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Birth:           948 of Karnten, Austria
Death:          4 Nov 1004 

Notes
also Count in the Nahegau, Enzgau, Spayergau, and Mainenfeldgau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I,_Duke_of_Carinthia
Otto I (c. 948 – 4 November 1004), called Otto of Worms, a member of the Salian 
dynasty, was Duke of Carinthia from 978 to 985 and again from 1002 until his death.

Life[edit]

Otto was born in 948, the only son of Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingia since 944, 
and Liutgarde of Saxony, daughter of Emperor Otto I. As a grandson of the Holy 
Roman Emperor, Otto was born into a life of power. His mother died five years after he 
was born, at age 21, and Otto lived much of his early life in his grandfather's court till 
his death in 973 at age 61, when Otto was 25. His maternal uncle, Otto II, ascended 
the Imperial throne.

Otto of Worms is first documented as a count in the Nahegau about 956, he also held 
the Speyergau and Wormsgau, as well as several other counties in the area. In 978, 
when he was 30 years old, his uncle Emperor Otto II appointed him Carinthian duke 
and Margrave of Verona, after his Luitpolding predecessor Henry the Younger had 
unsuccessfully rebelled against the Imperial authority during the War of the Three 
Henries and was deposed. In 985 however, Emperor Otto's widow Theophanu, in order 
to gain support for the succession of her minor son Otto III, restored Carinthia to the 
Luitpoldings, and Otto again lost his duchy. He could at least retain the ducal title as 
"Duke of Worms", received the Kaiserpfalz of Lautern and seized large estates of 
Wissembourg (Weißenburg) Abbey in compensation.

Upon the death of Duke Henry II of Bavaria in 995, Otto at first received the March of 
Verona back, while Carinthia passed to Henry's son Duke Henry IV of Bavaria. When 
Emperor Otto III had died in 1002, Otto of Worms and Henry IV of Bavaria were 
candidates for the election as King of the Romans; Otto withdrew and received the 
Duchy of Carinthia from the newly elected king Henry (then Henry II of Germany) in 
return. Nevertheless, he was forced to cede his Rhenish possessions to his long-time 
rival Bishop Burchard of Worms.

Otto died two years later, he was succeeded as Carinthian duke by his son, Conrad.

Family[edit]

Otto married Judith (died 991), probably a granddaughter of Duke Arnulf the Bad of 
Bavaria. They had the following known children:
Henry of Speyer (died before 1000), Count in the Wormsgau
Brun (died 999), ruled as Pope Gregory V from 996
Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia (1004–1011)
William, Bishop of Strasbourg (1028–1047)

Parents
____ Conrad (Konrad) II "the Wise" (ABT  922 - 10 Aug  955)
____ Luitgarde (ABT  931 - 18 Nov  953)

Siblings
OF FRANCONIA Otto ( 948 - 4 Nov 1004)

Marriage To OF BAVARIA Judith (ABT  952 - AFT  978)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Henry (ABT  930 - 6 Sep 1000)
----- ----- (dtr of Arnulf the Bad) (ABT  920 - )

Children by OF BAVARIA Judith ABT  952 - AFT  978
OF FRANCONIA Henry (Heinrich) (ABT  969 - 28 May  989)

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