Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Otto V
Otto V
	Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
	Otto V the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1439–71)
Born	1439
Died	9 January 1471
Noble family	House of Guelph
Spouse(s)	Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg
Father	Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Mother	Magdalena of Brandenburg

Otto V, called the Victorious or the Magnanimous (1439 – 9 January 1471, German: Otto der Siegreiche, der Großmütige), was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Lüneburg from 1457 to his death. He shared the principality with his brother, Bernard, until Bernard's death in 1464.

Otto and Bernard were the sons of Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and succeeded him as ruling princes when Frederick retired. After Otto's death, his father returned to rule.

Life

Otto was the son of Frederick II of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Magdalena of Brandenburg. After his brother died without issue, Otto took over the Principality of Lüneburg in 1464. Otto's reign was marked by the monastic reform movements of his time which he tried to implement in the Lüneburg monasteries. He entered Wienhausen Abbey, removed a number of art treasures which, in Otto's opinion were contrary to the ideal of monastic simplicity, and sent the abbess to be "re-educated in a monastery that was already reformed."[1] According to a legend, Otto was killed at a tournament on the Celle jousting field. Today, a horseshoe in plaster marks the spot where Duke Otto the Magnanimous is supposed to have had the accident in 1471.

Family

Otto married Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg in 1467. They had the following children:

William (died 1480)
Henry (c. 1467–1532)

Ancestors

Ancestors of Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

16. Magnus the Pious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

8. Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

17. Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal

4. Bernard I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

18. Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

9. Catherine of Anhalt-Bernburg

19. Agnes of Saxony

2. Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

20. Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

10. Wenceslas I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

21. Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin

5. Margaret of Saxony

22. Francesco I da Carrara

11. Cecilia of Carrara

23. Fina di Buzzacarini

1. Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

24. John II of Nuremberg

12. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg

25. Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen

6. Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg

26. Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen

13. Elisabeth of Meissen

27. Matilda of Bavaria

3. Magdalene of Brandenburg

28. Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria

14. Frederick, Duke of Bavaria

29. Elisabeth of Sicily

7. Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut

30. Bernabò Visconti

15. Maddalena Visconti

31. Beatrice Regina della Scala

References

Geckler, Christa (1986). Die Celler Herzöge – Leben und Wirken 1371–1705, p. 73

Sources

Geckler, Christa (1986). Die Celler Herzöge: Leben und Wirken 1371–1705. Celle: Georg Ströher. ISBN 3-921744-05-8. OCLC 255990175.

External links

Die Welfen

German nobility
Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg House of Welf Cadet branch of the House of Este Born: 1439 Died: 9 January 1471
Preceded by Bernard II	Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Prince of Lüneburg 1464–1471	Succeeded by Frederick II the Pious

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[1] Geckler, Christa (1986). Die Celler Herzöge – Leben und Wirken 1371–1705, p. 73