General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Lord
BIOGRAPHY: Otterus was "an Italian Baron of the Gherardini of Florence, Lord inTuscany, went from Florence into Normandy and then toEngland and Wales about 1000. He was son of Cosmus, the great Duke of Florence." -Carr P. Collins, Jr., "Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons"(Dallas, 1959), p. 103.

BIOGRAPHY: Some records say that Otho went to Normandy in the caravan of King Canute of England who had passed through Florence on his way home from a pilgrimage to Rome. It is said that he came into England later with Edward the Confessor when he was called back from exile to be King of England. Thereis an old lyric quote in English records which says "the Earldom which to Othobrave, the Saxon sainted Edward gave". His son, Otho Fitz-Othoer appears in 1058 in the Domesday Book as a baron of England.