Otto III, Duke of Bavaria
Otto III. of Bavaria ( * February 11, 1261; † September 9, 1312 in Landshut ) came from the house of Wittelsbach. He was from 1290 to 1312 Duke of Lower Bavaria and as Béla V. 1305-1307 King of Hungary.
Life
Otto's father was Duke Henry XIII. , His grandfather Duke Otto II of Bavaria. About his mother Elizabeth of Hungary (1236-1271) he was entitled to the Hungarian throne.
Under an agreement brought about by his father Otto was the sole ruler of Lower Bavaria in 1290, and as his brothers Ludwig III. and Stephen I. mitregierten since 1294, this his command located below.
Otto was particularly interested in the acquisition of Styria. For this reason he pursued an anti - Habsburg policy and stood on the side of Adolf of Nassau against the Habsburgs Albrecht of Austria. 1292 Otto supported the anti-Habsburg uprising of the Federal Landsberger in Styria, although remaining unsuccessful. In 1298 he fought in the lost battle of Göllheim vain for Adolf, who came to death here, where he was wounded.
The new king Albrecht deprived him of, among other things, the former Hohenstaufen Goods Park stone and willow, which he transferred King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia. After him already 1301, the Holy Crown was offered after the extinction of the Árpád dynasty, he refused at first because of the problematic political situation in Hungary.
Otto Wenzel supported against Albrecht, and when he was offered again upon him the crown, he went in July 1305 at the court in Prague, where he was the new king Wenceslas III. his claim to the Hungarian territory ceded. Since he Albrecht blocked the way through Austria, he disguised himself as a merchant and came in oven on November 11th, 1305 at. Finally, he was crowned in Székesfehérvár as Béla V. on December 6, 1305 the Hungarian king.
Ultimately, however, failed both its Hungary - Austria as well as its policy. He was captured by the followers of Charles -Robert of Anjou and delivered to them. In October 1307 he realized Karl Roberts to rule that left him then. On the run from Hungary he stayed at his cousin Henry III. of Glogau, where he became engaged to his daughter Agnes. In February 1308 he returned to Landshut, where he married Agnes on May 18, 1309
The lengthy conflict with the Habsburgs, which led to the devastation of Burghausen still in 1310, found only on February 2, 1311 by the Peace of Salzburg an end. His own ventures and left behind debts of his now deceased brothers were preparing Otto big financial problems. Already in 1295 he raised taxes and after his return from Hungary, a new emergency control. With the Ottonian Tangible 1311 he left in exchange for a one-time cattle control the low jurisdiction against their acquisition by purchase of the nobility and clergy. Until then, this jurisdiction was granted only to the sovereign. Thus, the actual development of the Bavarian stalls began in Otto's reign.
He was buried in Seligenthal monastery near Landshut.
Progeny
- 2nd marriage May 18, 1309 with Agnes of Glogau (* 1293/96, † 1361 ), daughter of Duke Henry III. of Glogau Agnes (* 1310, † 1360 ) ∞ Count Henry IV of Ortenbourg
- Heinrich XV. (* 1312, † 1333)