Otto II, Count of Waldeck
Otto II ( * before 1307, † 1369 ) was from 1344 to 1369 Graf von Waldeck.
Family
Otto was the son of Count Henry IV of Waldeck and Adelaide of Cleves. He married 1339/40 Matilda ( Matilda ), daughter of Duke Otto III. of Brunswick- Lüneburg. From the marriage of the son and heir of Henry VI went. and daughters Sophie, Nun in Volkhardinghausen, and Anna († 1383 ), married to Simon III. to lip out. His wife died before him, at the latest 1357th Soon after, Otto married his second wife, Margaret, widow of the murdered nobleman in 1356 Heinemann Itter. Children from this marriage are not known.
Regency
Otto II was co-regent with his father since 1332. After its withdrawal from the government in 1344 Otto was alone reigning Count. In 1345 he joined an " everlasting covenant" with Archbishop Henry of Mainz. As the time of his predecessor, there were discrepancies with the archbishops of Cologne in their capacity as Dukes of Westphalia. This dispute was settled in 1346 by comparison.
Otto was invested in 1349 by Emperor Charles IV and the county of Waldeck. He was raised to the imperial princes. After the death of his Svhwiegervaters in 1354 he laid claim to the Duchy of Brunswick -Lüneburg, but Wilhelm was able to secure the succession of his brother. Emperor Charles IV undertook Although Wilhelm to Otto to pay a high compensation, but this was not done.
After Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz and Landgrave of Hesse, Heinrich had in 1357 brought most of the Itter in itself, the Archbishop of Mainz, mortgaged his share same lötigen for 1000 marks of silver Fritzlarer weight to Count Otto. 1381 Otto gave this pledge to stem further Thile I. Wolff of Gudenberg, two years later, the Hessian part received in pledge possession and whose descendants the Itter to 1542/1562 retained possession.
On July 8, 1358 appointed Otto, still under the influence of severe plague epidemic of 1349, members of the Knights of Wiesenfeld with the establishment of a hospital in Niederwildungen. To this end, he donated his old Mühlenhof at the Wild between the two cities Niederwildungen and Altwildungen. The small hospital was built in the years 1358-1369. In 1372 it became the St. John's Coming Wildungen.
In the year 1368, the Landgrave and the Archbishop allied against Otto and his son Henry to snatch these, the Friedrich flintlock in Wildungen. From an arbitral tribunal Waldecker were sentenced to pay damages for breach of the contract concluded with Mainz Erbbündnisses.
About Otto's final resting place is unknown.