Otto of Wittelsbach
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- Otto IV, Count of WittelsbachOtto IV, Count of WittelsbachOtto IV, Count of Wittelsbach was a descendant of Count Otto II of Scheyern and Richgard of Weimar-Istrien. Otto entitled himself after Wittelsbach Castle near Aichach from 1116 onwards, served Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and was Count palatine of Bavaria since 1120.Otto was married with Heilika...
(c. 1083 – 1156), father of Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria - Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (1117–1183)
- Otto VIII. by Wittelsbach, killed in 1209, son of Count Otto VII of Wittelsbach and murderer of king Philip of SwabiaPhilip of SwabiaPhilip of Swabia was king of Germany and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV.-Biography:Philip was the fifth and youngest son of Emperor Frederick I and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, daughter of Renaud III, count of Burgundy, and brother of the emperor Henry VI...
- Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of BavariaOtto II Wittelsbach, Duke of BavariaOtto II of Bavaria was the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine . He was a son of Louis I and Ludmilla of Bohemia and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.- Biography :...
(1206–1253), Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine - Otto III, Duke of BavariaOtto III, Duke of BavariaOtto III of Bavaria , member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 to 1312 and disputably King of Hungary and Croatia between 1305 and 1307 as Béla V.-Family:...
(1261–1312) - Otto IV, Duke of Lower BavariaOtto IV, Duke of Lower BavariaOtto IV was a Duke of Lower Bavaria.-Family:He was a son of Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria and Jutta of Schweidnitz....
(1307–1334) - Otto V, Duke of BavariaOtto V, Duke of BavariaOtto V, Duke of Bavaria , was a duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg as Otto VII. Otto was the fourth son of Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV by his second wife Margaret II of Avesnes, countess of Hainaut and Holland.-Biography:...
(1346–1379), also Margrave of Brandenburg as Otto VII - King Otto of GreeceOtto of GreeceOtto, Prince of Bavaria, then Othon, King of Greece was made the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London, whereby Greece became a new independent kingdom under the protection of the Great Powers .The second son of the philhellene King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Otto ascended...
(1815–1867), of the House of Wittelsbach
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- Otto von Wittelsbach (play) is also a play by German playwright Joseph Marius BaboJoseph Marius BaboJoseph Marius Babo . As a dramatist, Babo preferred action based on history. In Otto von Wittelsbach, written in 1781, he followed the path blazed by Goethe in Götz von Berlichingen. Sometimes one could see he was acquainted with Shakespeare...
(1756–1822)