Otto of Saxony I the Illustrious

• Preferred Name: Otto of Saxony I the Illustrious^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: L4HF-2RY
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Duke of Saxony
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count in Derlin(g)gau
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count in Südthüringgau
  
• Death: 30 NOV 912 in Saxony, Germany
  
• Birth: 23 NOV 836 in Saxony, Germany
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count in Eichsfeld
  
• Burial: 912 in Church of Gandersheim Abbey, Bad Gandersheim, Niedersachsen, Germany at LATI: N1.8366 LONG: E0.0227 with note: He was buried in the church of Gandersheim Abbey.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I._(Sachsen)
  
  Wikipedia - Otto I, Duke of Saxony
  Family
  Otto was a younger son of the Saxon count Liudolf (d. 866), the progenitor of the dynasty, and his wife Oda (d. 913), daughter of the Saxon princeps Billung. Among his siblings were his elder brother Bruno, heir to their father's estates, and Liutgard, who in 876 became Queen of East Francia as consort of the Carolingian king Louis the Younger. The marriage expressed Liudolf's dominant position in the Saxon lands.
  
  Around 873 Otto himself married Hathui (d. 903), probably daughter of the Frankish princeps militiae Henry of Franconia, a member of the noble House of Babenberg (Popponids). By her he had two sons, Thankmar and Liudolf, who predeceased him, but his third son Henry the Fowler succeeded him as duke of Saxony and was later elected king. Otto's daughter Oda married the Carolingian King Zwentibold of Lotharingia, son of Emperor Arnulf. His family is called the Liudolfinger after his father, upon the accession of his grandson Emperor Otto the Great it then was also called the Ottonian dynasty.
  
  Reign
  By a charter of King Louis the Younger to Gandersheim Abbey dated 26 January 877, the pago Suththuringa (region of South Thuringia) is described as in comitatu Ottonis (in Otto's county). He succeeded his brother Bruno after the latter's death in the Battle of Lüneburg Heath (Ebsdorf) on 2 February 880, fighting against the Viking invaders.[1]
  
  Ruling over vast Saxon and Thuringian estates, Otto was mentioned as dux in later sources, while in a contemporary charter of 28 January 897, Otto is described as marchio and the pago Eichesfelden (Eichsfeld) is now found to be within his county (march). He was also the lay abbot of Hersfeld Abbey in 908 and fifty years later was described as magni ducis Oddonis (great duke Otto) by the chronicler Widukind of Corvey when describing the marriage of his sister Liutgard to King Louis.
  
  Despite his dynastic relations, Otto only had loose connections to the Carolingian court and rarely left Saxony. He remained a regional East Frankish prince and his overlords, Louis the Younger and Emperor Arnulf, with both of whom he was on good terms, rarely interfered in Saxon autonomy. In his lands, Otto was prince in practice and he also established himself as a tributary ruler over the neighbouring Slavic tribes in the east, such as the Daleminzi.
  
  According to Widukind of Corvey, the "Saxon and Franconian people" offered Otto the kingship of East Francia after the death of the last Carolingian monarch Louis the Child in 911. He did, however, not accept it on account of his advanced age, instead suggesting Duke Conrad of Franconia. The truthfulness of this report is considered doubtful.[2]
  
  The next year, Otto died at the Pfalz of Wallhausen. He was buried in the church of Gandersheim Abbey.
  
  Notes
  A Companion to Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (fl. 960): Contextual and Interpretive Approaches, ed. Phyllis R. Brown and Stephen L. Wailes, (Brill, 2013), 229.
  Reuter, 135; "calls it "panegyric rather than history."
  Sources
  A Companion to Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (fl. 960): Contextual and Interpretive Approaches, ed. Phyllis R. Brown and Stephen L. Wailes, Brill, 2013.
  Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991.
  
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I._(Sachsen)
  
  === notes from paf record ===
  IGI
  
  Ancestral File AFN: 8HR7-N3
  
  === aka Otton, Dux de Saxe; Otton le Grand; ===
  aka Otton, Dux de Saxe; Otton le Grand; Otto "The Illustrious"
  
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  === "Otto, a member of the Ottonian dynasty, ===
  "Otto, a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duke of Saxony from 880 to his death."
  
  "Otto was a younger son of the Saxon count Liudolf, the progenitor of the dynasty, and his wife Oda."
  
  "Around 873, Otto married Hedwiga, *probably* a member of the noble House of Babenberg and daughter of the Frankish princeps militiae Henry of Franconia. By her he had two sons, Thankmar and Liudolf, who predeceased him, but his third son Henry the Fowler succeeded him as duke of Saxony and was later elected king."
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I,_Duke_of_Saxony
  
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• m. aproximadamente 0871 in Prussia, German Empire

1. Oda von Sachsen, b. 884 in Sachsen, Germany     d. 2 de julho de 0952 in Lothringen, Heiliges Römisches Reich
2. Thietmar Von Merseburg I, b. 872 in Merseburg, Saale, Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland     d. 1 JUN 932 in Thuringia, Germany
3. Irminburg Kotechind von Sachsen, b. 895 in Schwaben, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Deutschland     d. 10 JAN 937 in Merseburg, Saalekreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland
4. Liudolf von Sachsen I, b. 876 in Pfalz Memleben, Ostfranken, Ostfrankenreich     d. vor 0912
5. Heinrich von Sachsen I the Fowler, b. 7 JUL 876 in Memleben, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany     d. 2 JUL 936 in Memleben, Eckartsberga, Saxony, Germany

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5. Title: Otto I of Saxony, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-TY9H : 24 February 2022), the Illustrious, ; Burial, Bad Gandersheim, Landkreis Northeim, Lower Saxony Niedersachsen, Germany, Stiftskirche Gandersheim; citing record ID 35908723, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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