Ota (wife of Arnulf of Carinthia)
Oda, also Ota, Uta, (c. 873/874 probably in Velden; † after November 30 903), probably from the noble Conradines was, as the wife of Arnulf of Carinthia Duchess of Carinthia, East Frankish queen and Roman-German Empress and mother of Louis IV the child.
Life
To 888 she married the Duke of Carinthia Arnulf, who had been elected to the East Frankish king 887 and the Roman - German Emperor dignity sought. By linking these Arnulf hoped for the support of Conradines who ruled over Lorraine, Rhine Franconia, Hesse and Bavaria.
When she was born her husband after a year still no successor, put the king of the Imperial Assembly in Forchheim the request should recognize his two illegitimate sons Zwentibold and Ratold of two Konkubinaten as his successor. Only 893 finally gave birth to Oda the desired male heir Ludwig.
Towards the end of the reign of Arnulf Oda stepped in historical documents several times for the preservation of the privileges of the major monasteries Kremsmuenster and Altötting and the cathedrals of Worms and Freising. Obviously, they had actively supported her husband during his reign years. However, she managed to even enemies; shortly before the death of her already seriously ill and unfit to reign husband she had to in Regensburg defend against the charge of adultery in June 899, but could successfully avert the accusation by 72 compurgators. This was the second trial of this kind in the history of the Middle Ages: Only 12 years ago the Empress Richarde the same offense had been charged.
Oda bequeathed the significant lands and Brixen Föhring from their Witwengut her son Louis to equip the Episcopal churches of Saeben and Freising. It is expected to be returned after the death of her husband in their Franconian home and was buried after her death at the side of her husband in St. Emmeram monastery at Regensburg.
Origin
Lie to Oda's origin before different sources in research, the question is controversial. Friedrich Stein had shown in 1872 that Oda was no sister of Conrad the Elder, and believed that her father was Berengar or Berthold, two brothers and uncle Conrad from the family of Conradines. This view is still widely accepted. Background of the assumptions in the direction of Conradines are the names propinquus Ludovici and nepos amabilis, which are given to the sons of Conrad the Elder in relation to King Louis the Child.
Donald C. Jackman does not see these names, especially with the addition amabilis, as an indication of a much closer relationship, as pointed out by Stone and Eduard Hlawitschka, but on the father, but on the maternal side: he concludes that Queen Oda had been as a mother of King Louis and Glismut as mother of King Conrad sisters. From this he concludes in particular that neither Berengar were still Berthold Oda's father, and that Oda can not belong to the family of Conradines. A consequence of his assumption is that King Conrad I. Ludwig was a first cousin of the next blood relatives, which - according to Jackman - at the election of the king in 911 played a crucial role.
Georg Spitzlberger sees the Lower Bavarian market Velden as the birthplace of Oda. The place took around the time of birth as a royal a central position.