Otto II of Nassau

Otto II of Nassau
Born c.1305
Died 6 January 1351(1351-01-06) (aged 45–46)
Noble family House of Nassau
Spouse(s) Adelheid of Vianden
Father Heinrich of Nassau
Mother Adelheid of Heinsberg

Otto II of Nassau (c.1305 1351) was a German nobleman. He was a Count of Nassau-Dillenburg in Siegen and Dillenburg, and was a son of Count Heinrich of Nassau and Adelheid of Heinsberg.[1]

Otto married Adelheid of Vianden, daughter of Philip of Vianden and Adelheid of Arnsberg. They had four children:[2]

  • Adelheid of Nassau, who became a nun at Keppel, and later became an Abbess.
  • Johan I of Nassau who married Margareta von der Marck.
  • Heinrich "the Swashbuckler" (died 5 September 1402 in Kassel) became a Canon at the Cologne Cathedral.
  • Otto of Nassau, first a canon and provost of St. Moritz at Mainz, and later canon at Cologne and Mainz cathedrals.

References

  1. De Nederlandsche leeuw: Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde, Volume 8, 1890, pg 90-91
  2. Cawley, Charles, House of Nassau, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy , at Medieval Lands
  • Eduard Ausfeld (1887), "Otto II., Graf von Nassau", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 24, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 707–708
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