Otto "the Great" of Saxony Holy Roman Emperor

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 45:17, 147:19, 192:20, Otto I, the Great, married Edith, daughter of Edward "the Elder" and Ælfreda, daughter of Ethelhelm, Lord of Meopham. Otto I, the Great, married, as his second wife, Adelaide of Burgundy, daughter of Rudlph II, King of Burgundy, and widow of Lothair of Italy. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Web Reference: Charles Crawley's Medieval Lands, Otto I.
Otto I married, as his first wife, Eadgyth of Wessex, daughter of Edward "the elder" King of Wessex and his second wife, Ælfleda. They had two children:

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia who married Ida and had two children Mathilde and Otto, Duke of Bavaria.
Liutgard who married Konrad, "der Rote" Graf in Franconia, Duke of Lotharinga, son of Werner.

Otto married, as his second wife, Adelais of Burgundy, widow of Lothar, King of Italy and daughter of Rudolf II, King of Burgundy and his wife Bertha of Swabia. They had five children, including Otto II, King of Germany and Holy roman Emperor.

Otto married Adélaide de Bourgogne, daughter of Rudolf II de Bourgogne Re di Italy and Berta of Swabia, in Oct 951. (Adélaide de Bourgogne was born in 931-932 in Bourgogne ¹⁶⁰ and died on 16 Dec 999 in Seltz, Alsace ¹⁶⁰.)

Otto next married Eadgyth of England, daughter of Edward I "The Elder" of Wessex King of England and Ælflaeda Queen of England.¹⁹¹ (Eadgyth of England was born about 910, died on 26 Jan 946 in Germany ⁴⁷⁰ and was buried in St Maurice Cathedral, Magdeburg, Germany ⁴⁷⁰.)