as duke of Saxony and was later elected king of East Francia. Otto's daughter Oda married the Carolingian King Zwentibold of Lotharingia, son of Emperor...
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Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (German: Otto der Große Italian: Ottone il Grande), or Otto of Saxony (German:...
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Bernard I (c. 950 – 9 February 1011) was the Duke of Saxony between 973 and 1011, the second of the Billung dynasty, a son of Duke Herman and Oda. He extended...
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Saxon leader, supposed progenitor of the Brunonids Oda of Saxony (c. 845 – 874), married to Lothar I, Count of Stade Otto the Illustrious (c. 851 – 912)...
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Oda of Saxony (877 – aft. 952) was a Saxon princess. She was the daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony and Hedwiga of Babenberg. She married King Zwentibold...
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Ottonian dynasty (redirect from House of Liudolfing)
son Otto I. Otto I, Duke of Saxony upon the death of his father in 936, was elected king within a few weeks. He continued the work of unifying all of the...
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Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg (about 1204 – 9 June 1252), a member of the House of Welf, was the first duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 until his death...
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Henry the Fowler (redirect from Henry I, Duke of Saxony)
line of Saxon dukes. His father Otto I of Saxony died in 912 and was succeeded by Henry. The new duke launched a rebellion against the king of East Francia...
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Albert I (German: Albrecht I; c. 1175 – 7 October 1260) was a Duke of Saxony, Angria, and Westphalia; Lord of Nordalbingia; Count of Anhalt; and Prince-elector...
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subdivision of the Welf family's Brunswick-Lüneburg duchy from 1520 until his death. He was the son of Henry I, Duke of Lüneburg, and Margarete of Saxony, the...
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well as Otto I's son from his first wife Eadgyth, the Crown Prince Liudolf, Duke of Swabia. With his older brothers dead, the two-year-old Otto became...
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son of Gerhard I of Metz and Oda of Saxony, a daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony from the family of the Liudolfings, and thus a nephew of King Henry the...
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and his wife Hedwig of Saxony, a sister of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. He was a brother of King Hugh Capet of France. He became duke through his wife Liutgarde...
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marriage with Duke Conrad the Red. She and Conrad became progenitors of the Salian dynasty. Liutgarde was the only daughter of King Otto I of Germany from...
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or 644), mayor of the palace of Austrasia briefly in the mid-7th century Otto I, Duke of Saxony (851–912) the Ottonian dynasty Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor...
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Albert II of Saxony (Wittenberg upon Elbe, ca. 1250 – 25 August 1298, near Aken) was a son of Duke Albert I of Saxony and his third wife Helen of Brunswick...
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Bavaria; Gerberga of Saxony, who married King Louis IV of France in 939; and Archbishop Bruno of Cologne. After her brother Otto I came to power in 936...
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of Gerhard I of Metz and Oda of Saxony, daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony. She founded the Vilich Abbey, northeast of Bonn. She died in 995. Megingoz...
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One year later, Otto's son Henry the Fowler succeeded his father as Duke of Saxony. According to the medieval chronicler Widukind of Corvey, King Conrad...
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was Duchess of Saxony (from about 880 until her death) by her marriage with the Liudolfing duke Otto the Illustrious. She is the mother of King Henry the...
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Margarete of Saxony (1469–1528) had the following children: Anne (1492–??) Elisabeth (1494–1572) m. Charles II, Duke of Guelders (1467–1538) Otto I (1495–1549)...
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until his death. Otto was the only son of Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingia, and Liutgarde of Saxony, daughter of Emperor Otto I. His mother died three...
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Saxony was a daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony and thus a member of the Liudolfings. In 930, Oda married Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, who...
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member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duke of Saxony from 866 until his death in 880. He is rated as an ancestor of the Brunonids, a cadet branch of the Ottonians...
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Saxony or Otto the Illustrious (died 912) Otto I, Count of Chiny (died 987) Otto I, Duke of Carinthia or Otto of Worms (c. 950–1004) Otto I, Duke of Swabia...
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daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony, and Hathui. His second wife (936) was Guthia (Guhtiu), who as a widow became the foundress and first abbess of Gröningen...
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Hermann Billung (redirect from Hermann, Duke of Saxony)
Though never Duke of Saxony himself, while Otto (who was the enthroned duke of Saxony) was in Italy from 961 until 972, Hermann served as Otto's personal...
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of Saxony converted to Catholicism in order to be elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. His descendants (including all Kings of Saxony)...
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Hugh the Great (category Counts of Paris)
Otto the Great, he married Otto's younger sister, Hedwig of Saxony in 937. They were the parents of Hugh Capet. Hedwig's sister, Gerberga of Saxony,...
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Slavs on the eastern boundary of his country. The Emperor Otto I was also for the greater part of his reign Duke of Saxony. He divided the region he had...
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