Otto (died 944), son of Count
Ricwin and a
Liudolfing, was the
Count of Verdun by inheritance and the
Duke of Lorraine by appointment.
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great ( ) or Otto of Saxony ( ), was East Francia, East Frankish (Kingdom of Germany, German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the eldest son o ...
appointed him to Duke. Otto was a relative of the emperor, hence both his name and his appointment to high office. He is sometimes referred to as Otto I because another
Otto later ruled over
Lower Lorraine.
Sometime between 940 and 942, Otto was appointed duke and given the guardianship over Henry, son of
Gilbert, the first duke of Lorraine. He died not long afterward, and his ward Henry died soon after that.
Sources
*Bernhardt, John W. ''Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c. 936–1075''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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944 deaths
Dukes of Lorraine
Counts of Verdun
10th-century dukes in Europe
Year of birth unknown