Otto von Botenlauben

After that, Otto travelled to the Holy Land and made a career in the kingdom of Jerusalem, where he gained good standing, prosperity and married Beatrix de Courtenay, the daughter of the royal seneschal Joscelin III of Edessa, in 1205.

[1] In 1220, he sold his hereditary lands (iure uxoris), the seigneurie de Joscelin, to the Teutonic Knights and returned to Germany, where he would attend the royal court often in the years that followed.

The cloister was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, but their headstone remains to this day.

His works are limited: twelve love songs have survived and one Leich.

A few strophes are collected in the Weingarten Manuscript and the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift, the latter under the name of Niune.