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Otto Cocles

c. 1380–1463 · 15th century · Also known as Otto the One-Eyed

Otto Cocles, also called Otto the One-Eyed, was a Welf duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg who ruled the Principality of Göttingen from 1394. Nearly blind, he handed the government to his estates in 1435. On his death in 1463 the principality passed to the Wolfenbüttel branch of the dynasty and was later joined to the Principality of Calenberg.

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