Otto I, Count of Scheyern

Count of Scheyern

Otto I, Count of Scheyern
Born	c. 1020
Died	before 4 December 1072 probably: Scheyern
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Spouse(s)	A daughter of Meginhardt of Reichersbeuern Haziga of Diessen
Issue	Eckhard I Bernard I Otto II Arnold I
Father	Heinrich I, Count of Pegnitz
Mother	unnamed daughter of Kuno I, Count of Altdorf

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 (died 1 April, c. 1110).^[2]
Arnold I, Count of Scheyern and Count of Dachau (died c. 1123).^[2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Otto I, Count of Scheyern

8. Berthold of Schweinfurt

4. Henry of Schweinfurt

18. Lothar II of Walbeck

9. Eilika of Walbeck

19. Mathilde of Arneburg

2. Henry I of Schweinfurt

20. Odo of Wetterau

10. Herbert of Wetterau

21. Cunigunda of Vermandois

5. Gerberga of Gleiberg

22. Megingoz of Guelders

11. Irmtrud of Avalgau

23. Gerberga of Lorraine

1. Otto I of Scheyern

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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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 (in German), vol. 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 694–694; (full text online)

External links

Family tree of the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach-Dachau-Valley, from a lecture by Prof. Schmid: Bayern im Spätmittelalter, winter 1996/97
Otto I at genealogie-mittelalter