Otto III, Count of Burgundy

Otto II (* 1226 attested, † June 19, 1248 at the castle Niesten ) from the house of Andechs was Duke of Meranien and Count Palatine of Burgundy (as Otto III. ). He was the only son of Duke Otto I; his mother was Beatrix of Staufen.

With the death of his father in 1234 he inherited the duchy Meranien as well as the County Palatine of Burgundy. In the same year he married Elisabeth of Tirol, † October 10, 1256, the daughter of Count Adalbert III. of Tyrol; The marriage remained childless.

When he became of age ( he was at the beginning of his reign under the guardianship of his uncle, the Bishop Eckhart of Bamberg, † 1237 ), he left the management of the County Palatine in 1235 to Count Theobald IV of Champagne to be quite the battle for the ( to devote former ) Bavarian possession against the Wittelsbach. In 1242 he pledged for even the County Palatine of the neighboring Duke of Burgundy, Hugh IV

Otto II was interred in the Cistercian Klosterlangheim. Klosterlangheim is now a district of Lichtenfels. Otto II granted Lichtenfels 1231 the municipal law. His widow Elizabeth remarried in 1249 Gebhard IV, since 1240 Graf von Hirschberg ( † February 27, 1275 ).

The title of the Duke of Meranien became extinct with the death of Otto, especially since no property was available. The county palatine of Burgundy went to his sister Adelheid and her one after the other to their husbands Hugo of Salins († 1266 ) and Philip of Savoy, then at Otto IV, the son of Adelaide's first marriage.