m.2 (Dec 951) Otto I the Great (d.May 7, 973)[2][3]
Henry (b. 952)
Bruno (b.953)
Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. abt 954)
Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor (b.955)
Sainthood
1097 AD: Canonized by Pope Urban II
feast: Dec 16
Sources
↑ father: Hugh of Arles, king of Italy; first marriage at fifteen
↑ crowned Emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and she was crowned Empress; Among their children, four lived to maturity
l after Otto died, Adelaide exercised influence over her son Otto II until their estrangement in 978, when she left the court and lived in Burgundy with her brother King Conrad. At Conrad's urging she became reconciled with her son, and, before his death in 983, Otto appointed her his regent in Italy. With her daughter-in-law, Empress Theophano, she upheld the right of her three-year-old grandson, Otto III, to the German throne. She lived in Lombardy from 985 to 991, when she returned to Germany to serve as sole regent after Theophano's death (991). She governed until Otto III came of age (994), and, when he became Holy Roman emperor in 996, she retired from court life, devoting herself to founding churches, monasteries, and convents.
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