Salian dynasty
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The Salian dynasty or Salic dynasty was a European royal dynasty in the High Middle Ages. The dynasty provided four kings of Germany, all of whom went on to be crowned Holy Roman emperors.
The crypt of Speyer Cathedral, the Salian emperors' burial place
Pope Gregory V anoints Emperor Otto III (a miniature by an unidentified author, c. 1450).
Speyer Cathedral, the burial place of all Salian Emperors
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
Salian dynasty
…The dynasty provided four kings of Germany (1024–1125), all of whom went on to be crowned Holy Roman emperors (1027–1125). After the death of the last Ottonian emperor in 1024, the Kingdom of Germany and later the entire Holy Roman Empire passed to Conrad II, a Salian. He was followed by three more Salian…
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