Otto II the Black

Otto II the Black Moravian Olomouc, also called Otík, (Czech: Ota II Černý, řečený Otík ) (* 1099, † February 18, 1126 ) was Duke of Olomouc and Brno.

Otto was the younger son of Otto I the Fair of Olomouc and Euphemia of Hungary. After her father's death in 1087, Otto and his brother Svatopluk 1088 were driven out of Olomouc, victims of changing alliances and quarrels among the noble families of Bohemia time. From 1091 to 1110 he was Duke of Olomouc and 1107 short Regent Bohemia. 1108/ 09 he was a hostage of the Emperor Henry V. in 1109 he was proclaimed by parts of the Bohemian nobility to the Duke of Bohemia, however, this claim could not prevail against his cousin Vladislav I., with whom he was in dispute fortdauerndem. Vladislav imprisoned him from 1110 to 1113. 1113 to 1126 he was again duke of Olomouc and 1123-1125 also Duke of Brno.

According to Vladislav 's death in 1125 his brother was Soběslav I. Duke of Bohemia, but Otto got under the applicable Senioratsprinzip as the oldest member of the dynasty Přemyslids claim to the succession in Bohemia and was supported by the widow of Vladislav, his sister Richza ( Rixa, Richinza ) support of mountain Bohemia, and of Emperor Lothair of Supplinburg. Lothar marched with an army into Bohemia, and on February 18, 1126, there was at Chlumec u Chabařovic ( German: Kulm ) on the southern edge of the eastern Ore Mountains to the second battle of Chulmec. Soběslav won a convincing victory. Otto was in the battle to death, and Lothar III. was captured. Soběslav could be borrow from the captive king of Bohemia, before he released him.

With his wife Sophie von Berg, the daughter of Count Heinrich von Berg, Otto had three children: Euphemia, Otto III, and Detleb, who was from 1172 to 1182 Bishop of Olomouc. .