Examples of Otto I in the following topics:
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- The formation of the Holy Roman Empire was initiated by Charlemagne's coronation as "Emperor of the Romans" in 800, and consolidated by Otto I when he was crowned emperor in 962 by Pope John XII.
- Some historians refer to the coronation of Charlemagne as the origin of the empire, while others prefer the coronation of Otto I as its beginning.
- The last such emperor was Berengar I of Italy, who died in 924.
- Upon Henry's death, Otto I, his son and designated successor, was elected King in Aachen in 936.
- Replica of the Magdeburger Reiter, equestrian monument traditionally regarded as portrait of Otto I (Magdeburg, original c. 1240).
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- A second "renaissance" occurred during the reign of Otto I, King of the Saxons from 936–973 and Holy Roman Emperor from 952.
- Otto was successful in unifying his kingdom and asserting his right to appoint bishops and archbishops throughout the kingdom.
- Otto's assumption of this ecclesiastical power brought him into close contact with the best-educated and ablest class of men in his kingdom.
- Thus, Otto's reign has also been called a "renaissance."
- Other works were more clearly pure history, such as Otto von Freising's (d. 1158) Gesta Friderici Imperatoris, detailing the deeds of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, or William of Malmesbury's (d. c. 1143) Gesta Regum, on the kings of England.
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- The title was revived when Otto I was crowned emperor in 962, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne.
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- A brief but significant struggle over investiture also occurred between Henry I of England and Pope Paschal II in the years 1103–1107, and the issue also played a minor role in the struggles between church and state in France.
- Since Otto I (936-972) the bishops had been princes of the empire, had secured many privileges, and had become to a great extent feudal lords over great districts of the imperial territory.
- The crisis began when a group within the church, members of the Gregorian Reform, decided to rebel against the rule of simony by forcefully taking the power of investiture from the ruling secular power, i.e., the Holy Roman Emperor, and placing that power wholly within control of the church.
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- After the reign of Otto I, the centralized power of the emperor began to fade and local rulers, as well as the Catholic Church, gained more and more power in relation to the emperor.
- The Hohenstaufen dynasty, which started in 1125, and especially Emperor Frederick I, represented both a final attempt at unified power and the beginning of the dissolution of that power.
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- Conrad took the knights and the best troops with him to march overland and sent the camp followers with Otto of Freising to follow the coastal road.
- They followed Otto of Freising's route, moving closer to the Mediterranean coast, and they arrived at Ephesus in December, where they learned that the Turks were preparing to attack them.
- They reached Laodicea on the Lycus early in January 1148, around the same time Otto of Freising's army had been destroyed in the same area.
- The defenders had sought help from Saif ad-Din Ghazi I of Mosul and Nur ad-Din of Aleppo, who personally led an attack on the Crusader camp.
- Louis and other French leaders openly accused Emperor Manuel I of colluding with Turkish attackers during the march across Asia Minor.
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- The discovery of nuclear fission by German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938, and its theoretical explanation by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, made the development of an atomic bomb a theoretical possibility.
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- Believing that Britain was soon about to declare the whole area a protectorate, the German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck claimed it in 1884, thereby establishing German South-West Africa as a colony.