Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Otto IV
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
Otto IV
Quizzes
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.
Kings and Emperors (Part III) Quiz
Related Questions
Discover
Data analysis of the Super Bowl's "winningest" teams, game locations, MVP winners by position, teams with the most game losses. football, sports, infographic
From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl
Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece
Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents
Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time
January 21, 2019: Superbowl LIII will be played at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, February 3, 2019 against the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.
What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Otto IV: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Otto-IV
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

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

Photos

Otto IV
See All Images →
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Henry IV
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
German minister
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
German military official
Conrad II
Holy Roman emperor
Henry II, detail from a statue, c.1235; from a portal in the Bamberg Cathedral, Germany
Henry II
Holy Roman emperor
Henry V and Pope Paschal II
Henry V
Holy Roman emperor
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg
German president
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
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.
Kings and Emperors (Part III) Quiz
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.
Kings and Emperors (Part III) Quiz