King <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> elects his six-year-old son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" id="mwLg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto II</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heir_apparent" id="mwLw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Heir apparent">heir apparent</a> and co-ruler of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Francia" id="mwMA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="East Francia">East Frankish Kingdom</a>. He is crowned at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen" id="mwMQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>, and placed under the tutelage of his grandmother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Ringelheim" id="mwMg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Matilda of Ringelheim">Matilda</a>.<sup about="#mwt30" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_26#cite_note-4" id="mwMw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwNA">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt27" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1" id="CITEREFChisholm1911"><a href="./Hugh_Chisholm" id="mwBp8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwBqA" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Otto II."><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Otto_II." id="mwBqE" rel="mw:ExtLink">"Otto II."<span id="mwBqI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. <i id="mwBqM"><a href="./Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" id="mwBqQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol.<span id="mwBqU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>20 (11th<span id="mwBqY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). Cambridge University Press. <q id="mwBqc">third line "He was chosen German king at Worms in 961, crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 26th of May 961"<span class="cs1-kern-right" id="mwBqg"></span></q></cite><span about="#mwt27" class="Z3988" id="mwBqk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Otto+II.&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&amp;rft.edition=11th&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1911&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+26"></span><link about="#mwt27" href="./Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_a_citation_from_the_1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica_with_Wikisource_reference" id="mwBqo" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>