Individual Details
Otto I, Count of Scheyern
(Abt 1020 - Bef 4 Dec 1072)
According to Wikipedia:
Otto I, Count of Scheyern (some authors call him Otto II of Scheyern;[citation needed] c.?1020 - 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 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:
Eckhard I.[2]
Bernard I, Count of Scheyern (d. 2 March abt. 1102).[2]
By his second wife, Haziga, he had 2 children:
Otto II (d. 1 Apr., abt. 1110).[2]
Arnold I, Count of Scheyern and Count of Dachau (d. c. 1123).[2]
References
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
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band I (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980), Tafel 23
Ludwig Holzfurtner (1999), "Otto von Scheyern", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 694-694; (full text online)
Otto I, Count of Scheyern (some authors call him Otto II of Scheyern;[citation needed] c.?1020 - 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 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:
Eckhard I.[2]
Bernard I, Count of Scheyern (d. 2 March abt. 1102).[2]
By his second wife, Haziga, he had 2 children:
Otto II (d. 1 Apr., abt. 1110).[2]
Arnold I, Count of Scheyern and Count of Dachau (d. c. 1123).[2]
References
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
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band I (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980), Tafel 23
Ludwig Holzfurtner (1999), "Otto von Scheyern", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 694-694; (full text online)
Events
| Birth | Abt 1020 | ||||
| Death | Bef 4 Dec 1072 |
Families
| Child | Eckhard I, Count of Scheyern ( - 1091) |
| Father | Henry I of Schweinfurt ( - 1043) |