Now let us examine the rise of Otto the Great.
The Medieval Kingdom of Germany started out as the eastern section of the Frankish kingdom. The rulers of the eastern area thus called themselves Rex Francorum, King of the Franks. The term rex teutonicorum (“King of the Germans”) first came into use in Italy around the year 1000.
After the death of the last Carolingian, Louis the Child, in 911, dukes of the stem duchies (another topic all together) of Saxony, Swabia and Bavaria, acknowledged the unity of the kingdom and elected Conrad I, Duke of Franconia to be their king on November 10, 911 at Forchheim. Conrad was the son of Duke Conrad of Thuringia (called the Elder) and his wife Glismoda, probably related to Ota, wife of the Carolingian emperor Arnulf of Carinthia and mother of Louis the Child.
The dukes of the stem duchies prevented the succession…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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