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Glory to the Ottonians
The Beginning

The Emperor spent the remainder of 1000 in Italy without any notable activities. In 1001, the people of the Italian city of Tibur revolted against Imperial authority. Otto III besieged the city and quickly put down the revolt with easy, but spared its inhabitants. This action angered the people of Rome, who viewed Tibur was a rival and wanted the city destroyed. In a change of policy towards the papacy, Otto III bestowed the governance of the city upon Pope Sylvester II as part of the Papal States but under the overlordship of the Holy Roman Empire. Previously, Otto III had revoked the Pope's rights as secular ruler by denying the Donation of Constantine and by amending the Diploma Ottonianum.
In the weeks after Otto III's actions at Tibur the Roman people rebelled against their Emperor. The rebellious citizens, headed by Count Gregory I of Tusculum, besieged Otto III in his palace on the Palatine Hill and then drove him from the city.[19] Accompanied by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim and the German chronicler Thangmar, Otto III returned to the city to conduct peace negotiations between the Emperor and the rebellious Romans. Though both sides agreed to a peaceful settlement with the Romans respecting Otto III's rule over the city, feelings of mistrust characterized the city. Otto III's advisors urged the Emperor wait outside the city under military reinforcements could arrive to ensure his safety.
Otto III, accompanied by Pope Sylvester II, traveled to Ravenna to do penance in the monastery of Sant'Apollinare in Classe and to summon his army. While in Ravenna, Otto III received ambassadors from Duke Boleslaw I of Poland and approved of King Stephen of Hungary's plans to establish the Archdiocese of Esztergom in order to convert Hungary to Christianity. Otto III also strengthened the Empire's relation with the Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo. Since 996, the Emperor had been to godfather to Pietro II's son Otto Orseolo and in 1001 the Emperor arranged for Pietro II's daughter to be baptized.
On late 1001, Otto III felt something would happen to him if he were to disembark to Rome and it is something that would end his life.
The Eastern Roman princess Zoe, second daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII) had just disembarked in Puglia, on her way to Otto III on March 3, 1002, the two were married on Saint Peters Cathedral in Rome, the first thing that Empress Zoe as the Holy Roman Empress is to persuade her husband to help her uncle Basil II in securing Southern Italy something that she wants to happen.
Otto III used the Eastern Roman forces that his wife summoned to quell the rebellion in Rome.

Otto III urged Boleslaw Chrobry to divide his domains with his three sons, Bezprym getting Slovakia and Moravia, Mieszko Lambert getting the Duchy of Poland, the Ethnic Polish Lands and Otto getting Pomerania, the land of the Kaszubians while Bohemia would be a vassal of Otto III and promised him Kingship, Otto III called Boleslaw Chrobry, Rex Lechum the King of the Lechite People. Otto III had one goal, the reunification of the Lands of Charlemagne under his rule, he also promised Guilhem V, the land of Provence and the status of being the King of Aquitaine in exchange for allegiance with Allegience with Aquitaine and Poland, nothing could go wrong with the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III.




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