OTHO. 
Moorih king of Cordova, the other from Helen, queen of 
he 
uffians, who requefted him to fend vena in iad 
ar 
he was crowned oa of italy. In the next Gan g he ad- 
vanced to Rome, where he received the imperial crown from 
the hands of John XII. »» and from this era, according to 
duced by force and ratified by time. 1. That 
who was felected in the German me acquired from that 
and Rome: but 
pope, finding that he had procured a matter in an ally, invited, 
as foon as Otho had withdrawn his army from Rome, Adel- 
bert, the fon of Berenger, and entered into a treaty with him 
for the expulfion of the Germans. e' emperor there- 
upon convoked a council, which se aca John, on ai 
The emperor returning to Rome, depofed him and replaced 
Leo on the throne, and then went back to Germany. On 
the death of Leo, John XIII. was chofen, in compliance 
with the recommendation of Otho, but the Romans foon 
after imprifoned him, and renounced their allegiance to the 
emperor. Upon this he recroffed the Alps in 967, vifited 
Ravenna, and other italian cities, and caufed his fon Otho 
to be crowned at Rome, as his partner in the empire. At 
Capua he received an embafly from the Greek emperor, 
Nicephoras Phocas, who propofed a renewal of the alliance 
between the two empires, and requefted his aid to expel the 
Saracens from Calabria. Otho gave a favourable reply to 
the embafladors, and made overtures of marriage between 
his fon and Theophano, ftep-daughter of the Greek emperor. 
The embaffadors whom he fent to Conftantinople for the 
purpofe of regulating the nuptials, were treacheroufly ma{- 
facred, which violation of the laws of nations Otho revenged, 
by fending an army to ravage the Greek poffeffions in Cala- 
bria. After the death of Nicephorus, an agreement was en- 
tered into with his fucceffor, John eae ae and the marriage 
was confummated. after, in the enjoyment of 
peace and laa this emperor aied, ot an apoplettic dif- 
order, in the 
e 
which ve on extraordinary proofs of piety, courage, 
and generofity, on account ich he juftly acquired the 
epithet of Great. His confort ee plas into a convent 
agde bourg, 
faid to be ftill a a oe a Latin in- 
pa itt. Gi oe 
L., or of Germany, fon of the preceding, 
faceeeded his fi. to the ig crown, though oppofed 
fiderable part of his army. 
the arrangement of his affairs in Germany, he led a nu- 
merous body of forces into Italy, in order to punifh a revolt 
of the Romans, and to recover Apulia and Calabria, which 
had been recently taken by the Greeks and Saracens. e 
accordingly entered Rome without oppofition, and foon after 
hazarded a battle with the enemy, but his army was de- 
feated, and he himfelf was reduced to the neceflity of com- 
mitting himfelf to the mercy of the wa 
veffel, having firft ftripped himfelf of his imperial robes. 
his oan he renewed the war with vigour, é and 
his exertions were iced with fuch fignal fuccefs, tat the 
Saracens in utterly exterminated. He then 
chattifed i pufilanmow sd ad o had deferted him in 
a former the 
r this he marched 
He then 
returned to Rom 
983, having fat upon the thro 
His death has been differently accounted ce fome fay it was 
of a porfone javelin, received. in 
at his death 
ur a his emprefs 
Ule 
Italian fubjects, was fhewn 
their Cie to be taken even on oath. Univer. Hitt. 
Gibb 
Orso III., emperor of Germany, fon of the preceding» 
was twelve years of age when he {ucceeded to the throne 
on which account he obtained the furname of the ¢ inn? 
but when this appellation was no longer applicable, he ac- 
Rufus.’’ Henry, duke of Bavaria, 
m the duke’s cuftody, and caufed 
patel the c om 
of Crefeentius, governor and titular conful of that 
ity : omm ae of this reign was difturbed by 
of the Danes and Sclav nee but - 
ag decidedly viGto Abo 
imperial arms were ai Ten 
began between Charles, dike 
this time a furious conte 
