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 Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide of Italy.
Upon his father's death in 973, he was accepted as Holy Roman Emperor without opposition.
Otto was named co-regent king of Italy and Germany with his father Otto I in 961 and became co-emperor in 967.
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 Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was elected king of Germany in 983 on the death of his father (Holy Roman Emperor Otto II).
Otto made Rome the administrative center of his empire and revived elaborate Roman customs and Byzantine court ceremonies.
Otto III (980 - January 23, 1002) was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty.
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 otto i, holy roman emperor
Otto I the Great (912- May 7, 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of Saxony, King of Germany and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Though the term "Holy Roman Empire" was not used for more than 200 years afterwards, Otto is sometimes considered its founder, and is counted as the first in a succession of emperors of various dynasties which ended only in 1806.
Otto began the association between the title of Emperor and the German kingship.)
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 Theophanu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her true parentage is a matter of some dispute -- the German emperor had requested a Greek princess for his son, Otto, to seal a treaty between the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire.
Otto II died suddenly on December 7, 983 and was buried in Rome.
It is unlikely that Theophanu was the daughter of any emperor -- the current theory is that her father was Konstantinos Skleros (brother of the pretender) and her mother was Sophia Phokaina (niece of Emperor Nicephorus II and the sister of Tzimisces' wife Maria Skleraina).
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 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otto I the Great (November 23, 912- May 7, 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of Saxony, King of the Germans and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Otto unsuccessfully campaigned in southern Italy on several occasions from 966-972, although in 972, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimisces recognized Otto's imperial title and agreed to a marriage between Otto's son and heir Otto II and his niece Theophano.
Henry fled to France, and Otto responded by supporting Hugh the Great in his campaign against the French crown, but in 941 Otto and Henry were reconciled through the efforts of their mother, and the next year Otto withdrew from France after Louis recognized his suzerainty over Lorraine.
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 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otto I the Great (November 23, 912 – May 7, 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of the Saxons, King of the Germans and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor.
In 972, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimisces recognized Otto's imperial title and agreed to a marriage between Otto's son and heir Otto II and his niece Theophano.
Henry fled to France, and Otto responded by supporting Hugh the Great in his campaign against the French crown, but in 941 Otto and Henry were reconciled through the efforts of their mother, and the next year Otto withdrew from France after Louis recognized his suzerainty over Lorraine.
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 Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was elected king of Germany in 983 on the death of his father (Holy Roman Emperor Otto II).
Otto made Rome the administrative center of his empire and revived elaborate Roman customs and Byzantine court ceremonies.
Shortly after his coronation, Henry II, deposed Duke of Bavaria, seized him in an attempt to procure the regency, but in May 984 he was forced to return Otto to his mother, the Byzantine princess Theophanu, who served as regent until her death in 991.
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 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick II (December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250.
Otto's decisive military loss at Bouvines lost him the practical means to hold onto kingship and emperorship, and he withdrew to the Guelph hereditary lands to die, virtually without supporters, in 1218.
Otto, crushed in the Battle of Bouvines by the French, died some years later, a lonely man in the Harzburg, while Frederick would be crowned Emperor in Rome by the pope.
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 Otto III Holy Roman Emperor: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Holy Roman emperor 955 83, Holy Roman emperor (973 83) and German king (961 83), son and successor of Otto I. He was crowned joint emperor in...Verona, where he had his son Otto III elected German king.
...German imperial law by Emperor Lothar in the twelfth...specific doctrines from Roman law had been introduced...Law Literature of the Holy Roman Empire Chicago, 1973...at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation...
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 Otto IV
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, second son of Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, and Matilda, daughter of Henry II, king of England, was most probably born at Argenton in central France.
Having occupied Tuscany he marched into Apulia, part of the kingdom of Frederick of Hohenstaufen, afterwards the emperor Frederick II, and on the 18th of November 1210 was excommunicated by the pope.
The earlier course of the war was unfavorable to Otto, whose position was weakened by the death of Richard of England in April 1199; but his cause began to improve when Pope Innocent III declared for him and placed his rival under the ban in April 1201.
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 Encyclopedia: Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806.
The title of "emperor" was considered to have passed from the Romans to the Frankish kingdom when, in AD 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, emperor in exchange for the protection of the church.
Until 1508, the King of the Romans, who was elected by a group of princes later known as electors, became emperor when he was crowned by the pope in Rome, after which he remained king (a title with functions in feudal law).
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 Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He was the son of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide of Italy.
Upon his father's death in 973, he was accepted as Holy Roman Emperor without opposition.
Otto was named co-regent king of Italy and Germany with his father Otto I in 961 and became co-emperor in 967.
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 AllRefer.com - Otto IV, Holy Roman emperor (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Otto IV 1175?–1218, Holy Roman emperor (1209–15) and German king, son of Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony.
Prompted by the pope and by King Philip II of France, some of the German nobles revolted and elected the Hohenstaufen, Frederick of Sicily (later Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II), as king.
He was brought up at the court of his uncle King Richard I of England, who secured his election (1198) as antiking to Philip of Swabia after the death of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI.
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 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto of Brunswick had been crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Innocent III in 1209; Frederick had been elected king of Germany by a rebellious faction who had the backing of Innocent III in 1211 at the Diet of Nuremberg after Otto had fallen into disfavor with the pope who excommunicated him.
As a result of the decisive military loss at Bouvines Otto had lost the practical means to hold on to kingship and emperorship (to die in 1218).
His empire was frequently at war with the Papal States, so it is not surprising the he was excommunicated - in fact, twice.
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 The genealogical tree of Otto II Holy Roman Emperor (973 - 983)
Otto II (955-983) was emperor from 973 to 983.
Otto was defeated at Cotrone in 982 and left southern Italy.
Otto II tried to extend his power by claiming several provinces in southern Italy.
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 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II of Germany (972- 1024), the fifth and last ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty, succeeded his cousin the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III after the latter's death in 1002.
Henry's election was strongly contested, and it was not until 1014 that he was actually crowned emperor (Pope Benedict VIII didn't recognize Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany until February 14).
He took part in church synods, most notably the Synod of Pavia, and his support of the bishops against the regular clergy helped to ensure their allegiance to the Emperor.
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 Wikinfo Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto I the Great (912 - May 7, 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of Saxony, King of Germany and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Though the term "Holy Roman Empire" was not used for more than 200 years afterwards, Otto is sometimes considered its founder, and is counted as the first in a succession of emperors of various dynasties which ended only in 1806.
Otto began the association between the title of Emperor and the German kingship.)
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 Holy Roman Empire
After another lapse when the Carolingian line died out, the title of emperor, or Holy Roman emperor, was borne by successive dynasties of German kings almost continuously from the mid-10th century until the abolition of the empire.
The Roman title of emperor, which had lapsed in western Europe in the 5th century, was revived in 800 by Pope Leo III and conferred on Charlemagne, king of the Franks.
But its sovereign was usually the German king, and the German lands were always its chief component; after the mid-15th century, it was known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
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 Life - Pope Silvester Ii
When Otto II became Holy Roman Emperor in 983, he appointed Gerbert the abbot of the monastery of Bobbio and also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Gerbert soon returned to Reims.
Otto led two unsuccessful expeditions to regain control of the city, and died on a third in 1002.
Some years later, Otto gave Gerbert leave to go to study at the cathedral school of Reims where he was soon appointed a teacher in the cathedral school by Archbishop Adalbero.
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 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Henry II of Germany (972– 13 July 1024), was the fifth and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty.
Henry was on his way to Rome to save his besieged cousin, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, when the emperor died in January 1002.
Henry is buried in the Cathedral of Bamberg, which also has the tomb of Pope Clement II making the only place both a Pope and Holy Roman Emperor are buried.
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 LEFTFIELD-PSI Spear of Destiny Article
From Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Spear of Destiny is said to have passed into the hands of his son, Otto II (Holy Roman Emperor 973-983), to Otto III (Holy Roman Emperor 983-1002), and finally into the possession of Henry II "the Saint" (Holy Roman Emperor 1002-1024).
Called upon to his duty as Holy Roman Emperor to defend the faith against all enemies, Frederick Barbarossa gathered an army of an estimated 150,000 fighting men, along with a veritable army of auxiliary supporters such as cooks, porters, and armorers, to begin the long march to Palestine through Asia Minor.
The city of Milan, in the Lombardy province, revolted against Frederick and the rule of the Holy Roman Empire in 1158.
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 Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor : Otto II
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor : Otto II Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor : Otto II Otto II (955-983), the third German ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty, succeeded his father Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor in 973, and was succeeded by his son Otto III.
And then we shall find in our own experience that "A God of truth and light and His truth that they may bring us to His holy hill and to His to the Lord, to be displayed because of the truth, and we must.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Emperor Otto I Germany HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL Decendants
Otto invaded Italy with a strong force, entered Rome peaceably, and was crowned Roman Emperor of the West by Joh XII in 962.
He is often regarded as the founder of the Holy Roman Empire.Boldly developing the policies that his father had begun, Otto brought the Middle Kingdom of the Carolingian Lothair I, including Italy, Burgundy, and Lotharingia, under German influence and broke the independence of the duchies.
Otto combined politics deftly with romance: he invaded Italy, married Adelaide, and allowed Berengar to retain his kingdom only as a fief of the German crown (951).
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 Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor - InfoSearchPoint.com
Otto died childless and was succeeded by his cousin, Henry II.
(HRR) Otto III (980- January 23, 1002) was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty.
Otto II's mother, Adelaide of Italy then served as regent until Otto III reached his majority.
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 Otto III
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, son of the emperor Otto II and Theophano, daughter of the eastern emperor Romanus II, was born in July 980, chosen as his father's successor at Verona in June 983 and crowned German king at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 25th of the following December.
On his return to Germany, the emperor learned that Gregory had been driven from Rome, which was again in the power of John Crescentius, patrician of the Romans, and that a new pope, John XVI, had been elected.
The mystic erratic temperament of Otto, alternating between the most magnificent schemes of empire and the lowest depths of self-debasement, was not conducive to the welfare of his dominions, and during his reign the conditions of Germany deteriorated.
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 Otto I
Otto I, surnamed the Great, Holy Roman emperor, eldest son of King Henry I the Fowler by his second wife Matilda, said to be a descendant of the Saxon hero Widukind, was born on the 23rd of November 912.
But as he did not long observe his oath he was deposed at a synod held in St. Peter's, after Otto had compelled the Romans to swear they would elect no pope without the imperial consent; and a nominee of the emperor, who took the name of Pope Leo VIII, was chosen in his stead.
A pestilence drove Otto to Germany in 965, and finding the Romans again in arms on his return in 966, he allowed his soldiers to sack the city, and severely punished the leaders of the rebellion.
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