Otto von Lutterberg
Otto von Lutterberg (died 16 February 1270) was the Ordensmeister of the Livonian Order of the Teutonic Knights from 1266 to 1270
Battle of Rakvere took place during his command of the Livonian Order, when on February 18, 1268 the combined forces of vassals of the Danish crown, Livonian Knights and local Estonian militia defeated the combined forces of Novgorod and Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.[1] However, according to the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle Otto von Luttenberg was not present during the battle (being at that time in Semgallia) but did lead the following year, in June 1269, Livonian retaliatory expedition to the lands of Pskov, where the forces under his command burned the castle of Izborsk, the town around Pskov castle and laid siege to the castle itself. The siege ended with a truce[2] after the defenders received reinforcements from Novgorod and Otto von Luttenberg had to hastily travel to Riga where he kidnapped and arrested the Archbishop of Riga Alfred Suerbeer, and thus solved the long-simmering power struggle with the Archbishop in favor of the Order, the bishop being released only after he promised not to appeal to the Pope or oppose the Order in the future.[3]
Otto von Luttenberg was killed in 1270 at the Battle of Karuse against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Otto von Lutterberg is buried in Karuse village church, in present-day Estonia.[4]
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