Otto IV

Also known as: Otho / emperour Otho · Family: Imperial · Role: emperor · First appears: King John 12

Life events

c. 1206 · King John gave Otto IV money to recruit soldiers for renewed war against France.(King John 12 · 📍 England)
- With: King John
- “gaue vnto him at his departing foorth of the realme, great summes of monie in hand towards the paiment of such souldiers as he should leuie for this businesse.”
1215 · Philip II defeated Otto IV in battle at the bridge of Bouins.(King John 23 · 📍 the bridge of Bouins)
- With: Philip II of France
- “his father king Philip with like successe, but in a foughten field, vanquished the emperour Otho at the bridge of Bouins on the 28 day of Julie”

allies with King John “king John, who taking councell with the said emperour to renew the warre against the French king ... gaue vnto him at his departing foorth of the realme, great summes of monie in hand towards the paiment of such souldiers as he should leuie for this businesse”

enemies with King John “King John in the meane time remaining still in France, and finding at the beginning fortune fauourable inough vnto him, by reason his power was much increased by the aid of the Poictouins, determined to attempt the winning of Britaine, for this cause specialie, that he might by so dooing weaken the French kings power, and partlie also to withdraw him from the wars of Flanders, on which side he had procured likewise the French borders to be inuaded with great force, and that not onelie by the earle and such capteins as he had sent thither, and reteined in wages, but also by the emperour Otho, who in proper person came downe into that countrie himselfe.”
enemies with Philip II of France “In the meane time also his father king Philip with like successe, but in a foughten field, vanquished the emperour Otho at the bridge of Bouins on the 28 day of Julie”
allies with King John “he had procured likewise the French borders to be inuaded with great force, and that not onelie by the earle and such capteins as he had sent thither, and reteined in wages, but also by the emperour Otho, who in proper person came downe into that countrie himselfe”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.