Otto, Duke of Austria
| Otto IV | |
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| Duke of Austria | |
Painting by Antoni Boys, c. 1580
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| Predecessor | Frederick the Fair |
| Successor | Rudolf IV |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth of Lower Bavaria |
| Noble family | House of Habsburg |
| Father | Albert I of Germany |
| Mother | Elizabeth of Carinthia |
| Born |
23 July 1301 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 17 February 1339 (aged 37) Neuberg Abbey, Styria |
Otto IV, the Merry (German: der Fröhliche; 23 July 1301 – 17 February 1339), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria and Styria from 1330, as well as Duke of Carinthia from 1335 until his death. He ruled jointly with his elder brother Duke Albert II.
Otto was born in the Austrian capital Vienna, the youngest son of King Albert I of Germany and Elizabeth of Carinthia, a member of the House of Gorizia-Tyrol (Meinhardiner). His elder brothers were Rudolf III, who beame King of Bohemia in 1306, Frederick the Fair, elected King of the Romans in opposition to Louis the Bavarian in 1314, the Austrian dukes Leopold I and Albert II as well as Henry the Friendly.
After the murder of King Albert I in 1308, the Habsburgs lost out in the struggle around the German throne, when Frederick the Fair was defeated by his Wittelsbach rival Louis in the 1322 Battle of Mühldorf. In the course of a rapprochement of both dynasties, Otto married Elizabeth of Wittelsbach, a daughter of Duke Stephen I of Bavaria. In 1327 he founded Neuberg Abbey in Styria, on the occasion of the birth of his first son Frederick II, and the Chapel of Saint George in the Augustinian Church in Vienna. When his wife Elizabeth died in 1330, she was buried at the Neuberg Abbey church.
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