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Coat of arms
  

Name
  
Ocko tom

Successor
  
Focko Ukena

Noble family
  
Tom Brok

Predecessor
  
Keno II tom Brok

Father
  
Keno II tom Brok


Ocko II tom Brok

Died
  
1435, Norden, Lower Saxony, Germany

Chieftain of Brokmerland
  
1417–1427

After the early death of his father, Ocko II tom Brok (1407–1435) was Chieftain of the Brokmerland and the Auricherland in East Frisia (initially under the guardianship of his grandmother, Foelke).

Ocko was born in 1407 to Keno II tom Brok, son of Ocko I tom Brok. He was the last East Frisian chieftain from the tom Brok line. Under his reign there was a revolt by the other Frisian chieftains against tom Brok. A conflict with his ally, Focko Ukena, in 1424, led to open conflict in 1426. Ocko married Ingeborg of Oldenburg, and therefore, supported by the counts, asked them for assistance. They sent an army of knights, which was defeated by Focko Ukena and his peasant army on 27 September 1426 in the Battle of Detern. A year later on 28 October 1427, Ocko II was finally defeated at the Battle of the Wild Fields and fell into captivity. He was taken to Leer and imprisoned for four years. In 1435 he died, powerless, as the last of his line in Norden.

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