Conrad I of Germany
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Conrad I, called the Younger, was the king of East Francia from 911 to 918. He was the first king not of the Carolingian dynasty, the first to be elected by the nobility and the first to be anointed.
Conrad's seal
King Conrad, from the Codex Eberhardi, c. 1150
Ottonian dynasty
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The Ottonian dynasty was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs, named after three of its kings and Holy Roman emperors, especially Otto the Great. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's
Conrad I of Germany
…939 at the Battle of Andernach during his rebellion against emperor Otto I. Hereafter the duchy of Franconia became a direct Imperial possession of the Ottonian dynasty until 1024…
Depiction of the Ottonian family tree in a 13th-century manuscript of the Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis. Liudolf, the founder of the dynasty, is at the top center.
Former collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, founded in 936 by King Otto I, at the request of his mother Queen Matilda, in honor of her late husband, Otto's father, King Henry the Fowler, and as his memorial
Detail from the monument to Emperor Henry II, built over his tomb in Bamberg Cathedral more than 350 years after his death