Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach


Otto Henry of Sulzbach was the Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1569 until 1604.

Life

Otto Henry was born in Amberg in 1556 as one of five sons of Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. After his father's death in 1569, his lands were partitioned between Otto Henry and his four brothers — Otto Henry received the territory around Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Otto Henry died in Sulzbach in 1604 and was buried in Lauingen. Without any surviving sons, Sulzbach was inherited by his brother Philip Louis of Palatinate-Neuburg.

Marriage

Otto Henry married Dorothea Maria of Württemberg, daughter of Duke Christopher, on 25 November 1582 and had the following children:
  1. Louis
  2. Anne Elizabeth
  3. George Frederick
  4. Dorothea Sophie
  5. Sabine, married in 1625 Baron George of Wartenberg.
  6. Otto George
  7. Susanne, married in 1613 George John II, Count Palatine of Lützelstein-Guttenberg.
  8. Marie Elizabeth
  9. Anne Sybille
  10. Anne Sophie
  11. Magdalena Sabine
  12. Dorothea Ursula
  13. Frederick Christian

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