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Also Known As Otto of Brunswick • Otto von Brunswick
Born c.1175 or c.1182
Died May 19, 1218 • Germany
Title / Office king (1198-1215), Germany • emperor (1198-1214), Holy Roman Empire
House / Dynasty Welf Dynasty
Role In Battle of Bouvines

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Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
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Henry IV
Holy Roman emperor
Louis IV
Holy Roman emperor
Sigismund
Sigismund
Holy Roman emperor
Philip
Philip
king of Germany
Frederick
king of Germany
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Frederick I during the Crusades
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
Holy Roman emperor
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff
German general
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
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Henry III
Henry III
Holy Roman emperor
Otto I and Edith
Otto I
Holy Roman emperor
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
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Conrad II
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Henry II, detail from a statue, c.1235; from a portal in the Bamberg Cathedral, Germany
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Paul von Hindenburg
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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
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Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon in Coronation Robes or Napoleon I Emperor of France, 1804 by Baron Francois Gerard or Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard, from the Musee National, Chateau de Versailles.
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Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon in Coronation Robes or Napoleon I Emperor of France, 1804 by Baron Francois Gerard or Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard, from the Musee National, Chateau de Versailles.
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