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of Lorrain, and Hugh Capet, which terminated in the cap- 
tivity of the former, “and the exaltation of his rival to the 
crown of France. In e croffed the A!ps, reduced 
ilan, where he received the Lo crown, ro- 
a to Rome, filled the pontifical chair, which was be- 
me vacant, with a relation of his own, by the name of 
Paes V.,; whom, in retur phe wae crowned em- 
peror. He pardoned Crefcentius, quieted the difturbances 
at Capua and Benevento, and then revifited the Lombard 
cities on his return to Germany. On his arrival at Mo- 
dena, he gave a ftriking proof of what was denominated, 
in thofe days, a love of juftice, upon the emprefs Mary, 
daughter of the king of Arragon, who, having been re- 
pulfed in her criminal advances to the count of that place 
falfely accufed him of an attempt upon her honour. Qtho, 
paying credit to the charge, had put the count to death, 
but his widow demanding juftice, having proved the inno- 
ufband, Mary was ordered to be burnt alive, 
d her det eae in fome criminal at 1s, perhaps, 
improba 
oon as Otho | had returned into Germany, and aia 
to make fome neceflary regulations, he received the 
atious intligence that Cr ane having obtained dee con- 
fulfhi Rome, had expelled pope nt ee ~ fill 
his piace with another, who had affum am 
John XVI. e emperor in{tantly are aa all pof- 
fible expedition into Italy, made himfelf mafter of Rome, 
and treated the two ufurpers with extraordinary feverity : 
for the anti-pope, after having been deprived of his eyes 
and his nofe, in the moft cruel manner, was hurled from 
the top of the caftle of St. Angelo; and Crefcentius, after 
being expofed to public derifion, and put to the torture, 
was hanged upon a very high tree, together with twelve 
of his adherents. He re-eftablifhed Gregory, and publithed 
a decree, declaring, that for oe future the Germans alone 
fhould have the privilege of ele a Roman emperor. I 
the year 1000, at the folicitation hs me duke Boleflaus, he 
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ecclefiaftical benefices in Germany were granted by the firft 
IV. -, emperor of Germany, was duke of Saxony, 
of the ead of Brunfwick, when, n the death of the 
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houfe of laa and ele&ted Otho king of the Romans, 
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He was at this time in Poitou, with his uncle Richard I, of 
England, and haftening into Germany, he collected forces, 
and repaired to Aix-la-Chapelle, where he was crow 
by the archbifhop of Cologne. 
loft a powerful fupporter on the death of king Richard ; 
for John, who fucceeded him, abandoned the interefts of his 
nephew. In 1205, Otho took refuge in England, and Philip 
was left without a rival ; but while he was treating for a re- 
conciliation, and employing himfelf in gaining the affections 
of his fubjects, he was bafely murdered by a private hand 
1208. On this event Otho fo ingratiated himfelf with 
the clergy ane pope, that Innocent invited him into Italy 
to receive the imperial crown at his hands. In 1209 he 
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oppofite party: he was, however, foon defeated, and giadly 
retired to Brunfwick, where h fou 8 
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private condition, spies aia to exercifes aera devotion, 
and one died, 
OrH a aie chronicler of the twelfth sient hg 
the ia of Toe 4, marquis of Auftria, and Agnes, da augh- 
ter of the emperor Hen was educated for the ec- 
clefiaftical profeffion, and was appointed, in very early life, 
by his father, provoft of the college which he had founded 
at Newenburg, in Auftria. He afterwards fpent fome years 
in his ftudies at Paris, and then became abbot of a monaftery 
of Ciftertiansat Moribond, in Burgundy. In1138his brother, 
Conrad ITT., created him bifhop of Frienjen, in Bavaria. 
afterwards accompanied that prince in his expedition to the 
Holy Land, and was frequently confulted by him in his 
affaice, as he was alfo by Frederic Barbarofla, who was his 
nephew. Otho died at Moribond in 1158. He is faid to 
have been the firft, or, perhaps, more vo among the 
rft of the German prelates who w erfed in literature, 
and acquainted with the Anittotelian ‘philofophy. It is, 
however, as a hiftorian that his memory has been  eniahian 
He compofed a chronicle from the creation to 
ds fhed, w 
than 50 chapters, by Urttitius of Ball, i n his Hiftory of 
lebrated Germans. It is alfo contained in the colleCtions of 
Piftorius and Muratori. 
OTHOMAN. See Ortoman. 
OTHONE, ofovn and ofonoy, among the ancients, a kind 
of linen garment worn by women. 
NI, a word ufed by chemical writers for what 
they otherwife call the mercury of the philofa ophers, or philofo- 
al. 
6G PHONNA, the name given by fome authors toa ftone 
found in Egypt, and defcribed to be always in {mall pieces, 
and of the colour of polifhed brals probably it is fome f{pe- 
cies of the pyrites. 
OrHonné, in Botany, a name which occurs in Pliny, 
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