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- Otto II (died 8 November 1111) was a Graf (Count) of Habsburg and one of the founding members of the Habsburg family. He was the son of Werner I, Count of Habsburg. In 1108, Otto accompanied King Henry V on a campaign against Hungary. On his return, in 1111, he was murdered.
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Werner I, Count of Habsburg. Mother. Reginlinde of Nellenburg. Otto II (died 8 November 1111) was a Graf (Count) of Habsburg and one of the founding members of the Habsburg family. He was the son of Werner I, Count of Habsburg.
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- Werner I, Count of Habsburg
- Reginlinde of Nellenburg
- Werner II, Adelheid, Gertrude
His grandson Otto II was the first to take the fortress name as his own, adding "Count of Habsburg" to his title. In 1273, Count Radbot's seventh-generation descendant, Rudolph of Habsburg, was elected King of the Romans.
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Ita von Pfirt bzw. Ferrette about 1091, in Habsburg, Aargau, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 8 November 1112, in Budenheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the age of 55, and was buried in Muri, Aargau, Switzerland.
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Otto was born at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria-Hungary, during the reign of his great-granduncle, Franz Joseph I of Austria. He was baptised Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius on 25 November 1912 at Villa Wartholz by Franz Xaver Cardinal Nagl, Prince-Archbi...
Otto denounced Nazism, stating: He strongly opposed the Anschluss, and in 1938 requested Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resist Nazi Germany. He supported international intervention and offered to return from exile to take over the reins of government to repel the Nazis.According to Gerald Warner, "Austrian Jews were among the strongest sup...
At the end of the war, Otto returned to Europe and lived for several years in France and Spain. As he did not possess a passport and was effectively stateless, he was given a passport of the Principality of Monaco, thanks to the intervention of Charles de Gaulle in 1946. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, of which he was a knight, also issued h...
An early advocate of a unified Europe, Otto was president of the International Paneuropean Union from 1973 to 2004.[citation needed] He served from 1979 until 1999 as a Member of the European Parliament for the conservative Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) party, eventually becoming the senior member of the European Parliament. He was also a...
At the end of 1998 Habsburg was targeted by criticism and the public prosecutor's office in Munich because he compared the allegations and calls for resignation against his son Karl Habsburg in connection with the World Visiondonation affair with the Nazi persecution of the Jews: Karl Habsburg's EU election campaign for the ÖVP in 1996 was partly f...
After the death of his wife, Regina, aged 85, in Pöcking on 3 February 2010, Otto stopped appearing in public. He died at the age of 98 on Monday, 4 July 2011, at his home in Pöcking, Germany. His spokeswoman reported that he died "peacefully and without pain in his sleep". On 5 July, his body was laid in repose in the Church of St. Ulrich near his...
He married Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen in 1951 at the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers in Nancy, capital city of Lorraine. They were fourth cousins as both were descendants of Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth. The wedding was attended by his mother, Empress Zita. He retu...
20 November 1912 – 21 November 1916: His Imperial and Royal HighnessArchduke and Imperial Prince Otto of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia21 November 1916 – 4 July 2011: His Imperial and Royal HighnessThe Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and CroatiaBrook-Shepherd, Gordon (2007). Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1852855499.Flavia Foradini, Otto d'Asburgo. L'ultimo atto di una dinastia, mgs press, Trieste, 2004. ISBN 8889219041Hatos, P. (2018). Az elátkozott köztársaság: az 1918-as összeomlás és az őszirózsás forradal...Hatos, P. (2018). Az elátkozott köztársaság: az 1918-as összeomlás és az őszirózsás forradalom története.Stefan Haderer, Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011): The Life of an Uncrowned Emperor, Royalty Digest Quarterly, Vol. 3/2011, Rosvall Royal Books, Falköping 2011Otto von Habsburg Obituary – The Independent (London, UK) 2011 By Martin ChildsAppearances on C-SPAN(Otto Von Habsburg)Appearances on C-SPAN(Otto Habsburg)When Otto II von Habsburg was born in 1057, in Habsburg, Aargau, Switzerland, his father, Werner I Count of Klettgau, was 32 and his mother, Reginlinde of Nellenburg, was 30. He married Ida von Ferrette about 1091, in Habsburg, Aargau, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
Brief Life History of Otto II. When Otto II von Habsburg was born in 1057, in Habsburg, Aargau, Switzerland, his father, Werner I von Habsburg, was 27 and his mother, Reginlind von Nellenburg, was 30. He married Hilda bzw. Ita von Pfirt bzw. Ferrette about 1091, in Habsburg, Aargau, Switzerland.
Read biography. Otto was the eldest son of the last Emperor and Empress of Austria, Karl und Zita, and is thus referred to as the last ‘crown prince’ of the dynasty. In the transition from pretender to the Habsburg throne to committed European politician his long life reflects the history of Central Europe in the twentieth century.
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