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War of the Three Henries (976–978)

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and enforced the submission of Duke Boleslaus II, a new conspiracy arose in Bavaria. The conspirators — Bishop Henry I of Augsburg, the recently deposed Henry the Wrangler, and the Carinthian Duke Henry I the Younger — even had the support of the Church. Emperor Otto could rely on the
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lands from Bavaria, about a third of the duchy's territory. He enfeoffed his nephew Otto I, Duke of Swabia since 973, with remaining Bavaria and vested the Luitpolding scion
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The chief result of the conflict was the complete subjection of Bavaria: henceforth it was no longer the indisputably greatest of the
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in order to prepare for an ecclesiastical career. His father Henry the Wrangler was not released until the emperor's death in 983.
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in 976 and continued to plot against Otto, even scheming with Saxon nobles like
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without disturbance. However, like his father he had to cope with a restless
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support of his nephew Otto I, then Duke of Swabia and Bavaria, and attacked
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and the onset of winter forced Otto to lift the siege and withdraw back to
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In 977, the conflict escalated. While the emperor's troops invaded the
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in 976–977, with a final peace imposed in 978. The three Henries were:
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to prepare a response. In September Otto counter-invaded the
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surprised Otto by taking his army of nearly 20,000 against
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The War of the Three Henries was quickly followed by
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