Otto (Hessen) von Hessen (abt. 1272 - 1328)

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Otto I von Hessen, was the son of Heinrich I, Landgraf von Hessen, and his first wife Adelheid von Braunschweig, and was born about 1272.^[1]

He may originally have been intended for the Church, and was proposed as a Canon of Würzburg on 1 February 1293.^[1] However he succeeded as Landgraf, Herr von Oberhessen (Upper Hesse) during the life of his father in 1296, and after his death in 1308, and also succeeded his younger half-brother in Niederhessen (Lower Hesse) in 1311.^[1]

Otto I died on 17 January 1328 and was buried in St Elisabeth, Marburg.^[1]

He married in 1297, Adelheid von Ravensberg, daughter of Otto III, Graf von Ravensberg.

They had issue;^[2]

1. Heinrich II, succeeded his father as Landgraf von Hessen;
2. Otto, born 1301, succeeded as Archbishop of Magdenburg;
3. Ludwig II, succeeded as Herr von Grebenstein;
4. Hermann I;
5. Elisabeth, married Rudolf II von Sachsen-Wittenberg

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Knetsch, Carl. Das Haus Brabant: Genealogie der Herzoge von Brabant und der Landgrafen von Hessen. Vol. 1. - Vom 9. Jahrhundert bis zu Philipp dem Grossmütigen. Darmstadt: Historischer Verein für das Grossherzogtum Hessen, 1917. p. 46-47. Digital image, Philipps Universität Marburg, Universitätbibliothek http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/eb/2015/0060/view.html : viewed 24 July 2021.
2. ↑ Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europäische Stammtafeln, neue folge, Band I.2. - Premysliden, Askanier, Herzoge von Lothringen, die Häuser Hessen, Württemberg und Zähringen. Frankfurt Am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1999. Tafel 239.