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About Saint Otto
Otto, son of King Henry I and his wife Mathilde, married 929 * position as Editha, the daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Elder King and half Æthelstans. My ancestor was Oswald, who once in the fight against the pagans and was revered throughout Europe, and her grandfather, Alfred (Ælfred) was whether his victory over the Vikings long ago "the Great" referred to. Editha gave the new Saxon royal court with the necessary prestige. The Morgengabe Magdeburg, an important trading stations in the Western East, built Otto mission into a major base for the conquest of territories and their Slavic Christianity from. 936 Otto was elected to the king. His reign was marked by numerous fights with his half-brother Thankmar and his younger brother Henry, whose claim the throne in several insurgency movements wanted to defend. Even with the nobility and the Dukes, so those of Franconia, Bavaria and Lorraine, there were conflicts, because Otto in connection with the Carolingian reign practice was anxious that the position of the king again more to make. Almost half of his reign was filled with the painstaking attempts to transform the relations of power and domination in the kingdom to be clarified. Ab followed by the 938 quelling the insurgency and a realignment in the kingdom by filling key positions with loyal family members.
Otto (left) hands over the throne of Christ in the presence of Peter (right) and other saints Magdeburger Cathedral, Milan (?) 962 - 968, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Support for his reign was Otto Reich now strengthens the church. Through generous facilities of the Church of goods and sovereign rights, he created the precondition for the "Empire Service" of the bishops and abbots, the expansion of the orchestra, he offered special care. As a loyal bishop, he continued his youngest brother Brun as archbishop of Cologne. The 927-born son Wilhelm Otto made archbishop of Mainz. 937 he founded the Benedictine monastery consecrated Mauritius in Magdeburg.
946 died after 17-year-old married woman Ottos Editha. She had the somewhat coarse husband cultivated and love him clemency and refined, to monasteries and the poor care. After her early death, many legends portray the Queen miracles in the nation long regarded as "sacred Edith" on. "Your noble traits shines in magnificent beauty," boasted of Roswitha Gandersheim. "Thanks to their perfect system and change it was in their own country so blessed that after einmüt'gen verdict of the people she was regarded as the greatest among all women."
953 there was an uprising of the first son Liudolf to the question of succession back to serious conflicts, the rapid access to up to Saxony radiated and only with the 954 back Ungar No cases came to a halt.
The Holy Lance, 8 Century, in the treasury in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The oldest of the imperial Roman-German kings and emperors, allegedly contains a piece of the nail from the cross of Christ. According to legend, they belonged to the captain of Mauritius, according to other sources, the captain Longinus.
At the request of the widow of Longobards, Adelheid, Otto occupied with 951 Upper Italy Pavia, Adelheid freed from captivity in Berengar II of Ivrea and married her. The attempt to include the coronation of the emperor in Rome to reach, was thwarted by the power relations in Rome. 955 Otto suggested, with the support of Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg in the Lechfeld the scathingly attacking Hungary with the power of the united German tribes, which he had the "holy lance", in which at least one nail tip of the cross of Jesus Christ had appeared to be led. Ottos trailer it to be spot on "magnus imperator" was proclaimed, for "great commander and commander." Two months later, the Slavs in defeated Recknitz: Otto was now indisputably more powerful than all the other princes in Europe, and as a savior of Christianity. Even before the battle Hungary had the Tagesheilien Otto Laurentius the foundation of a bishopric in Merseburg praise after the victory over Hungary was the way to proselytizing and domination in the East paved.
Buchmalerei: Otto's win over Berengar II, around 1200, Manuscriptum Mediolanense
961 Ottos second followed by Italy campaign, as Pope John XII. against Berengar II for protection sought after, so after the rule in Italy was assured, was the imperial coronation 962 by Pope John XII. in Rome and in return confirmed Otto possessions and rights of the Roman Church. He now led the title "Christ" - the title used his auhc his Roman-German Emperor's followers, the popes took him from the twelfth century. The anointing as part of the coronation ceremony highlighted the sacred, priestly character of the Empire. Securing the rule adopted in Italy in petrol so that he had only 965 returned to Germany.
Otto Reich
A cry for help from Pope John XIII., From the Byzantines in the South saw a threat, was the occasion for Ottos Italienzug third, the 966-972 lasted. It is a revised edition of a rivalry of the two emperors and problem, whose resolution is Otto tried in vain. Demonstratively he therefore at Christmas 967 his son Otto II to the Byzantine model Mitkaiser crown, as a gesture of reconciliation was also the marriage of the heir to the throne of the Byzantine princess Theophanu. With the support of Pope John XIII. Otto now succeeded in achieving its mission under the plan in Slavic areas. 967 was at a synod of Ravenna in the founding of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg decided that the next Brandenburg an der Havel and Havelberg also to secure the eastern borders erected dioceses Merseburg, Meissen, and Zeitz - 1028 moved to Naumburg - have been assigned. Magdeburg became the capital, also called Rome of the East was.
Otto's goal was the creation of the Holy Roman Empire, a Europe under the sign of the cross. Mission and colonization went hand in hand. He mortgaged the bishops to assist with this task actively supported, with great possessions, called by them but also have higher taxes and more soldiers for the imperial army as secular dukes. Thus he helped the church to economic and military power and tied it into the fabric of state On.
The imperial family pays homage to Christ. Top right and left each of Angels, including the left and the right Mauritius Maria; feet of Christ to the rulers pair with his son, Otto left, kisses the feet of Christ. Ivory panel, Milan (?) To 965/983, in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan
With the return from Italy 972 Otto had the power reaches its climax. A 973, shortly before his death, held in Quedlinburg Hoftag praised the Emperor as head of the world, "honored by envoys from nearly all parts of the then known world. Its the act of anointing was founded kingdom a model of the Christian monarchies of the Middle Ages. Due to the renewal of the Western Empire, which now with the German kingship remained connected, occupied him Bishop Otto of Freising with the nickname "the Great".
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