Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen
Ottilie von Katzenelenbogen (* presumably in 1451 on the strong castle near Darmstadt, † August 15 1517 in Baden- Baden) was by marriage to Christoph I of Baden Margrave of Baden. Through their two sons Bernhard Ernst and she is the ancestress of the lines of Baden- Baden and Baden- Durlach.
Life
Ottilie was the only child of Count Philip of Katzenelenbogen the Younger and his wife Ottilie von Nassau- Dillenburg (* 1437, † 1493 ) on the strong castle in Darmstadt to the world. On March 22, 1453 she was baptized. Father's side she was a granddaughter of Count Philip of Katzenelenbogen the Elder and Anna of Württemberg.
Ottilie was still a child when her grandfather Philip of Katzenelenbogen the Elder shortly after the death of the last male Katzenelnbogen heirs Eberhard in 1456 a marriage agreement with Frederick I, Elector of the Palatinate, met by she became engaged with his nephew Philip. As Ottilie had reached a marriageable age eleven years after the appointment in 1467, the groom but refused to marry her due to personal reasons. Instead, she was engaged at the instigation of the Archbishop of Trier Johann II of Baden with his nephew, the Margrave Christoph I of Baden. The marriage contract was signed on June 20, 1468. The marriage took place the following year on January 30 in Koblenz as part of a double wedding instead, because Christopher's sister Cimburga married on the same day the Count Engelbert II of Nassau- Dillenburg.
Your dowry was the highest that has ever been introduced in the Middle Ages to the Margrave of Baden house. Next to the castle Stadeck with all accessories was her dowry of 26,000 florins and 48,000 other, longer-dated guilders. It thus amounted to a total of about 80,000 guilders.
The marriage between Ottilie and her husband is called happy. Between 1470 and 1493 she brought a total of 15 children into the world, 13 of which survived to adulthood:
- Ottilie (* 1470, † 1490 ), abbess in Pforzheim
- Jacob (* 1471, † 1511), Archbishop of Trier
- Marie ( * 1473, † 1519), abbess of the monastery light valley
- Bernhard ( * 1474, † 1536), Margrave of Baden
- Karl ( * 1476, † 1510), a canon in Strasbourg and Trier
- Christoph (* 1477, † 1508), a canon in Strasbourg and Cologne
- Philip (* 1478, † 1533), Margrave of Baden
- Rudolf ( * 1481, † 1532), canon of Mainz, Cologne, Strasbourg and Augsburg
- Ernst ( * 1482, † 1553), Margrave of Baden
- Wolfgang (* 1484, † 1522)
- Sibylle (* 1485, † 1518), Count Philip III ∞ 1505. of Hanau- Lichtenberg ( * 1482, † 1538)
- Rosine (* 1487, † 1554 ) ∞ I) 1503 Count Franz Wolfgang von Hohenzollern (* 1483/84, † 1517), ∞ II) Johann von Ow to guard the village († 1571)
- Johann († 1490 )
- Beatrix (* 1492, † 1535), Count Palatine ∞ 1508 John II of simmering (* 1492, † 1557)
- George ( * 1493, † 1493 )
After Ottilie's grandfather had died in 1479, there were clashes with the man of her aunt, the Landgrave Henry III. of Hesse to their share of the inheritance to the Katzenelnbogen possessions that were negotiated in accordance with the provisions of Ottilie Eheabredung before an arbitral tribunal. After lengthy negotiations, there was a comparison of the two parties to the dispute, in which the Marchioness time being waived for a sum of 4000 florins on their claims. As Landgraf Wilhelm III. of Hesse died in 1500, was Ottilie another 12,000 guilders in compensation, so that the Badenerhaus in March 1501 finally gave up the county Katzenelenbogen.
Countess Ottilie died on August 15, 1517 in Baden -Baden and was buried in the local church. Your Epitaph bronze shows an image of her with the coat of arms of Württemberg and Katzenelsohn sheet at their feet.