Otto I, Count Palatine of Mosbach
Otto I of Pfalz- Mosbach ( * August 24 1390 in Mosbach, † July 5, 1461 in Reichenbach ) was the youngest son of Prince Elector Ruprecht III. and Elisabeth von Hohenzollern -Nuremberg.
With his father's death in 1410 it came to the division of the Palatinate. Otto received the part around Mosbach and Eberbach. By the choice of Mosbach as a residence he founded at the same time the house of Pfalz- Mosbach. In 1448 became extinct with the death of Otto's nephew Christopher the line Palatinate - Neumarkt and their territory fell to Otto, who ruled now by Neumarkt. After his brother Louis III. Was seriously ill in 1427 returned to the Holy Land from a pilgrimage, this familiar daily business of government and the education of his son and successor Louis IV Otto until his death in 1436. Otto made a pilgrimage in 1460 to the Holy Land itself, as is shown in the report of the pilgrims Hans Bernhardt Eptingen. In 1430, Otto married Johanna of Bavaria- Landshut ( 1413-1444 ), a daughter of Duke Henry the Rich of Bavaria -Landshut. His tomb is located in the Benedictine monastery Reichenbach in the Upper Palatinate.
Descendants from his marriage to Johanna
- Margarethe von Pfalz- Mosbach (1432-1457), married to Count Reinhard III. of Hanau
- Amalie of the Palatinate- Mosbach (1433-1483), married to Count Philip the Elder of Rieneck - Grünfeld, Lauda and Wildenstein
- Otto II von Pfalz - Mosbach (1435-1499), known mathematician, Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate - Mosbach- Neumarkt
- Ruprecht I of the Palatinate- Mosbach (1437-1465), Administrator of Regensburg
- Dorothea von Pfalz- Mosbach (1439-1482), prioress of the monastery Liebenau
- Albrecht von Pfalz- Mosbach (1440-1506), Bishop of Strasbourg
- Anna of Pfalz- Mosbach ( * 1441 ), prioress of the monastery Himmelskron
- Johann von Pfalz- Mosbach (1443-1486), provost of Mainz, Speyer and Augsburg
- Barbara von Pfalz- Mosbach (1444-1486), a nun in the convent Liebenau at Worms