Otto
(Otto IV)
von Braunschweig
formerly Welf
Born in Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany
Ancestors 
Brother of
Mathilde (Saxony) Sachsen, Gertrud (Welf) von Sachsen [half], Lothar (Saxony) Sachsen, Richenza (Sachsen) du Perche, Heinrich (Welf) von Braunschweig, Wilhelm (Welf) von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Eleanore UNKNOWN
Husband of
Beatrix (Staufer) von Staufen
— married
22 Jul 1212 in Nordhausen, Gaugrafschaft Helmegau, Heiliges Römisches Reich
Husband of
Marie (Brabant) of Holland
— married
19 May 1214 (to 19 May 1218) in Maastricht
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 43
in Bad Hazburg, Germany
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Biography
Burial
- Burial:
- Place: Brunswick Cathedral
Occupation
- Occupation: Duke of Swabia; Holy Roman Emperor
Note
- No children with either of his two wives.
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- ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 30
OTTO OF BRUNSWICK, 3rd son. He married (1st) 22 July 1212 BEATRIX OF HOHENSTAUFEN, daughter of Philip, Duke of Swabia. They had no issue. His wife, Beatrix, died 11 August 1212. He married (2nd) at Aachen 29 May 1214 MARIA OF BRABANT, daughter of Henri I, Duke of Lorraine and Brabant, Margrave of Antwerp, by his 1st wife Machtild (or Mahaud), daughter and co-heiress of Mathieu of Flanders, Count of Boulogne. They had no issue. OTTO IV, late Emperor, died at the Harzburg 19 May 1218, and was buried in the collegiate church of St. Blaise, now Braunschweig Cathedral in Braunschweig, Germany. His widow Maria, married (2nd) in July 1220 WILHELM (or WILLEM) I, Count of Holland. She died between 9 March and 24 June 1260.
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