Otto von Botenlauben
Otto von Botenlauben or Botenlouben (1177,
minnesinger, Crusader
and monastic founder.
Otto von Botenlauben was the fourth son of Count Poppo VI von Henneberg and his wife Sophia, countess of
Henneberg. In 1206, he pronounced himself Count von Botenlauben, after Botenlauben Castle
near Bad Kissingen, the ruins of which remain to this day.
Otto’s existence is first recorded at the court of
Teutonic Knights
and returned to Germany, where he would attend the royal court often in the years that followed. His sons, Otto and Henry, as well as his grandson Albert, joined the clergy and so Otto’s line ended without an heir.
Otto and his wife founded the
Frauenroth in 1231, where both are buried. The cloister was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War
, but their headstone remains to this day.
Otto was one of the minnesingers collated in the Codex Manesse. His works are limited: twelve love songs have survived and one Leich. A few strophes are collected in the Weingarten Manuscript and the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift, the latter under the name of Niune.[1][2]
References
- ISBN 3-87717-703-4(Bad Kissinger Archiv-Schriften 1)
- ISBN 3-8053-3240-8
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