Otton II de Trazegnies de Blicquy

Abt 1150 - Abt 1192  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Otton II de Trazegnies de Blicquy
  Birth	Abt 1150  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1192  [1]
  Person ID	I24564	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	31 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Gilles I de Blicquy,   b. Abt 1125   d. Between 1161 and 1162 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Family ID	F14734	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mathilde de Neyghem   d. Bef 1219
  Marriage	Abt 1176  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elisabeth de Trazegnies + 2. Gilles II de Trazegnies   d. 1204
  Family ID	F14733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2019

  
  

• Notes

  "In 1186 Otton went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and in 1187 he brought back a piece purporting to be of the True Cross, that he offered to the abbey of Floreffe (the splendid reliquary made for it is in the Louvre. Another tradition claims that he brought back with him the design for windmills. In 1189 he left on crusade (probably with Philippe, count of Flanders) to recapture Jerusalem, which had been taken by Saladin after the Battle of Hattin in 1187. He fought between Jaffa and Ascalon on 6 November 1291 and was helped by Richard the Lionheart himself. In April 1192 he was appointed, with Henri II, comte de Champagne and Guillaume Cayeux, to offer the crown of Jerusalem to Conrad, marchese de Monferrato. However Conrad was assassinated on 26 April, and on 5 May Otton attended the wedding of Conrad's widow Isabella d'Anjou, queen of Jerusalem, and Henri II, comte de Champagne, who became king of Jerusalem by right of his wife. Otton died later that year, probably killed in the siege of Acre." [Leo van de Pas, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.