Search results
Feb 2, 2012 · Otto I was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope John XII on February 2nd 962. Nostalgia for the vanished Roman Empire in the West lasted for centuries after Romulus Augustulus, the final emperor, was deposed in 476. It eventually created one of history’s oddest institutions. The Holy Roman Empire, as Voltaire sardonically remarked, was ...
Otto died in 1002 and was succeeded as German king by his cousin Henry II, who would become Holy Roman emperor in 1014, when he was crowned by Pope Benedict VIII. During his reign Henry sought to centralize control over the Holy Roman Empire’s territories and further strengthen imperial power over the church.
Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red ( der Rote ), was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy . Otto II was made joint-ruler of Germany in 961, at an early age, and his father named him co-Emperor in ...
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto I the Great (German: Otto I. der Große), was German king from 936 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 until his death in 973. He was the oldest son of Henry I the Fowler and Matilda. Otto inherited the Duchy of Saxony and the kingship of the Germans upon his father's ...
Sep 5, 2023 · BIOGRAPHY: b. 955. d. Dec. 7, 983, Rome. German king from 961 and Holy Roman emperor from 967, sole ruler from 973, son of Otto I and his second wife, Adelaide. Otto continued his father's policies of promoting a strong monarchy in Germany and of extending the influence of his house in Italy. In 961 he was crowned co-regent king of Italy and ...
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 ...
Sep 14, 2023 · Otto IV of Brunswick (1175 or 1176 – May 19, 1218) was one of two rival kings of the Holy Roman Empire from 1198 on, sole king from 1208 on, and emperor from 1209 on. The only king of the Welf dynasty, he was deposed in 1215. Biography. Otto was born in Normandy, the son of Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and Matilda Plantagenet.
