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Personal data Otto I "The Illustrious" (Otto I "The Illustrious") von Sachsen -Ludolf 

• First name Otto I "The Illustrious".
• He was born about 836.
• He died on November 30, 912.
• This information was last updated on January 22, 2012.

Household of Otto I "The Illustrious" (Otto I "The Illustrious") von Sachsen -Ludolf

Child(ren):

1. NN. wife of Wigger I von der Germaramark von Sachsen   

(2) He has/had a relationship with Hedwig von La Marche.

Child(ren):

1. Oda von Sachsen Billung  ± 880-952 

Notes about Otto I "The Illustrious" (Otto I "The Illustrious") von Sachsen -Ludolf

{geni:about_me} Otto I, Duke of Saxony

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Otto I Dux, Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis, Cologne, about 1237
Otto (or Oddo) (c. 851 – 30 November 912), called the Illustrious (der Erlauchte) by later authors, was the Duke of Saxony from 880 to his death. He was the younger son of Duke Liudolf of Saxony and his wife Oda of Billung, and succeeded his brother Bruno as duke after the latter's death in battle in 880. His family, named after his father, is called the Liudolfing, after the accession of his grandson Emperor Otto I also the Ottonian dynasty.

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). In a 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. He was described as magni ducis Oddonis (great duke Otto) by Widukind of Corvey when describing the marriage of his sister, Liutgard, to King Louis.

Otto rarely left Saxony. He was a regional prince and his overlords, Louis the Younger and Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia, with both of whom he was on good terms, rarely interfered in Saxony. In Saxony, Otto was king in practice and he established himself as tributary ruler over the neighbouring Slav tribes, such as the Daleminzi.

According to Widukind of Corvey, Otto was offered the kingship of East Francia after the death of Louis the Child in 911, but did not accept it on account of his advanced age, instead suggesting Conrad of Franconia. The truthfulness of this report is considered doubtful.[1]

Otto's wife was Hathui of Babenberg (Hedwiga, †903), daughter of Henry of Franconia. Otto was and is buried in the church of Gandersheim Abbey. He had two sons, Thankmar and Liudolf, who predeceased him, but his third son Henry succeeded him as duke of Saxony and was later elected king. His daughter Oda married the Carolingian King Zwentibold of Lotharingia.

[edit] Sources
Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991

Otto I 'the Illustrious', Duke of Saxony1,2
M, b. circa 836, d. 30 November 912
Father
Liudolf 'the Great", Duke of Saxony, Count of Eastphalia1 b. 816, d. 12 Mar 866
Mother
Oda of Germany1 b. 805 or 806, d. 17 May 913

Otto I 'the Illustrious', Duke of Saxony was born circa 836. He married Hedwig of Germany, daughter of Henry, Markgraf von der Mark and Ingeltrude of Fruili, in 869.1 Otto I 'the Illustrious', Duke of Saxony died on 30 November 912; Buried at Gandersheim Church.1

Family 1

Child
◦(Miss) of Saxony+3

Family 2
Hedwig of Germany d. 24 Dec 903

Children
◦Oda of Saxony+4,5,6,7 d. a 2 Jul 952
◦Heinrich I 'the Fowler', Holy Roman Emperor+ b. c 876, d. 2 Jul 936

Citations
1.[S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. I/1, Tafel 5.
2.[S1908] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists by F. L. Weis, p. 120.
3.[S13] Worldroots.com.
4.[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Saxony.
5.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. VI, Tafel 129.
6.[S11582] CD-ROM: Nobility of the Holy Roman Empire and Other European Nobility, by GenQuest.
7.[S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. I/2, Tafel 204

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