Otto I - Otto

Japanese: オットー[1世] - オットー

King of the House of Saxony in Germany (reigned 936-973). Son of Henry I, he was called the Great. In 962, he was crowned by Pope John XII and founded the Holy Roman Empire. He defeated foreign enemies such as the Normans and Magyars early on (Battle of Lechfeld), and strongly promoted the unification of the nation. In order to overcome the divisions of the various tribes within the country, he initially placed close relatives of his family, but later changed his policy to the Imperial Church. His expedition to Rome at the request of the Pope for aid created a union between the German monarchy and the Holy Roman imperial power, but eventually became an indirect cause of the conflict between the emperor and the pope (Italian policy). His church policy and exchange with Byzantine culture led to a revival of classical learning and the arts, and the era known as the Ottonian Renaissance began.
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Japanese:

ドイツ，ザクセン朝の王（在位936年―973年）。ハインリヒ１世の子で大帝と称される。962年教皇ヨハネス12世から帝冠を受け神聖ローマ帝国を創始。早くからノルマン，マジャールなど外敵を討ち（レヒフェルトの戦），国家統一強化も強力に推進。国内諸部族の分立を克服するため当初は一族の近縁者を配置したが，のち帝国教会政策に転換。教皇の援助要請によるローマ遠征は，ドイツ王権と神聖ローマ皇帝権との結合を生んだが，やがて皇帝対教皇の衝突の遠因ともなった（イタリア政策）。彼の教会政策，ビザンティン文化との交流により古典的学芸の復活が興り，オットー朝ルネサンスといわれる時代が始まった。
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