Otto IV, Haly Roman Emperor

Otto IV
Otto IV
	19t Century impression o Otto IV
Haly Roman Emperor
Ring	1209–1215
Coronation	21 October 1209, Roum
Predecessor	Henry VI
Successor	Frederick II
Keeng o the Romans
Ring	1198–1209
Coronation	12 Julie 1198, Aachen
Predecessor	Henry VI
Successor	Frederick II
Keeng o Italy
Reing	1208–1212
Predecessor	Henry VI
Successor	Henry VII
Keeng o Burgundy
Ring	1208–1215
Predecessor	Philip o Swabia
Successor	Frederick II
Born	1175
Dee'd	19 Mey 1218; Harzburg
Buirial	Brunswick Cathedral
Spouse	Beatrice o Hohenstaufen ; Marie o Brabant
Hoose	Hoose o Welf
Faither	Henry the Lion
Mither	Matilda o Ingland
Releegion	Roman Catholicism

Otto IV o Brunswick (1175 – Mey 19, 1218) wis ane o twa rival kings o the Haly Roman Empire frae 1198 on, sole king frae 1208 on, an emperor frae 1209 on. The anly king o the Welf dynasty, he incurred the wrath o Pape Innocent III an wis excommunicated in 1215.

References

↑ Althou Frederick II wis crouned Keeng o the Romans, Keeng o Sicily, Keeng o Jerusalem an Haly Roman Emperor, he never crouned Keeng o Italy at Pavia, Monza or Milan during his lifetime - see Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages, (1906), pg. 143; 147 and Kington-Oliphant's, History of Frederick the Second, Emperor of the Romans, Vol I, (1862), pg. 195 which speceefically state that the Milanese refused tae croun Frederick wi the Iron Croun. Neither is his coronation as Keeng o Italy mentioned in ony modren soorce, such as Abulafia's, The New Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. V: c. 1198-c. 1300, (1999)

[1] Althou Frederick II wis crouned Keeng o the Romans, Keeng o Sicily, Keeng o Jerusalem an Haly Roman Emperor, he never crouned Keeng o Italy at Pavia, Monza or Milan during his lifetime - see Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages, (1906), pg. 143; 147 and Kington-Oliphant's, History of Frederick the Second, Emperor of the Romans, Vol I, (1862), pg. 195 which speceefically state that the Milanese refused tae croun Frederick wi the Iron Croun. Neither is his coronation as Keeng o Italy mentioned in ony modren soorce, such as Abulafia's, The New Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. V: c. 1198-c. 1300, (1999)

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