Otto II of Nassau

Otto II of Nassau (ca. 1305 – died in battle December 1330/January 1331) Count of Nassau-Dillenburg in Siegen and Dillenburg, was a son of Count Heinrich of Nassau and Adelheid of Heinsberg. ^[1]

Otto married Adelheid of Vianden, daughter of Philip of Vianden and Adelheid of Arnsberg. They had four children:^[2]

• Adelheid of Nassau, who became a nun at Keppel, and later became an Abbess.
• Johan I of Nassau who married Margareta van der Marck.
• Heinrich "the Swashbuckler" (died 5 September 1402 in Kassel) became a Canon at the Cologne Cathedral.
• Otto of Nassau, first a canon and provost of St Moritz at Mainz, and later canon at Köln and Mainz cathedrals.

References

1. ^ De Nederlandsche leeuw: Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde, Volumes 1889-1894, pg 89-91 Google Books
2. ^ House of Nassau at Medieval Lands