Emperor Otto I "The Great" Of The HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE^[1]

912 - 973  (60 years)

• Name	Otto I "The Great" Of The HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
  Prefix	Emperor
  Nickname	The Great
  Birth	23 Nov 912	Saxony, Germany
  Gender	Male
  AFN	8HR7-TX
  Titled	Between 936 and 961
  	Titled
  	Duke of Saxony
  Titled	Between 936 and 973
  	Titled
  	King of Germany
  ACCEDED	8 Aug 936
  	ACCEDED
  	Holy Roman Emperor
  Relationship (J,M&L)	Relationship (J,M&L)
  	34th Great-grandparent
  Relationship (J,M&L)	Relationship (J,M&L)
  	36th Great-grandparent
  Titled	951
  	Titled
  	King of Italy
  Titled	Between 961 and 973
  	Titled
  	King of Italy
  Titled	Between 962 and 973
  	Titled
  	Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
  Name	Otto I "Le Grand" Emperor HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
  Name	The Great
  _UID	C8D6252E4C8A457DB344B2E807220375BB20
  Death	7 May 973	Membleben, Saxony, Germany
  Person ID	I9913	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2006

  
  

  Father	Henry I "The Fowler", King Of The Germans,   b. 876, Of Saxony, Germany d. 2 Jul 936, Membleben, Saxony, Germany (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Mathilda Von RINGELHEIM, Countess Of Ringelheim,   b. Abt 878, Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany d. 14 May 968, Membleben, Saxony, Germany (Age ~ 90 years)
  Marriage	909	Wallhausen
  Family ID	F3484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Edith (Edgyth) Princess Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 910, Wessex, England d. 21 Jan 947 (Age ~ 37 years)
  Marriage	930
  Children	1. Duke Liudolf Of SWABIA,   b. Abt 930, Swabia, Bavaria d. 6 Sep 957 (Age ~ 27 years)   2. Imperial Princess Luitgarde HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE,   b. Abt 931, Saxony, Germany d. 18 Nov 953 (Age ~ 22 years)
  Family ID	F4378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Princess Adelheid Of BURGUNDY,   b. 931, Bourgogne, Champagne, France d. 17 Dec 999, Selz, Alsace, France (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	951
  Children	1. Princess Richilde HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE,   b. Abt 952, Saxony, Germany d. Yes, date unknown   2. Emperor Otto II (Rufus) HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE,   b. 955, Saxony, Germany d. 7 Dec 983 (Age 28 years)   3. Princess Matilde HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE,   b. 956, Saxony, Germany d. 6 Nov 999, Quedlinburg, Saxony, Germany (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F4951	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), called Otto the Great (912-973), Holy Roman emperor (962-973), king of Germany (936-973), the son of the German king Henry I. After subduing an uprising of nobles incited by his brother, Otto consolidated his kingdom by granting duchies to faithful relatives and followers. In 951 he marched to Italy to assist Adelaide, the widowed queen of Lombardy, against Berengar II, who had usurped the kingdom. Otto defeated Berengar and married Adelaide, thereby becoming ruler of northern Italy. When he returned to Germany, he again crushed a rebellion of nobles led by his son Liudolf and halted a Hungarian invasion in 955. In 962 he was crowned Holy Roman emperor. In 963 he deposed Pope John XII and had Leo VIII elected in his stead. Otto sought to make the church subordinate to the authority of the empire but assisted in spreading Christianity throughout his domain. He negotiated unsuccessfully with the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas for an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires, but was able to arrange a marriage between his son Otto II and Theophano, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Romanus II.

  
  

• Sources

  [S397] J.K. Loren Dec 8 2003, J. K. Loren.