the ledger of connections
The Connections of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 973 to 983 and King of Italy from 980 to 983 Every person recorded alongside Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Otto the Great, Adelaide of Italy
- Spouses
- Theophanu
- Children
- Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, Sophia I, Adelaide I, Matilda of Germany, Countess Palatine of Lotharingia
- Siblings
- Emma of Italy, Liutgarde, Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, William, Archbishop of Mainz
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 955 CE to 983 CE.
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Sei Shonagon
966 CE – 1025
Japanese author and court lady
Medieval era
Ly Thai To
March 8, 974 CE – 1028
Vietnamese emperor
Medieval era
Al-Mutanabbi
920 CE – 965 CE
Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)
Medieval era
Æthelred the Unready
967 CE – April 23, 1016
King of England
Medieval era
Sweyn Forkbeard
April 17, 963 CE – February 3, 1014
King of Denmark, England, and Norway
Medieval era
Brian Boru
941 CE – April 23, 1014
High King of Ireland