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House of Otto
Country
Duchy of Saxony, Kingdom of Germany, Holy Roman Empire
Founded
9th century: Liudolf, Duke of Saxony
Final ruler
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Titles
Holy Roman Emperor
King of the Romans
King of Germany
Dissolution
1024 (after the death of Emperor Henry II)
Cadet branches
Brunonids
House of Savoy
Depiction of the Ottonian family tree in a 13th-century manuscript of the Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis. The founder of the dynasty Liudolf, Duke of Saxony is at the top center.
The Ottonian dynasty (German: Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman Emperors named Otto, especially its first Emperor Otto I. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem duchy of Saxony. The family itself is also sometimes known as the Liudolfings (Liudolfinger), after its earliest known member Count Liudolf (d. 866) and one of its most common given names. The Ottonian rulers were successors of the Germanic king Conrad I, who was the only Germanic king to rule in East Francia after the Carolingian dynasty and before this dynasty.[1]
The Ottonians are associated with the notable military success that transformed the political situation in contemporary Western Europe: "It was the success of the Ottonians in molding the raw materials bequeathed to them into a formidable military machine that made possible the establishment of Germany as the preeminent kingdom in Europe from the tenth through the mid-thirteenth century." They are also associated with a notable cultural movement (especially new literary traditions) known as the Ottonian Renaissance.[2][3]
After the end of Ottonian rule in 1024, the Salian dynasty went on to occupy the Imperial throne for just over a century, until 1125.
The Ottoniandynasty (German: Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman Emperors named...
This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany (Latin: Regnum Teutonicum), from the division of the Frankish Empire...
Queen of Italy (regina Italiae in Latin and regina d'Italia in Italian) is a title adopted by many spouses of the rulers of the Italian peninsula after...
Italian churchmen and nobles. When the Ottonian court discovered Theophanu was not a scion of the Macedonian dynasty, as had been assumed, Otto I was told...
daughter, Luidgard, in 947. The marriage forged a link between the royal Ottoniandynasty and the Salians. He lost Lotharingia after he joined a revolt against...
different times, became de facto hereditary holders of the title, notably the Ottonians (962–1024) and the Salians (1027–1125). Following the late medieval crisis...
and the Holy Roman Empire. During internal struggles of the ruling Ottoniandynasty, the Bavarian territory was considerably diminished by the separation...
connection between the Ottoniandynasty in the West and the Macedonian dynasty in the East. In order to further his dynastic plans, and in preparation...
Ostrogothic king Theoderic the Great killed Odoacer, and set up a new dynasty of kings of Italy. Ostrogothic rule ended when Italy was reconquered by...
As the first non-Frankish king of East Francia, he established the Ottoniandynasty of kings and emperors, and he is generally considered to be the founder...
especially after the kingship passed from Frankish kings to the Saxon Ottoniandynasty in 919. The king was elected, initially by the rulers of the stem duchies...
accompanied the reigns of the first three Holy Roman Emperors of the Ottonian (or Saxon) dynasty: Otto I (936–973), Otto II (973–983), and Otto III (983–1002)...
III.) Ottonian 25 December 983 21 May 996 21 January 1002 Son of Otto II; Otto by the grace of God King Henry II (Heinrich II. der Heilige) Ottonian 7 June...
German kingdom; rather, it was initially associated with the Carolingian dynasty, and then possessed by several other figures of the 9th and 10th centuries...
of Germany from the eastern part of the Frankish Empire under the Ottoniandynasty in the 10th century, forming the core of the Holy Roman Empire. In...
France. It was named by the art historian Hubert Janitschek after the Ottoniandynasty which ruled Germany and Northern Italy between 919 and 1024 under the...
Riade. Henry died in 936, but his descendants, the Liudolfing (or Ottonian) dynasty, would continue to rule the Eastern kingdom or the Kingdom of Germany...
Capetian dynasty, becoming the Kingdom of France, while East Francia and Lotharingia came under the control of the non-Frankish Ottoniandynasty, becoming...
dynasty in the 8th century. By the late 10th century, the Carolingians themselves had been replaced throughout much of their realm by other dynasties...
OttonianDynasty: women and rule in tenth-century Germany. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-77305-6. Müller-Mertens, Eckhard (1995). "The Ottonians...
were all Queens of Germany, and – from the inception of the Hohenstaufen dynasty – all Queens of the Romans. In addition to the above, the following women...
This is a list of the heads of state of Italy. The first to take the title was Odoacer, a barbarian military leader, in the late 5th century, followed...
was Otto I the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Ottoniandynasty. The Gothic form of the prefix was auda- (as in e.g. Audaþius), the...
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