House
Ottonian dynasty
Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024)
- Also called Saxon dynasty, Liudolfings, Liudolfinger
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 19
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
6 children in the house
- Thankmar 908 CE – 938 CE
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Otto I the Great 912 CE – 973 CE 3 children in the house
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Gerberga of Saxony 913 CE – between 969 and 984 CE -
Henry I c. 920 CE – 955 CE 1 child in the house
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Hedwig of Saxony 922 CE – 965 CE -
Bruno the Great 925 CE – 965 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Henry I the Fowlerc. 876 CE – 2 July 936 CE · King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936) - Thankmar908 CE – 28 July 938 CE · Child of Henry I the Fowler
- Otto I the Great23 November 912 CE – 7 May 973 CE · Child of Henry I the Fowler
- Gerberga of Saxony913 CE – between 969 and 984 CE · Child of Henry I the Fowler
- Henry Ic. 920 CE – 1 November 955 CE · Child of Henry I the Fowler
- Hedwig of Saxony922 CE – 10 May 965 CE · Child of Henry I the Fowler
- Bruno the Great925 CE – 11 October 965 CE · Child of Henry I the Fowler
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Liudolf, Duke of Swabia930 CE – 6 September 957 CE · Child of Otto I the Great -
Mathilda of Essen949 CE – 5 November 1011 CE · Child of Liudolf, Duke of Swabia -
Henry II, Duke of Bavariac. 951 CE – 28 August 995 CE · Child of Henry I - Otto I, Duke of Swabia and Bavaria954 CE – 31 October 982 CE · Child of Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
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Otto II955 CE – 7 December 983 CE · Child of Otto I the Great - Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg955 CE – 999 CE · Child of Otto I the Great
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Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor6 May 973 CE – 13 July 1024 CE · Child of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria -
Adelaide I973 CE – 14 January 1044 CE · Child of Otto II - Sophia I975 CE – 30 January 1039 CE · Child of Otto II
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Matilda of Germany, Countess Palatine of Lotharingia979 CE – 4 November 1025 CE · Child of Otto II -
Otto III980 CE – 24 January 1002 CE · Child of Otto II
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Duke of Bavaria
- 4 holders
- 1 gap
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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948 CE – 955 CE Henry I 921–955, Duke of Bavaria -
Gap about 40 years before the next in this house
995 CE – 1004 CE Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to 1024
No dates recorded 2
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Dates unrecorded Henry II, Duke of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria (951–995) -
Dates unrecorded Otto I, Duke of Swabia and Bavaria Duke of swabia and Bavaria
Holy Roman Emperor
- 4 holders
- 2 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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2 February 962 CE – 7 May 973 CE Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973 -
7 May 973 CE – 7 December 983 CE Otto II Holy Roman Emperor from 973 to 983 and King of Italy from 980 to 983 -
Gap about 13 years before the next in this house
21 May 996 CE – 23 January 1002 CE Otto III Holy Roman Emperor from 996 to 1002 -
Gap about 12 years before the next in this house
14 February 1014 CE – 13 July 1024 CE Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to 1024
Abbess
- 2 holders
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 2
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Dates unrecorded Gisela of Hungary German princess, Hungarian queen consort and Roman Catholic blessed - Dates unrecorded Mathilda of Essen abbess of Essen Abbey from 973 to her death
Abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey
- 2 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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999 CE – 14 January 1044 CE Adelaide I 11th-century Princess-abbess of Quedlinburg
No dates recorded 1
- Dates unrecorded Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg German Abbess
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Ottonian dynasty connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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