20 Most Evil People of the 10th Century CE | Otto I of Germany (East Francia)

Key Facts

Other names
Born	November 912
Location	Memleben, Saxony-Anhalt
Bloodline	Ottonian
Married
Children	Otto II
Position	King of Germany (936-983)
Died	May 973 (aged 61)

Source of Facts and Important Announcement

Status	Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification	Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts	Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.

Background

Otto was born the eldest son to Henry the Fowler, archbishop of Mainz and later King of Germany East Francia (919-936) and Matilda of Ringelheim. As Henry has previously had a son in an earlier legitimate marriage (Thankmar, Duke of Saxony), Otto was technically the second son.

In July 936, after the death of his father, Thankmar claimed his right as successor. However, the brothers Otto, Henry and Bruno opposed his claim with Archbishop Bruno refusing to concecrate him. Thankmar appealed to the forces of Dux Francorum Hugh the Great (father of Hugh Capet) and to Catholic Patriarch (Pope) Stephen VII (928-936) to intercede.

While the history surrounding this war of succession is long since buried by fictions and distractions, there is sufficient circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Pope Stephen VII did usher some kind of excommunication order as Catholic Patriarch (Pope) Stephen VII was killed by August/September 936 in suspicious circumstances, just weeks before Thankmar was also assassinated by October 936.

To ensure there would be no dispute concerning his legitimacy, Otto is the first recorded monarch to undertake a formal coronation ceremony--his second-- and one of the most lavish and symbolic in history. He arranged with his brother Bruno -- s Patriarch--to be concecrated at Aachen, the former capital of Charlemagne with the dukes of East Francia as his attendents during the service. The symbolism was unmistakable--Otto and his brothers would seek to form a new version of Catholicism, similar to what the Pippins had done in founding Catholicism two hundred years prior.

However, his early reign was marked by remaining deep division and intrigue between the major noble families, who aligned himself with the Conradine dynasty of Franconia in seeking to overthrow his father. The rebellion was finally put down in 955/956 with all male heir of the Conradine executed for treason--effectively causing the extinction of this noble family.

To both confuse and discredit the English connection, later historians altered the marriage of Otto I to claim he was married twice including his son Liudolf (by first marriage to Eadgyth, the daughter of Edward the Elder, king of England) rebelled against him. It is almost certain that Adelaide of Italy was the wife of his son Otto II, not a second wife to Otto I.

In one of the many confusing elements of history concerning Otto I was his campaigns into Italy. While a convoluted and improbable history has been created to claim that Otto launched his first campaign by the early 950's to "rescue" Queen Adelaide, there is no credible evidence of any Germanic forces landing in Italy until the Great Invasion of 961. The greatest evidence to suggest this being the earliest date into Italy is simply that many of the internal rebellions were not finally eliminated till the middle/late 950's.

The Italian militia were no match for the German army and Otto quickly subdued the land. However, Otto failed to capture Pontifex Maximus John XII (also known as John XI and John XIII) of the Counts of Tusculum, who had run Rome as a giant pagan satanic temple since the end of the 9th Century. His brother Bruno then proclaimed himself Pope Benedict IV--Pontiff over all Catholics.

On February 2, 962, Pope Benedict IV then crowned his brother Otto as the new Emperor with the further edict of the Diploma Ottonianum (later changed to John XII) which "confirmed" the authenticity of the Donation of Pippin concerning the Papal states (and previous Pippin forgeries) but now with the German Emperor being the only true protector of the Papal States--effectively wiping the legitimacy of the original Carolingian Catholic Hierarchy and wedding the future of the Catholic Church to the German Emperor.

In a second historic move, one of the other first acts of Pope Benedict IV was the exhume the body of Formosus and conduct the infamous "Cadaver Synod". The history concerning this even has unfortunately been wholly and deliberately corrupted. The truth and purpose of the synod by Ottonian Pope Benedict IV was simple-- to eliminate any possibility that any other Italian noble families would use the agreement between Guy of Spoleto and pagan satanic high priest Formosus as the basis for laying claim to Emperor and head of the Catholic Church. To hide the political purpose of this bizarre episode, the history concerning the event was completely re-written and made to occur decades earlier than it did.

Similarly, the claim that a Byzantine Emperor (John I Tzimisces) took the extraordinary step to overlook the supreme blasphemy of Otto and his brother in creating a new religion (German Catholicism) against Imperial Christianity, not to mention the highest possible insult of Otto in claiming himself to be "Emperor" and agree to have his niece Theophano marry his son Otto II is utterly ridiculous--a lie only possible from no earlier than the 14th and 15th Centuries onwards.

Otto died in 973 and was buried next to his first wife Edith of Wessex in the Cathedral of Magdeburg.


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