Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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Otto IV was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218.
Seal of Otto IV
Otto IV and Pope Innocent III shake hands
Statues of Otto IV & Maria of Brabant, old city hall, Braunschweig, c. 1455.
Matilda of England was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180.
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
…Brunswick. He was the only German king of the Welf dynasty. Otto was the third son of Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Duke of Saxony, by his wife Matilda of England. His exact birthplace is not given by any original source. He grew up in England in the care of his maternal grandfather, King Henry II of England…
Matilda depicted at her wedding in the Gospels of Henry the Lion
Coronation of Henry the Lion and Matilda, from the Gospels of Henry the Lion (c. 1188)
Head of a funerary statue of Matilda in Brunswick Cathedral