Otto I, Count of Salm [SEP] date of death
Otto I, Count of Salm
Otto I, Count of Salm ( – 1150) was a German nobleman. He was a ruling count of Salm and from 1125 to 1137, he was co-ruler of the County Palatine of the Rhine with his stepson William.
Life.
His parents were the German anti-king Hermann of Salm and his wife Sophia of Formbach. Around 1115, he married Gertrude, the widow of Count Palatine Siegfried of Ballenstedt, daughter and heir of Henry, Margrave of Frisia and
-1124)
- Adela of Weimar-Orlamünde, married Conrad I of Peilstein
- William of Weimar-Orlamünde (1112-1140)
Second Marriage.
After Siegfried’s death in 1113, Gertrude married again. Her second husband was Otto I, Count of Salm, son of the German anti-king Hermann of Salm. Part of the reason Gertrude married Otto was to secure a male protector for her underage sons, Siegfried II and William.
With Otto, Gertrude had several children, including: