English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg heir because his only son had already drowned as a child in the River Ilmenau. Otto had the following children from his marriage to Matilda of Mecklenburg (1293–1358), daughter of Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg: Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1296 – 19 August 1352) was Prince of Lüneburg from 1330 to 1352. Otto was born about 1296 as the second son of Otto the Strict and his wife Matilda of Bavaria, and was introduced to the business of government by his father as early as 1314. The stipulation by his father in 1315