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Shortly after his coronation, Henry II, deposed Duke of Bavaria, seized him in an attempt to procure the regency, but in May 984 he was forced to return Otto to his mother, Theophanu, who served as regent until her death in 991. Otto II's mother, Adelaide of Italy then served as regent until Otto III reached his majority in 994.
Otto attempted to revive the glory and power of ancient RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman with himself at the head of a theocratic state. In 996Events The oldest surviving document mentioning Austria Ostarrichi in Old High German) is dated to this year. March/ April Pope John XV dies before being being able to coronate Otto III, King of Germany as Holy Roman Emperor. Otto resides in Pavia while w, he came to the aid of PopeThis article is about the Catholic pope. See Pope (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word pope. The Pope is the Catholic bishop and patriarch of Rome, and ex officio supreme spiritual leader of what might be called the Catholic Communion (that is, John XV at the pope's request to put down the rebellion of a Roman nobleman named Crescentius II . He was declared King of LombardyLombardy ( It. Lombardia is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po Valley. Lombardy's capital is Milan, and the region is divided into the following provinces, all named after their capital cities: Bergamo Brescia ( weapon industries) Como at PaviaPavia (the ancient Ticinum (population 71,000) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. Pavia is the capital of a fertile province (also named Pavia) es, but failed to reach Rome before the Pope died. Once in Rome, he engineered the election of his cousin Bruno of Carinthia as Pope Gregory V, the first German pope, and the new pontiff crowned Otto emperor on May 21May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). There are 224 days remaining. Events 996 Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1674 John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland., 996. Upon Otto's departure from the city, Crescentius deposed Gregory and installed John XVI as pope, but Otto returned to Italy and retook the city in 998, executing Crescentius and reinstating Gregory.
Otto made Rome the administrative center of his empire and revived elaborate Roman customs and Byzantine court ceremonies. He took the titles "the servant of Jesus Christ," "the servant of the apostles," and "emperor of the world." When Gregory V died in 999, he arranged for his former tutor, Gerbert of Aurillac, to be elected pope as Sylvester II. The next year, he made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Adalbert of Prague at Gniezno and founded the archbishopric of Poland.
A minor rebellion by the town of Tibur in 1001 ended up being his undoing. He retook the town, but spared the inhabitants, which made the people of Rome mad because Tibur was a rival they wanted destroyed. This led to a rebellion in February that drove Otto from the city. He withdrew to Ravenna and beseeched his cousin Henry IV, Duke of Bavaria, for military aid, but he died before Henry could arrive. Henry succeeded him as king of Germany (and later as emperor) as Henry II.
| Preceded by: Otto II | King of Germany Also Holy Roman Emperor | Succeeded by: Henry II |
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