Otto V Av Paar Und SCHEYERN

Abt 1117 -

• Name	Otto V Av Paar Und SCHEYERN
  Birth	Abt 1117	Scheyern, Bayern   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	hertug av bayern
  Residence	München
  Death	Wittelsbach, Bayern
  Notes	Han fikk først en sønn, Otto, som døde som 11 åring, deretter kom 4 døtre som ikke kunne arve grevskapet, deretter skal han ha hatt 3 andre døtre utenfor ekteskap? før endelig det kom en sønn som kunne arve grevskapet, Ludvig. Han ble hertug ove r Bayern under Fredrich I Barbarossa 16. september 1180. (Britannicus caller ham Otto VI) Wittelsbach, HOUSE OF, German noble family that provided rulers of Bavaria and of the Rhenish Palatinate until the 20th century. The name was taken from the castle of Wittelsbach, which formerly stood near Aichach on the Paar in Bavaria. In 1124 , Otto V, count of Scheyern (d. 1155), removed the residence of his family to Wittelsbach and called himself by this name. His son, Otto VI, after serving the German king Frederick I, was invested duke of Bavaria, as Otto I. From that date, 1180 , until 1918, Bavaria was ruled by the Wittelsbachs. The first step toward extending their authority outside Bavaria was made in 1214, when Otto II, through marriage, obtained the Palatinate of the Rhine. A descendant, Louis, became duke of Bavaria in 1294 and Holy Roman emperor, as Louis IV, in 132 8. In 1329, by the Treaty of Pavia, Louis IV made the first important division of the Wittelsbach lands by granting the Palatinate of the Rhine and the upper Palatinate of Bavaria to his brother's sons, Rudolf II (d. 1353) and Rupert I. Rupert, wh o from 1353 to 1390 was sole ruler, was granted the title of elector of the Palatinate of the Rhine in 1356. (see also Index: Pavia, Compact of) Meanwhile, the descendants of the emperor Louis IV retained the rest of Bavaria but made several divisions of their territory, the most important of which was in 1392, when the branches of Ingolstadt, Munich, and Landshut were founded. Three gener ations later, however, after much contention, ducal Bavaria was reunited by Albert IV (d. 1508), who introduced the rule of primogeniture. The Wittelsbachs of the Palatinate provided a German king, Rupert, who reigned from 1400 to 1410, but their lands continued to be subdivided among themselves, creating a profusion of branches of the family. A Wittelsbach of one of the Palatinat e branches became king of Sweden as Charles X in 1654; Charles XI and Charles XII continued this Wittelsbach kingdom until 1718. The Bavarian dukes had also become electors, beginning in 1623. The Bavarian elector Charles Albert (d. 1745) was Holy Roman emperor, as Charles VII, from 1742. With his son Maximilian III Joseph the Bavarian line of Wittelsbachs died out in 1777 . The elector Palatine, Charles Theodore, also a Wittelsbach, then succeeded to Bavaria, by virtue of a dynastic treaty of 1724. On his death (1799) the Palatinate and Bavaria were reunited under Duke Maximilian IV Joseph of Zweibrücken, who in 18 06 became king of Bavaria as Maximilian I. Maximilian I's descendants were kings of Bavaria until Louis III abdicated in 1918. Louis III's son, Prince Rupert (d. 1955), a potential pretender to the British crown through his female descent from the Stuarts, led Bavarian monarchist opinio n against Hitler. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (a grandson of King Maximilian I), his son Louis Ferdinand, and his grandson Ferdinand all married Spanish infantas (1856, 1883, and 1906). Their branch had a contingent interest in the succession to the Spanish crown. Copyright 1994-1999 Encyclopædia Britannica
  Person ID	I43738	Valdres Slekt
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2007

  
  

  Father	Otto IV Von Scheyern Und WITTELSBACH,   b. Scheyern, Bayern d. 1156, Scheyern, Bayern
  Family ID	F16104	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Ludwig I Av Wittelsbach VON BAYERN,   b. 23 Dec 1174, Kelheim, Bayern d. 15 Sep 1231, Wittelsbach, Bayern (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F16105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2007

  
  

• Sources

  [S97] Wittelsbacherne av Hans E Nøhlbauer, 28 (Reliability: 3).