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Adalberto King of Italy fled to Burgundy after he was expelled from Italy by Emperor Otto I in the mid-960s. After ex-King Adalberto died in 971, his widow married Henri Duke of Burgundy [Capet], who adopted as his heir Othon-Guillaume who was his wife’s son by her first marriage.
Count of Burgundy (Bourgogne). Typically known by the double name Otte-Guillaume in the modern literature, he appears in records occasionally as Otto, also called Guillaume [" Otto comes, cognomento Willelmus " Chron. S.-Bénigne, 162-4; " Nobiliter natus Guillelmus et Otho vocatus " ibid., 181; " Otto, qui et Willelmus dictus est " ibid ...
Otto I (1117 – 11 July 1183), called the Redhead ( German: der Rotkopf ), was Duke of Bavaria from 1180 until his death. He was also called Otto VI as Count Palatine of Bavaria from 1156 to 1180. He was the first Bavarian ruler from the House of Wittelsbach, a dynasty which reigned until the abdication of King Ludwig III of Bavaria in the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Otto (or Oddo) (c. 851 – 30 November 912), called the Illustrious (der Erlauchte) by later authors, was the Duke of Saxony from 880 to his death. He was the younger son of Duke Liudolf of Saxony and his wife Oda of Billung, and succeeded his brother Bruno as duke after the latter's death in battle in 880.
Mar 22, 2017 · Otto I (c. 1180 – 7 May 1234), a member of the House of Andechs, was Duke of Merania from 1204 until his death. He was also Count of Burgundy (as Otto II ) from 1208 to 1231, by his marriage to Countess Beatrice II , and Margrave of Istria and Carniola from 1228 until his death.
Henry I, Duke of Burgundy. Henry I (946 – 15 October 1002), called the Great, [a] was Duke of Burgundy from 965 to his death and Count of Nevers through his first marriage. He is sometimes known as Odo-Henry or Otto-Henry (in French Eudes-Henri ), since his birth name was "Odo" and he only adopted "Henry" on being elected duke of Burgundy.
Otto ( French: Odon, Oddon, Othon; Italian: Oddone; c. 1023 – c. 1057 /1060) [1] was count of Savoy from around 1051 until his death. Through marriage to Adelaide, the heiress of Ulric Manfred II, he also administered the march of Susa from around 1046 until his death.
