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- Not to be confused with Duke Otto I 976-982, Duke of Bavaria (as Otto I). Though Otto of Wittelsbach was the third duke of Bavaria named Otto he is mostly called Otto I as founder of a new dynasty. Not to be confused also with King Otto 1886-1913.
Duke Otto I of Bavaria (1117, Kelheim – 11 July 1183, Pfullendorf, (German: Otto I Wittelsbach, Herzog von Bayern), since 1180 the first Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria.
Biography
Duke Otto I was a son of Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach and a brother of Conrad I, Archbishop of Mainz (1161-1165 and 1183-1200) who was as Conrad III also Archbishop of Salzburg (1177-1183).
As one of the best knights in the suite of Frederick I who had prevented a defeat of the Emperor near Verona in 1155, Otto was finally rewarded with the duchy of Bavaria in 1180 after the fall of Henry the Lion. But with the separation of Styria in the same year Bavaria lost the last of her southeastern territories. Otto died during a trip in Pfullendorf, Swabia and was buried in the crypt of Scheyern Abbey. Otto's family ruled Bavaria until the revolution in 1918 for 738 years.
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Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
Born: 1117 Died: 1183 |
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| Preceded by Henry XII |
Duke of Bavaria 1180–1183 |
Succeeded by Louis I |
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