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
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
Henry II, also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024 and was the last ruler of the Ottonian line. As Duke of Bavaria, appointed in 995, He
Ottonian dynasty
…Otto III, king of Germany from 983, emperor from 996 until 1002 Henry II, the Saint, duke of Bavaria from 995, king of Germany from 1002, king of Italy from 1004, emperor from 1002 until 1024 Although never emperor, Henry…
Henry II as depicted in the Regensburg Sacramentary
St. Henry and Cunigunde, as depicted in 15th century
12th-century stained glass depiction of Henry II, Strasbourg Cathedral
Emperor Henry II, from the Manuscript of St. Gregory's Moralia in Job, Bamberg State Library