♂ Otto IV Wittelsbach

1083 - 1156

 

Count of Whittelsbach

Otto IV Wittelsbach
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Parents
Eckard I Wittelsbach
Eckard I Wittelsbach
???? - 1091
Spouse
Heilika of Pettendorf
Heilika of Pettendorf
1103 - 1170
Children
Otto I Wittelsbach
Otto I Wittelsbach
1117 - 1183

From 1116 onwards, he served Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and he was Count palatine of Bavaria from 1120.

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1083

1083 • Fall of Ceuta to the Almoravids after five years of siege.Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

1124


Age: 41y

residence


Aichach, Bundesland, Bavaria ⇓
In 1124, he moved his residence from Scheyern Castle to Wittelsbach Castle in Aichach. He donated Scheyern Castle to the Benedictine Order, who turned it into a monastery.
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1124 • Gaufrid is consecrated as the first Abbot of Dunfermline Abbey.

1156


Aug 4
Age: 73y
1156 Mosan artists create the Stavelot Triptych, a masterpiece of goldsmithing, as a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True Cross.

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