III Otto 
III was born in 0980 in Kessel, Germany. III's father was II Otto and his mother was Theophano of Byzantium. His paternal grandparents were Otto I "the Great" and St. Adelaide of Lombardy. He had two sisters named Adelheid and Matilda. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 22 in 1002.General Notes
Otto III (980-1002), Holy Roman emperor (996-1002), king of Germany (983-1002), son of Otto II, born in Kessel, Germany. He reigned under the coregency of his mother, Theophano, and his grandmother, Adelaide, from 983 to 991 and then under the regency of a council from 991 to 996. In 996 Otto assumed control, and having been crowned king of the Lombards, he went to Rome and established his cousin Bruno as Pope Gregory. After Gregory's death Otto made his own former tutor, Gerbert, pope as Sylvester II. Otto remained in Rome until his death, striving to make the city the capital of the Holy Roman Empire and to restore many of the customs of the ancient Roman Empire.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0806 in Saxony d.6 SEP 864 in Saxony
- b.0836 in Saxony d.30 NOV 912
- b.0816 d.May 0913
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.2 JUN 936 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.0863 in Saxony d.0899
- b.~ 0855 in Saxony d.24 DEC 903
- b.~ 0840 in Bayern, Bavaria
- b.23 NOV 912 in Saxony, Germany d.7 MAY 973
- b.~ 0828 in Ringeheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany
- b.~ 0853 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover d.8 DEC 917
- b.~ 0833 in Ringeheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany d.> 0909
- b.~ 0892 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hanover d.14 MAR 967/68 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.~ 0834 in Friesland, Germany d.> 0905
- b.~ 0868 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover
- b.~ 0863 in Alsace-Lorraine, France d.26 OCT 907
- b.~ 0955 in Saxony, Germany d.7 DEC 983 in Rome, Italy
- b.0825 in Bourgogne, France d.0881
- b.0847 in Bourgogne, France d.0911
- b.~ 0830 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0902 in Burgundy, France d.11 AUG 937
- b.~ 0838 in Metz, France d.0887
- b.~ 0858 d.14 JUN 929
- b.~ 0840 d.0897
- b.0931 in Lombardy, France d.16 DEC 999 in Selz, Alsace
- b.~ 0865
- b.0885 in Burgundy, France d.29 APR 926 in Ivrea, France
- b.~ 0895 in Burgundy, France d.2 JAN 965/66
- b.~ 0890
- b.~ 0885 d.0958
- d.~ 0890
- b.0980 in Kessel, Germany d.1002
- b.~ 0956 d.15 JUN 991
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