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unusual facts about Otto VI, Count of Tecklenburg



Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig

This is the last time she is mentioned; in 1386, her nephew Otto VI, Count of Tecklenburg gave permission to her nephew Eric of Saxony to claim Otto's inhertience after Richardis in his name.

Simon III, Lord of Lippe

In the ancestral lands around the cities of Lippstadt and Rheda, however, the situation was complicated, because after the death of his uncle Bernard V, around 1365, his widow Richarda had initially given his part of Lippe to Count Otto VI of Tecklenburg, who was the husband of her eldest daughter.


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