Portrait from Die Chronik Bayerns
:''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.
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).
Life
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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