Otto II, Count of Zutphen

Otto II of Zutphen, called the Rich (* 1050, † 1113 ) was from 1063 Mr. and later Count of Zutphen and Vogt of Corvey. He was the son of Gottschalk, Count of Twente and Zutphen, and Adelheid, daughter of Ludolf von Brau hamlet.

With the death of his father, his older brother received his father's heritage, while it fell to Zutphen from the maternal inheritance. The donations, which he made many religious institutions, as well as the reconstruction of the burned church of St. Walburga at Zutphen earned him the nickname of the Empire. In a forged document of 1103 he is first referred to as Count of Zutphen.

Progeny

From a first marriage to an unknown woman he had a daughter, Adelheid, who was married to Egbert of Saarbrücken. He completed his second marriage to Judith († 1118), daughter of Louis I, Count of Arnstein; Children from this marriage were:

  • Henry I († 1122), Count of Zutphen
  • Rupert; married Ermentrudis
  • Ermengarde of Zutphen († 1138 ), Countess of Zutphen, she married (I) Gerhard II, Count of funds and Wassenberg, † around 1131
  • (II ) Conrad II, Count of Luxembourg, † 1136
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