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Otto II, Duke of Bavaria

Duke of Bavaria (1206–1253)

Summary

Duke of Bavaria (1206–1253)

Field	Value
name	Otto II
image	Otto II Wittelsbach.jpg
succession	Duke of Bavaria
Count Palatine of the Rhine
house	Wittelsbach
father	Louis I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
mother	Ludmilla of Bohemia
spouse	Agnes of the Palatinate
issue	Louis II, Duke of Bavaria
Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
reign	1231 – 1253
predecessor	Louis I
successor	Louis II (Upper Bavaria & Rhine)
Henry XIII (Lower Bavaria)
birth_date
birth_place	Kelheim
death_date
death_place	Landshut
burial_place	Crypt of Scheyern Abbey

the second duke of the Wittelsbach line (1206-1253)

Count Palatine of the Rhine Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany Henry XIII (Lower Bavaria)

Otto II (7 April 1206 – 29 November 1253), called the Illustrious (), was the Duke of Bavaria from 1231 and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1228. He was the son of Louis I and Ludmilla of Bohemia and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

The poet Reinbot von Dürne was active at his court.

Life

Otto was born at Kelheim.

Otto II, Duke of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, with his wife [[Agnes of the Palatinate]]; oil painting after an original of the 15th century.

At the age of sixteen, he was married to Agnes of the Palatinate, a granddaughter of Duke Henry the Lion and Conrad of Hohenstaufen. With this marriage, the Wittelsbach inherited the Palatinate and kept it as a Wittelsbach possession until 1918. Since that time also the lion has become a heraldic symbol in the coat of arms for Bavaria and the Palatinate.

Otto acquired the rich regions of Bogen in 1240, and Andechs and Ortenburg in 1248 as possessions for the Wittelsbach and extended his power base in Bavaria this way. With the county of Bogen the Wittelsbach acquired also the white and blue coloured lozenge flag which since that time has been the flag of Bavaria (and of the Palatinate).

After a dispute with emperor Frederick II was ended, he joined the Hohenstaufen party in 1241. His daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Frederick's son Conrad IV. Because of this, Otto was excommunicated by the pope.

He died in Landshut in 1253. Like his forefathers, Otto was buried in the crypt of Scheyern Abbey.

Family and children

Otto married Agnes, the daughter of Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (a son of Henry the Lion) and Agnes of Hohenstaufen, in Worms in 1222. Their children were:

Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (13 April 1229, Heidelberg – 2 February 1294, Heidelberg).
Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (19 November 1235, Landshut – 3 February 1290, Burghausen.
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (c. 1227, Landshut – 9 October 1273)
Sophie (1236, Landshut – 9 August 1289, Castle Hirschberg), married 1258 to Count Gerhard IV of Sulzbach and Hirschberg.
Agnes (c. 1240–c. 1306), Nun in Segenstal Abbey

Otto had a daughter who died young and whose name is not known. The Annales sancti Rudberti Salisburgenses record her betrothal in 1235 to Conrad, who later married Elisabeth.

References

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References

Mueller, Steven. (2007). "The Wittelsbach Dynasty". Waldmann Press.
Pavlac, Brian A.. (2019). "The Holy Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]". Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
Alan V. Murray (1986), "Reinbot von Durne's Der heilige Georg as Crusading Literature", ''Forum for Modern Language Studies'' '''22''' (2): 172–173 and n8.

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