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Otto I …, 912–973 (aged 60 years)

The Magdeburger Reiter: a tinted sandstone equestrian monument, c. 1240, traditionally intended as a portrait of Otto I (detail), Magdeburg.

A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith.

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Otto I …

Name: Otto I //
Given names: Otto I
Nickname: The Great
Name prefix: Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), King of Germany (936-973), King of Italy (951-973) and Duke of Saxony (936-973)

Sex Male

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Family with parents
father	Links Birth: 876 25 13 — Saxony, Germany Marriage: 909 Death: 2 July 936 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Mathilde (or Matilda) … of Ringelheim Hadwige (Hatwide) … of Saxony Otto I … Gerberga … King of Germany (919-936) and Duke of Saxony (912-936) Henry I … 876–936 Birth: 876 25 13 — Saxony, Germany Death: 2 July 936 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
mother	Links Birth: about 895 23 32 — Enger, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Marriage: 909 Death: 14 March 968 — Quedlinburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse King of Germany (919-936) and Duke of Saxony (912-936) Henry I … Hadwige (Hatwide) … of Saxony Otto I … Gerberga … Mathilde (or Matilda) … of Ringelheim 895–968 Birth: about 895 23 32 — Enger, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Death: 14 March 968 — Quedlinburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Marriage	Marriage — 909 —
1 year elder sister	Links Birth: 909 33 14 — Saxony, Germany Marriage: 938 Death: 10 May 965 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Hugh I … Duke of Franks and Count of Paris Hugh Capet Emma … Hadwige (Hatwide) … of Saxony 909–965 Birth: 909 33 14 — Saxony, Germany Death: 10 May 965
4 years himself	Links Birth: 23 November 912 36 17 — Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Marriage: 951 Death: 7 May 973 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Burial: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Eadgyth … Family with spouse Adelaide … of Italy Otto II … of Saxony Luitgard … Otto I … 912–973 Birth: 23 November 912 36 17 — Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Death: 7 May 973 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
sister	Links Marriage: 939 Death: 5 May 964 Unique identifier: 8EA2C2C44902EE4BB61197B6093D3C2AFA1B Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Louis IV … King of France Lothar … Matilda … of France Charles … Duke of Lower Lorraine Gerberga … …–964 Death: 5 May 964

Family with Eadgyth …
himself	Links Birth: 23 November 912 36 17 — Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Marriage: 951 Death: 7 May 973 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Burial: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Eadgyth … Family with spouse Adelaide … of Italy Otto II … of Saxony Luitgard … Otto I … 912–973 Birth: 23 November 912 36 17 — Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Death: 7 May 973 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
partner	Links Birth: 910 36 Death: 946 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Otto I … Eadgyth … 910–946 Birth: 910 36 Death: 946

Family with Adelaide … of Italy
himself	Links Birth: 23 November 912 36 17 — Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Marriage: 951 Death: 7 May 973 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Burial: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Eadgyth … Family with spouse Adelaide … of Italy Otto II … of Saxony Luitgard … Otto I … 912–973 Birth: 23 November 912 36 17 — Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Death: 7 May 973 — Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
wife	Links Birth: between 931 and 932 — Burgundy, France Marriage: 951 Death: 16 December 999 — Seltz, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Otto I … Otto II … of Saxony Luitgard … Adelaide … of Italy 931–999 Birth: between 931 and 932 — Burgundy, France Death: 16 December 999 — Seltz, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Marriage	Marriage — 951 —
5 years son	Links Birth: 955 42 24 — Saxony, Germany Death: 7 December 983 — Rome, Lazio, Italy Burial: Rome, Lazio, Italy Unique identifier: A1D66826ED121A4E96420B7951BF5C7BAFAD Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Theophanu (Theophania, Theophana or Theophono) … Otto III … Otto II … of Saxony 955–983 Birth: 955 42 24 — Saxony, Germany Death: 7 December 983 — Rome, Lazio, Italy
daughter	Links Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Otho … Luitgard … …–… Death:

Events of close relatives
Birth	23 November 912 36 17 Wallhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Death of a paternal grandfather	Otto I (or Oddo) … Duke of Saxony (880-912) 30 November 912
Death of a maternal grandfather	Theodoric … Count of Ringelheim 8 February 917
Death of a father	King of Germany (919-936) and Duke of Saxony (912-936) Henry I … 2 July 936 Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Death of a wife	Eadgyth … 946
Marriage	Adelaide … of Italy — View this family 951 (aged 38 years)
Birth of a son	Otto II … of Saxony 955 Saxony, Germany
Death of a sister	Gerberga … 5 May 964
Death of a sister	Hadwige (Hatwide) … of Saxony 10 May 965
Death of a mother	Mathilde (or Matilda) … of Ringelheim 14 March 968 Quedlinburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Death	7 May 973 (aged 60 years) Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Burial	Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Address: Magdeburg Cathedral, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Last change	21 December 2022 – 13:21:04 Author of last change: Danny

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Note	Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), called Otto the Great (912-73), Holy Roman emperor (962-73), king of Germany (936-73), 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 (931?-99), against Berengar II (died 966), 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 (died 965) 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 (913?-69) for an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires, but was able to arrange a marriage between his son Otto II and Theophano (955?-91), daughter of the Byzantine emperor Romanus II (939-63).

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Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), called Otto the Great (912-73), Holy Roman
emperor (962-73), king of Germany (936-73), 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 (931?-99), against Berengar II (died 966), 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 (died 965) 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
(913?-69) for an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires,
but was able to arrange a marriage between his son Otto II and Theophano
(955?-91), daughter of the Byzantine emperor Romanus II (939-63).

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Media object	The Magdeburger Reiter: a tinted sandstone equestrian monument, c. 1240, traditionally intended as a portrait of Otto I (detail), Magdeburg.
Media object	A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith.