Otto VIII, Count of Hoya

Otto VIII, Count of Hoya
Spouse(s) Agnes of Bentheim-Steinfurt
Noble family House of Hoya
Father Jobst II, Count of Hoya
Mother Anna of Gleichen
Born 1530
Died 25 February 1582(1582-02-25)
Hoya Castle, Hoya
Buried Church of St. Martin in Nienburg

Otto VIII, Count of Hoya (1530 25 February 1582 at Hoya Castle in Hoya) was the last ruling Count of Hoya.

Life

Otto was the third son of Count Jobst II and his wife Anna of Gleichen. At first, he was canon in Cologne and Verden. After the childless death of his older brother Albert II in 1563, Otto VIII and his brother Eric V, took up government of the county.

Otto married in 1568 to Agnes of Bentheim-Steinfurt, the widow of Count John II of Rietberg, who was also the mother Armgard, who was the wife of Otto's brother Eric. After Eric also died childless in 1575, Otto ruled the county alone.

"Otto, Count of Hoya and Burghausen," signed the Formula of Concord of 1577, and the Book of Concord of 1580.[1]

Otto VIII died childless on 25 November 1582 at Hoya Castle. He was buried in the church of St. Martin in Nienburg; his tomb is lcoated in the hall below the tower. With his death, the House of Hoya died out, and the county fell back to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

References

Footnotes

  1. See the Book of Concord, pp. 16 and 764
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