Otto II, Count of Waldeck was Count of Waldeck from 1344 until his death.
Otto was the son of Count Henry IV of Waldeck and his wife Adelaide of Cleves. He married in 1339 or 1340 to Matilda, a daughter of Duke Otto III of Brunswick-Luneburg. They had at least two children:
Henry VI, Otto's successor
Sophie, a nun at Volkhardinghausen monastery
Matilda died in 1357 or earlier. Soon after her death, Otto married his second wife, Margaret, the widow of Heinemann of Itter (d. 1356).
No children from this marriage are known.
Otto II was co-regent with his father from 1332. His father withdrew from government in 1344, allowing Otto II to rule aline. In 1345, he concluded an everlasting covenant with Archbishop Henry III of Mainz. On 8 July 1358, Otto, who was still reeling from the plague epidemic of 1349, commissioned the Knights Hospitaller at Wiesenfeld (now part of Burgwald to establish a hospital in Niederwildungen. He donated his old Mill Court on the Wilde river between Altwildungen and Niederwildungen for this purpose. Construction of the hospital lasted from 1358 to 1369 and became a commandry of the order in 1372
Otto was the son of Count Henry IV of Waldeck and his wife Adelaide of Cleves. He married in 1339 or 1340 to Matilda, a daughter of Duke Otto III of Brunswick-Luneburg. They had at least two children:
Henry VI, Otto's successor
Sophie, a nun at Volkhardinghausen monastery
Matilda died in 1357 or earlier. Soon after her death, Otto married his second wife, Margaret, the widow of Heinemann of Itter (d. 1356).
No children from this marriage are known.
Otto II was co-regent with his father from 1332. His father withdrew from government in 1344, allowing Otto II to rule aline. In 1345, he concluded an everlasting covenant with Archbishop Henry III of Mainz. On 8 July 1358, Otto, who was still reeling from the plague epidemic of 1349, commissioned the Knights Hospitaller at Wiesenfeld (now part of Burgwald to establish a hospital in Niederwildungen. He donated his old Mill Court on the Wilde river between Altwildungen and Niederwildungen for this purpose. Construction of the hospital lasted from 1358 to 1369 and became a commandry of the order in 1372
Otto II, Count of Waldeck was Count of Waldeck from 1344 until his death.
Otto was the son of Count Henry IV of Waldeck and his wife Adelaide of Cleves. He married in 1339 or 1340 to Matilda, a daughter of Duke Otto III of Brunswick-Luneburg. They had at least two children:
Henry VI, Otto's successor
Sophie, a nun at Volkhardinghausen monastery
Matilda died in 1357 or earlier. Soon after her death, Otto married his second wife, Margaret, the widow of Heinemann of Itter (d. 1356).
No children from this marriage are known.
Otto II was co-regent with his father from 1332. His father withdrew from government in 1344, allowing Otto II to rule aline. In 1345, he concluded an everlasting covenant with Archbishop Henry III of Mainz. On 8 July 1358, Otto, who was still reeling from the plague epidemic of 1349, commissioned the Knights Hospitaller at Wiesenfeld (now part of Burgwald to establish a hospital in Niederwildungen. He donated his old Mill Court on the Wilde river between Altwildungen and Niederwildungen for this purpose. Construction of the hospital lasted from 1358 to 1369 and became a commandry of the order in 1372
Otto was the son of Count Henry IV of Waldeck and his wife Adelaide of Cleves. He married in 1339 or 1340 to Matilda, a daughter of Duke Otto III of Brunswick-Luneburg. They had at least two children:
Henry VI, Otto's successor
Sophie, a nun at Volkhardinghausen monastery
Matilda died in 1357 or earlier. Soon after her death, Otto married his second wife, Margaret, the widow of Heinemann of Itter (d. 1356).
No children from this marriage are known.
Otto II was co-regent with his father from 1332. His father withdrew from government in 1344, allowing Otto II to rule aline. In 1345, he concluded an everlasting covenant with Archbishop Henry III of Mainz. On 8 July 1358, Otto, who was still reeling from the plague epidemic of 1349, commissioned the Knights Hospitaller at Wiesenfeld (now part of Burgwald to establish a hospital in Niederwildungen. He donated his old Mill Court on the Wilde river between Altwildungen and Niederwildungen for this purpose. Construction of the hospital lasted from 1358 to 1369 and became a commandry of the order in 1372
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