Otto IV of Brunswick, Holy Roman Emperor^{[1, 2]}

1175 - 1218  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Otto IV of Brunswick
  		Marriage of Otto IV and Marie de Brabant
  Suffix	Holy Roman Emperor
  Born	ca. 1175	Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Title	Jun 1198	Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   [3]
  	King of Germany.
  Military	27 Jul 1214	Bouvines, Nord, Nord-Pais-de-Calais, France   [4, 5]
  	Battle of Bouvines
  		Battle of Bouvines At Bouvines, French king Philip defeated English king John I's allied force of German, Flemish and English armies under the command of his nephew, German king Otto IV. (This was to be coordinated with the opening of a second front in Aquitaine by John.) This ended the king's efforts to recover his Angevin lands. As a military failure it cost John his remaining political capital at home.
  House	Welf
  Died	19 May 1218	The Harzburg, Bad Harzburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
  Buried	Brunswick Cathedral, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
  Person ID	I10857	Dickinson
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	Heinrich der Löwe, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria,   b. 1129, Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ,   d. 6 Aug 1195, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany  (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony,   b. Jun 1156, London, England ,   d. 28 Jun 1189, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany  (Age ~ 33 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	1 Feb 1168	Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany   [6, 7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F2979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie de Brabant, Holy Roman Empress,   b. ca. 1191,   d. 1260  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Married	19 May 1214	Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
  	No issue.
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F5845	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - ca. 1175 - Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany Title - King of Germany. - Jun 1198 - Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Married - 19 May 1214 - Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Military - Battle of Bouvines - 27 Jul 1214 - Bouvines, Nord, Nord-Pais-de-Calais, France Died - 19 May 1218 - The Harzburg, Bad Harzburg, Lower Saxony, Germany Buried - - Brunswick Cathedral, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

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