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    Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great (German: Otto der Große Italian: Ottone il Grande) or Otto of Saxony (German: Otto von Sachsen...
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    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...
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    Seeking an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto the Great, he married Otto's younger sister, Hedwig of Saxony in 937. They were the parents of Hugh Capet...
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  • Ottonian dynasty (category Noble families of the Holy Roman Empire)
    emperors, especially Otto the Great. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem duchy of Saxony. The family itself is...
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    including the Quedlinburg Abbey where Henry and Matilda are buried. She was later canonized. His son Otto I, traditionally known as Otto the Great, continued...
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    Dobrynya (highly doubtful is the fact of her being Anna's offspring)[citation needed] a granddaughter of Otto the Great (possibly Rechlinda Otona [Regelindis])...
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    Otto I, also called Otto the Great, is seen by many as one of the greatest medieval rulers. His name is usually associated with the foundation (or consolidation...
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    Otto (c. 830/835/51 – 30 November 912), called the Illustrious (German: Otto der Erlauchte) by later authors, was a notable member of the Ottonian dynasty...
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    with the three Great Powers that had guaranteed Greece's independence, Britain, France and Russia, and Otto's ability to maintain the support of the powers...
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    924 and the coronation of Otto the Great in 962 is taken as marking the transition from the Frankish Empire to the Holy Roman Empire. Under the Ottonians...
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    Barry Otto (born 1941) is an Australian actor. Barry Otto was born in 1941 in Brisbane, the son of a butcher. He has a sister named Denise. Otto trained...
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    Hugh Capet (category Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis)
    and was also a nephew of Otto the Great. The dynasty he founded ruled France for nearly nine centuries: from 987 to 1328 in the senior line, and until 1848...
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    of Carinthia (887–899) Louis the Child (900–911) Conrad I of Germany (911–918) Henry the Fowler (919–936) Otto the Great (936–973) List of Frankish kings...
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    crucifixion.: 27, 46 n.81  Along the same lines, it may be telling that Henry's son Otto the Great fought the Battle of Birten in the first half of March 939.: 27–28 ...
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  • This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg...
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    Empress by marriage to Emperor Otto the Great. She was crowned with him by Pope John XII in Rome on 2 February 962. She was the first empress designated consors...
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  • William (archbishop of Mainz) (category Children of Otto the Great)
    was the son of the Emperor Otto I the Great and a Wendish mother. On 17 December 954, he was appointed to the archbishopric of Mainz following the death...
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    the imperial title was held sporadically by a series of non-dynastic Italian rulers before it lapsed in 924. The East Frankish king Otto the Great conquered...
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    which evolved during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great. The style was found in Germany and lasted from the mid 10th century until the mid 11th century....
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    Otto the Great for help. It is on Mount Saraceno, where they were strongly entrenched for years, that the Saracens were defeated and driven from the place...
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    the Kingdom of Germany. After the death of the margrave Gero the Great in 965, the vast collection of marches (a "super-march") was divided by Otto into...
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    Matilda of Ringelheim (category Christian female saints of the Middle Ages)
    Her husband, Henry the Fowler, was the first king from the Ottonian dynasty, and their eldest son, Otto the Great, restored the Holy Roman Empire in...
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  • to the following people: Saint Adelheid or Adelaide of Italy, (931–999), Holy Roman Empress and second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great Eupraxia...
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    middle of the 10th century, when the Saxon dukes of the House of Liudolfing had also become German kings, King Otto the Great entrusted more and more of his...
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  • Widukind of Corvey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    first East Frankish king of the Saxon ducal Ottonian dynasty had died and was succeeded by his son Otto the Great. Otto's rise as undisputed ruler of...
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    Liutgard of Saxony (died 953) (category Children of Otto the Great)
    Red. She and Conrad became progenitors of the Salian dynasty. Liutgarde was the only daughter of King Otto I of Germany from his first marriage with Edith...
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    which the Kingdom of Germany, led by King Otto I the Great, annihilated the Hungarian army led by Harka Bulcsú and the chieftains Lél and Súr. With the German...
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    Eadgyth (category Otto the Great)
    member of the House of Wessex, was a German queen from 936, by her marriage to King Otto I. Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward the Elder by...
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    established in 962 under Otto the Great. Later emperors were crowned by the pope or other Catholic bishops. In 1530 Charles V became the last Holy Roman emperor...
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  • Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (category Children of Otto the Great)
    was the only son of the Saxon duke Otto the Great, son and heir of the German king Henry the Fowler, by his first wife Eadgyth, daughter of the English...
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