A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . )()sition. Otto made some conces-sions. Bavaria was to be restored to Henry the Quarrelsome, who 266 UNIVERSAL EMPIRE UNDER OTTO 11 AND III bad already ouce possessed it, and now united it to Carinthia and. Fig. 73. — Coin of Otto III. and Adellieid. Obv.: In the field a Cross with theletters ODDO disposed between the arms. Legend: t DI IGR-A f REX. Kov.:A crowned head. Legend: OTTO REX ADELhEIDA. the March of Verona. Conrad, a cousin of the deceased DukeOtto, received Swabia. But the way in which Otto now
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . )()sition. Otto made some conces-sions. Bavaria was to be restored to Henry the Quarrelsome, who 266 UNIVERSAL EMPIRE UNDER OTTO 11 AND III bad already ouce possessed it, and now united it to Carinthia and. Fig. 73. — Coin of Otto III. and Adellieid. Obv.: In the field a Cross with theletters ODDO disposed between the arms. Legend: t DI IGR-A f REX. Kov.:A crowned head. Legend: OTTO REX ADELhEIDA. the March of Verona. Conrad, a cousin of the deceased DukeOtto, received Swabia. But the way in which Otto now gave ex-pression to the principle that Germany and Italy belonged togetherwas new, and was characteristic of his point of view. With-out regard to the national differences, and the political separa-tion between the two countries, the Italian and German nobles,at Ottos request, jointly elected his three-year-old son by Theo-phano to be their king. This took place in Verona. The childwas then intrusted to the faithful Willegis of Mayence (975-1011),who was to conduct him over the Alps, and have him crowned atAix (Fig. 73). The emperor made his mother, Adelheid, regentof Italy. He himself wished, after the threatened catastrophe had been pre-vented, to make a new expedition to the south
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