Otto I OF GUELDERS , Count of Guelders
- Born: 1150
- Marriage (1): Richardis OF BAVARIA in 1186
- Died: 1207 aged 57
General Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I,_Count_of_Guelders
Otto I of Guelders joined his Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa on the Third Crusade (1189\endash 1192) during which he aided the Crusader army in the taking of Iconium. After the death of Frederick I Barbarossa, some of the crusaders in the army left for home but Otto joined one of the groups that went on towards Syria and Palestine. After arriving in the Holy Land, Otto joined the army of Guy of Lusignan, the King of Jerusalem, who was besieging the city of Acre. Further hardships decimated the army of the late Frederick, and by the spring of 1191 most of them had left for home. Otto was the only survivor from the Low Countries, and returned home in 1190.
He is mentioned as the first Count of the combined area of Guelders and Zutphen in 1190. One of his sons was Otto, Bishop of Utrecht from 1212 until 1213.
Otto married Richardis OF BAVARIA, daughter of Otto Ier "der Rotkopf)" OF BAVARIA , Duke of Bavaria, Count Palatine and Agnes OF LOON, in 1186. (Richardis OF BAVARIA was born in 1173 in Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany and died on 7 Dec 1231 in Roermond, The Netherlands.)
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