!!!Otakar II

Otakar II, 
d. 1122, Margrave of Styria, son of  Otakar I, grandfather of  Otakar 
III, member of the  Otakare dynasty. On the Pope's side during the 
Investiture Controversy, which led to a fight with his brother 
Adalbero, who was on the Emperor's side and who fell in 1086 or 1087. 
After the  Eppensteiner family died out, O. inherited their 
possessions in the Mur and Muerz valleys; founded the collegiate 
convent in Garsten, Upper Austria, to which he called the Benedictine 
order in 1108.



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