Family of Otto I (V) + and Agnes + of LOOZ AND RIENECK

Husband:	Otto I (V) + (1117-1183)
Wife:	Agnes + of LOOZ AND RIENECK (1146-1191)
Children:	Richardis + (1162-1231)
	Louis I (1173-1231)

Husband: Otto I (V) +

Wife: Agnes + of LOOZ AND RIENECK

Name:	Agnes + of LOOZ AND RIENECK
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1146	Kelheim, Niederbayern, Bavaria
Death	26 Mar 1191 (age 44-45)

Child 1: Richardis +

Child 2: Louis I

Name:	Louis I
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Ludmilla of BOHEMIA (1170-1240)
Birth	23 Dec 1173
Death	15 Sep 1231 (age 57)	Kelheim, Niederbayern, Bavaria
	Cause: murdered on a Bridge in Kelheim
Burial		Scheyern Abbey

Note on Husband: Otto I (V) +

In the early 960s, Italy was again in political turmoil, and when Berengar occupied the northern Papal States, Pope John XII asked Otto for assistance. Otto returned to Italy and on 2 February 962, the pope crowned him emperor. See Translatio imperii. Ten days later, the pope and emperor ratified the Diploma Ottonianum, under which the emperor became the guarantor of the independence of the papal states. This was the first effective guarantee of such protection since the Carolingian Empire.

 

After Otto left Rome and reconquered the Papal States from Berengar, however, John became fearful of the emperor's power and sent envoys to the Magyars and the Byzantine Empire to form a league against Otto. In November 963, Otto returned to Rome and convened a synod of bishops that deposed John and crowned Leo VIII, at that time a layman, as pope.

 

When the emperor left Rome, however, civil war broke out in the city between supporters of the emperor and of John. John returned to power amidst great bloodshed and excommunicated those who had deposed him, forcing Otto to return to Rome a third time in July 964 to depose Pope Benedict V (John having died two months earlier). On this occasion, Otto extracted from the citizens of Rome a promise not to elect a pope without imperial approval.

 

Otto unsuccessfully campaigned in southern Italy on several occasions from 966 to 972. In 967, he gave the duchy of Spoleto to Pandulf Ironhead, prince of Benevento and Capua, a powerful ally in the Mezzogiorno. In the next year (968) Otto left the siege of Bari in the charge of Pandulf, but the allied duke was captured in the battle of Bovino by the Byzantines. In 972, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimisces recognized Otto's imperial title and agreed to a marriage between Otto's son and heir Otto II and his niece Theophanu. Pandulf was released from captivity.

 

After his death in 973 he was buried next to his first wife Edith of Wessex in the Cathedral of Magdeburg.