Otto I, Count of Scheyern explained

Otto I, Count of Scheyern
Noble Family:House of Wittelsbach
Father:Heinrich I, Count of Pegnitz
Mother:unnamed daughter of Kuno I, Count of Altdorf
Spouse:A daughter of Meginhardt of Reichersbeuern
Haziga of Diessen
Issue:Eckhard I
Bernard I
Otto II
Arnold I
Death Date:before 4 December 1072
Death Place:probably: Scheyern

Otto I, Count of Scheyern (some authors call him Otto II of Scheyern;  - before 4 December 1072) was the earliest known ancestor of the House of Wittelsbach whose relation with the House can be properly verified.

Life

Most historians believe Otto was a younger son of Heinrich I, Count of Pegnitz and an unnamed daughter of Kuno I, Count of Altdorf.[1] He was appointed Vogt of Freising in Bavaria.[2] A document from 1073 calls him Latin: Comes de Skyrun, i.e. Count of Scheyern. Otto I died on December 4, 1072, while on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.[2]

Marriage and children

Otto was married twice.[2] His first wife was from Saxony but her given name has not been preserved.[2] About 1057, he married Haziga of Diessen, daughter of Count Friedrich of Diessen.[2]

Otto had 4 known children. By his first wife he had:

By his second wife, Haziga, he had 2 children:

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Notes and References

  1. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band I (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980), Tafeln 9, 23
  2. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band I (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980), Tafel 23