Genealogie Van der Beek » Otto IV van BENTHEIM (± 1135-± 1208)

Persoonlijke gegevens Otto IV van BENTHEIM 

• Hij is geboren rond 1135.
• Hij is overleden rond 1208.
• Een kind van Dirk VI of Holland en Sophia van Rheineck

Gezin van Otto IV van BENTHEIM

Hij is getrouwd met Alveradis van Arnsberg.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Marina van BENTHEIM  ± 1190-1252 

Notities over Otto IV van BENTHEIM

Otto was Count of Bentheim (now in Germany) and also of Coevorden inThe Netherlands. In 1173, he traveled with his mother Sophia of Rheineckon her second journey to Jerusalem where she died a few years later.Count Otto returned and became an assistant to the Emperor of Germany.In 1189 he took part in the Third Crusade with his brother Floris III.

In spite of all the wars fought in and around the Holy Land, theEuropeans lost more men to Cholera, dysentery and other diseases and tohunger and thirst than they did to battle. Even the wounds received wereseldom fatal in themselves, since the armor that covered them from headto feet seldom allowed life threatening wounds. But in that day of poorsanitation and lack of medicine, even a slight scratch was likely tobecome infected, resulting at best in the loss of a limb, and at worst,death. Although this problem applied to everyone, it was noticed thatthose from the German countries seemed to suffer less than those fromEngland and France. This was attributed to the Will of God. But inretrospect, it may have been due more to a difference in culture andhabit than it was to divine intervention.

Food was always a problem for any army, but especially one going tothe Holy Land. Even if food was brought along, it usually went bad longbefore it was eaten, and especially after being stored in the swelteringheat of Palestine, food poisoning soon became a major hazard. But theGerman troops had a different way of transporting food. When a soldierleft Germany for war, he would wrap long strings of sausages around hisbody and that of his horses. Packaged on air tight intestines and filledwhen hot and sterile, they could be stored almost indefinitely in mostconditions. Even when one was sliced off, the high fat content soonhardened into a protective covering that kept the rest of the tube fromgoing rotten. As a result, the German troops generally had a much betterdiet than those of their contemporaries and suffered less as a result.

They also had another idiosyncrasy that was laughed at by theirsouthern companions. After a battle, they would bandage their minorwounds, as did all the soldiers, but underneath the bandages they wouldput moldy biscuits to absorb the blood. It is likely that this firstprimitive use of penicillin kept their mortality rate low enough to benoticeable.

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