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| name        = Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg
| image       = Herzog Otto I. von Braunschweig und Lüneburg.jpg
| caption     =
| noble family= [[House of Welf]]
| father      = [[Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]
| mother      = [[Margarete of Saxony (1469-1528)|Margarete of Saxony]]
| spouse      = Meta von Campe
| issue       = [[Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg|Otto II]]<br>Susanna
| birth_date  = 24 August 1495
| birth_place =
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1549|8|11|1495|8|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Harburg (quarter)|Harburg]]
}}
'''Otto, [[Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]''' (24 August 1495 – 11 August 1549) was the [[Principality of Lüneburg|Prince of Lüneburg]] from 1520 to 1527 and Baron of [[Harburg (quarter)|Harburg]] from 1527 to 1549.
== Life ==
Otto was born on 24 August 1495 as the eldest son of [[Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Henry the Middle]] and his wife, [[Margarete of Saxony (1469-1528)|Margarete of Saxony]]. Like his brothers, [[Ernest I of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Ernest]] and [[Francis of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Francis]] he studied at [[Lutherstadt Wittenberg|Wittenberg]] and was affected early on by the reformatory ideas of [[Martin Luther]] and was later a driving force behind the introduction of [[the Reformation]] in the [[Principality of Lüneburg]]. When his father had to leave the state in 1520 as a result of his role in the [[Hildesheim Diocesan Feud]] and go into exile in [[France]], Otto took over the reins of power in the principality jointly with his brother Ernest. Because the principality was seriously in debt - all the ''[[Vogt]]eis'' being enfeoffed with the exception of the ''Schlossvogtei'' of Celle - a major priority during his reign was sorting out the duchy’s finances. In 1527 Otto married ''Meta von Campe'', a woman who was below his station, and was compensated with his own domain, the Barony of [[Harburg (quarter)|Harburg]]. He died on 11 August 1549.
== Family ==
Otto married in 1527 to Meta von Campe (died 1580) and they had 7 children:
* Anne (1526–1527)
* Otto (1527)
* Ernest (1527–1540)
* [[Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg|Otto II]] (1528–1603)
* Frederick (1530–1533)
* Margarete (1532–1539)
* Susanna (1536–1581)
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg'''
|2= 2. [[Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]
|3= 3. [[Margarete of Saxony (1469-1528)|Margaret of Saxony]]
|4= 4. [[Otto V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]
|5= 5. [[Anne of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1514)|Anne of Nassau-Siegen]]
|6= 6. [[Ernest, Elector of Saxony]]
|7= 7. [[Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony|Elisabeth of Bavaria]]
|8= 8. [[Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]
|9= 9. [[Magdalene of Brandenburg]]
|10= 10. [[John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]]
|11= 11. [[Mary of Looz-Heinsberg]]
|12= 12. [[Frederick II, Elector of Saxony]]
|13= 13. [[Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony|Margaret of Austria]]
|14= 14. [[Albert III, Duke of Bavaria|Albert III, Duke of Bavaria-Munich]]
|15= 15. [[Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck]]
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== Sources ==
* Geckler, Christa (1986). ''Die Celler Herzöge: Leben und Wirken 1371–1705''. Celle: Georg Ströher. {{Listed Invalid ISBN|3-921744-05-8}}. {{OCLC|255990175}}.
== External links ==
* [http://www.welfen.de House of Welf]
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[[Category:Princes of Lüneburg]]
[[Category:1495 births]]
[[Category:1549 deaths]]
[[Category:Converts to Lutheranism from Roman Catholicism]]
[[Category:Middle House of Lüneburg]]