Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor

King of Germany

Holy Roman Emperor

Events

Date of Birth: the end of 955.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Seibert and by Glocker (p. 281).

Date of Death: 7 December 983.

Place of Death: Rome.

The date and place are given by Seibert, and by Schneidmüller (p. 71). Althoff (p. 373) gives the date.

Place of Burial: Rome, St Peter’s.

The place is given by Seibert and by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Otto I “the Great”, king of Germany, king of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor.

This relationship is given by Seibert, by Hlawitschka, by Schneidmüller (p. 62), by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Glocker (p. 281).

Mother: Adélaïde de Bourgogne.

This relationship is given by Seibert, by Hlawitschka, by Bühler (p. 213), and by Glocker (p. 281).

Spouse: Theophanu. Married 14 April 972 in Rome.

This relationship is given by Seibert, by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Glocker (pp. 158-160). Their marriage certificate exists.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Adelheid (about 973 - 1045), Abbess of Quedlinburg.

Sophie (October 975 - January 1039).

Mathilde (Summer 978 - 4 December 1025) married Ezzo, count palatine in Lotharingia.

Otto III (980 - January 1002), Holy Roman Emperor, married the widow of Crescentius Nomentanus, senator of Rome.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. Ottonen genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Bühler, Heinz. “Richinza von Spietzenberg und ihr Verwandtenkreis” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

Cawley, Charles. “OTTO” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).

Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Claudia Ludwig; Beate Zielke, and Thomas Pratsch. Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften [consulted 2 February 2018]. “Otto”, Personenkennziffer 26212

Schneidmüller, Bernd. “Otto II. (973-983)” in Die Deutschen Herrscher des Mittelalters: Historische Portraits von Heinrich I. bis Maximillian I. (919-1519). (Beck: München, 2003)

Seibert, Hubertus. “Otto II”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1998), S. 660-662 [Onlinefassung].