Otto I 'The_Great' Germany

b 0912, , , , Germany			Bruno
d 07 May 0973,		Ludolph, Duke Of Saxony
	Otto Duke Of Saxony	b 0826	Billung
	\| b 0851	Hedwige Duchess Of Saxony
Heinrich I 'The_Fowler' Germans, [Duke of Saxony]	d 30 Nov 0912	b 0826	Carloman
\|b 0875	\|	Arnuph I	Litwinde
\|d 02 Jul 0936	Hedwige, Empress Of Holy_Roman_Empir	b 0820	Theodore
\|	b 0856	Oda
Otto I 'The_Great' Germany	d 0903	b 0820	Wolpert Von Ringleheim
\|Adelheid, Empress Of Germany-2 +		Reginhart, Count Of Ringleheim	Alburgis Von Ringleheim
\|m 0930	Theodoric, Count Of Ringleheim	b 0828
\|	\|b 0853	Mrs-Reginhart, Countess Of Ringleheim
Mathilda Countess Of Ringleheim		b 0833
b 0878	\|	Gottfried
d 14 May 0968	Ludmilla Ragnhildis, Countess Ringleheim	b 0820
	b 0858	Matilda
		b 0820

Children

1	<	Otto II (Rufus), Germany, Emperor
2	<	Richilde Princess Of Germany

Notes

Otto I The Great King Of Germany was the first king to become Holy Roman Emperor. He became King of Germany in 936 and ruled all of Germany. In 951, he crossed the Alps and declared himself the king of Italy. He was forced to return to Germany when the other German princes began a series of revolts. At the same time the Slavs in Poland and Bohemia revolted, and the Magyars, or Hungarians, invaded Germany. Otto crushed the Magyars in the battle of the Lech River in 955. The Poles and Bohemians were forced to accept his rule. Otto was able to replace most of the rebellious German princes with members of his own family. The young king of Arles, or Burgundy, also had to accept his rule. Otto then turned his attention toward Italy. He married the widow of an earlier Italian king, and defeated a rival for the throne. In 961, Otto crossed the Alps in answer to an appeal from Pope John XII to put down an uprising in Rome. For this service, Otto was crowned in 962 emperor of what was later known as the Holy Roman Empire.

Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p G150, O667.

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