Otto I the Great, King of Germany

912 - 973  (60 years)

• Name	Otto I the Great   [1]
  Suffix	King of Germany
  Birth	23 Nov 912
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	7 Aug 936	Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, Germany
  	King of Germany
  	crowned as Otto by the grace of God King (7 August 936-7 May 973)
  Crowned	2 Feb 962
  	Holy Roman Emperor
  	crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 961(2 February 962-7 May 973)
  Death	7 May 973
  Burial	Cathedral of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
  Notes	Acceded: 8 AUG 936 Holy Roman Emperor, Duke of Saxony http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01813 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor Has ancestry chart in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_monarchs
  Person ID	I5126	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Henry I the Fowler, Holy Roman Emperor,   b. Abt 876, Memleben, Saxony d. 2 Jun 936, Memleben, Saxony (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Saint Matilda of Ringelheim,   b. 892   d. 14 Mar 968 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	909
  Family ID	F1588	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eadgyth (Edith),   b. 910   d. 26 Jan 946, Germany (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	929
  Children	1. Liudolf of Swabia, Duke of Swabia,   b. 930   d. 6 Sep 957 (Age 27 years)   2. Liutgard of Saxony   d. 18 Nov 953
  Family ID	F2589	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Adelaide (St.) of Italy, Empress,   b. 931   d. 16 Dec 999, Seltz, Alsace (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	Oct 951
  Children	1. Henry,   b. 952   d. 7 Apr 954 (Age 2 years)   2. Bruno,   b. 953   d. 8 Sep 957 (Age 4 years)   3. Matilda of Quedlinburg, Abbess of Quedlinburg,   b. Abt 954   d. 6 Feb 999 (Age ~ 45 years)   4. Otto II of Saxony, Holy Roman Emperor,   b. 955, Saxony, Germany d. 7 Dec 983 (Age 28 years)   5. William, Archbishop of Mainz   d. 2 Mar 968   6. Richilde von Saxe, Princess of Germany,   b. About 0950   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2087	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Otto I the Great The Magdeburger Reiter: a tinted sandstone equestrian monument, c. 1240, traditionally intended as a portrait of Otto I (detail), Magdeburg
  		The Holy Roman Empire at Otto's death
  		Otto I accepting the surrender of Berengar of Ivrea. Manuscript depiction (c. 1200) of Otto accepting the surrender of Berengar II of Italy. The headline reads Otto I Theutonicorum rex ("Otto the First, King of the Germans")

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).