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Otto was named co-regent king of Italy and Germany with his father Otto I in 961 and became co-emperor in 967. He married Theophanu, daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor Romanus II, on April 14, 972. Upon his father's death in 973, he was accepted as Holy Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Empire ( German: Heiliges Romisches Reich was a political conglomeration of lands in western and central Europe in the Middle Ages. Emerging from the eastern part of the Frankish realm after its division in the Treaty of Verdun ( 843), it l without opposition.

Otto spent his reign continuing his father's policy of strengthening imperial rule in Germany and extending it deeper into Italy. Henry IIHenry II the Wrangler, Duke of Bavaria (951-995) was the son of Henry I the Quarrelsome and Judith of Bavaria. He married Gisela of Burgundy. Their daughter Giselle of Bavaria married Saint Stephen I of Hungary. Dukes of Bavaria. of BavariaWith an area of 70,553 km² and 11. 6 million inhabitants, the Free State of Bavaria ( German Bayern or Freistaat Bayern forms the southernmost of the 16 Bundeslander of Germany. Its capital is Munich. Geography Bavaria shares international borders with Au revolted in 974Events Antipope Boniface VII succeeds Pope Benedict VI. The Byzantine Empire retakes Syria including Aleppo from the Abbasids. Al-Ta'i succeeds Al-Muti as Abbasid caliph of Baghdad. Fuzhou builds new city walls. An abbey is founded at the site of Moncheng and was not pacified until 978Events Badia Fiorentina, an abbey in Florence, Italy, is founded by Willa, Margravine of Tuscany. Ethelred II becomes king of England at age 10, following the assassination of his half-brother King Edward the Martyer. Births Princess Zoe of Byzantium, lat. The next year, Otto received the submission of both BohemiaBohemia Cechy in Czech, Bohmen in German) is an historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. With an area of 52,750 sq. 25 million of the country's 10. 3 million inabitants, Bohemia is bounded by Germ and PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t. Also in that year, LothairLothair ( 941- 986), king of France, son of Louis IV, succeeded his father in 954, and was at first under the guardianship of Hugh the Great, duke of the Franks, and then under that of his maternal uncle Bruno, archbishop of Cologne. The beginning of his, king of France, invaded Lorraine, which Otto renounced his claim to in 980. With Germany secure, Otto invaded Italy that year, but was repulsed by the Arabs in 982. The next summer, he called a diet at Verona to confirm his son, Otto III, as king of Germany. He died later that year while campaigning against Venice. While he was in Italy, a Slavic invasion pushed the Germans west of the Elbe, but the realm was fairly strong at his death.