Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973
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He turned a fractious patchwork of German duchies into an empire, crushed the Magyar invasions at Lechfeld in 955, and revived the imperial crown in Rome a century and a half after Charlemagne. Otto the Great didn't just inherit a kingdom—he bent it to his will.
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Born in November 912, Otto inherited the kingship of the Germans and the Duchy of Saxony when his father Henry the Fowler died in 936. He immediately set about reducing the duchies—formerly co-equals—to subjects, installing family members in key positions and subjecting the church to royal control. A brief civil war among rebellious dukes tested him early, but his decisive victory over the pagan Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955 cast him as the savior of Christendom and locked down his authority. By 961 he'd conquered Italy; a year later Pope John XII crowned him Holy Roman Emperor in R…
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