH	before 977
DATE OF DEATH	between 1024 and 1028