Otho I.

Otho I., or OTTO THE GREAT, son of the Emperor Henry I. of Germany, was born in 912, and was, on the death of his father in 936, formally crowned king of the Germans. His reign was one succession of eventful and generally triumphant wars, in the course of which he brought many turbulent tribes under subjection, acquired and maintained almost supreme power in Italy, where he imposed laws with equal success on the kings of Lombardy and the popes at Rome, consolidated the disjointed power of the German emperors, and established Christianity at many different points in the Scandinavian and Slavonic lands, which lay beyond the circuit of his own jurisdiction. He died in 973.