Otto I, Count of Burgundy

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Otto I
Count of Burgundy
Othon Ier de Bourgogne.jpg
Spouse(s) Margaret, Countess of Blois
Issue
Noble family Hohenstaufen Dynasty
Father Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy
Born Between 1167 and 1171
Died 13 January 1200
Buried St Stephen's Cathedral (Citadel of Besançon)

Otto I (between 1167 and 1171 – 13 January 1200) was Count of Burgundy from 1190 to his death and briefly Count of Luxembourg from 1196 to 1197. He was the fourth son of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor by his second wife Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy,[1] daughter of Count Renaud III.[2]

Reign

Upon the death of his mother in 1184, his father granted him the Burgundian county, elevating him to the rank of a Count palatine (Freigraf). Haughty Otto however soon entered into several feuds: not only with the Anscarid lords of Auxonne and Mâcon, who claimed late Beatrice's heritage, but also with the Counts of Montbéliard, the French Odo III, Duke of Burgundy and Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen. In the course of negotiations in 1195, he killed Count Amadeus of Montbèliard with his own hands, followed by the assassination of Alsatian Count Ulric of Ferrette in 1197 and the execution of a brother of Konrad von Hüneburg, Bishop of Strasbourg, in 1198.

Otto's coat of arms (right), Georg Rüxner c. 1530, 17th century reprint

When Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg died without heirs in 1196, his county escheated to the Emperor and Henry VI enfeoffed his brother Otto. Theobald I, Count of Bar, who had married Ermesinde, daughter of late Count Henry IV, negotiated the renunciation of Luxembourg with Otto the next year.

Meanwhile, Count Palatine Otto's regional conflicts had become a severe threat to the power politics of his Hohenstaufen relatives. After Philip of Swabia had been elected King of the Romans in 1198, rivaling with the Welf duke Otto of Brunswick, he tried to settle the numerous quarrels picked by his brother. In 1200 Otto was assassinated at Besançon, his death came in useful to many political actors.

Otto was buried at St Stephen's Cathedral, today the site of the Citadel of Besançon.

Family

Otto had married Margaret, daughter of Theobald V, Count of Blois, in 1192.[3] After her husband's death her brother-in-law King Philip enfeoffed her with the Burgundian county, as regent for her minor daughter Joanna. Upon Joanna's death in 1205, Otto's second daughter, Beatrice, became countess and Philip married her to Otto I, Duke of Merania.

Ancestry

Family of Otto I, Count of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16. Frederick von Büren
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8. Frederick I, Duke of Swabia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17. Hildegard von Bar-Mousson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4. Frederick II, Duke of Swabia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9. Agnes of Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19. Bertha of Savoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20. Welf I, Duke of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10. Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21. Judith of Flanders
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5. Judith of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 22. Magnus, Duke of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11. Wulfhild of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23. Sophia of Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Otto I of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24. William I, Count of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12. Stephen I, Count of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25. Stephanie
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6. Renaud III, Count of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. Gerard, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13. Beatrix of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27. Hedwige of Namur
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3. Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 28. Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14. Simon I, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 29. Hedwige of Formbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7. Agatha of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30. Henry III of Leuven
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15. Adelaide of Leuven
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31. Gertrude of Flanders
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ Gislebertus (of Mons), Chronicle of Hainaut, transl. Laura Napran, (Boydell Press, 2005), 55 note245.
  2. ↑ Constance Brittain Bouchard, Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198, (Cornell University Press, 1987), 276.
  3. ↑ Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, transl. Thomas Dunlap, (University of California Press, 1991), 76.
Otto I, Count of Burgundy
Born: c.1167-1171 Died: 13 January 1200
Preceded by Count of Burgundy
1190-1200		 Succeeded by
Joan I
Preceded by Count of Luxemburg
1196-1197		 Succeeded by
Ermesinde and Theobald
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