Middle+Ages+Letter

Dear Father,  I know that you can’t receive this letter because you are dead but I just wanted to let you know that I have become the Duke of Saxony. Now I might have a chance to become king. The rulers of the other great duchies are causing me initial problems. I hope to resolve these problems soon. I have been drawn into Italy by the fear that my widowed Queen Adelaide, who is having trouble, will be rescued, and her lands absorbed, by the nearby king of Burgundy or my own dukes of Swabia or Bavaria. I have gotten married to her and claimed her lands. Before I could consolidate my position there, I was drawn back to Germany by a revolt of my leading dukes, led by my son and heir, and by a serious incursion of the nearby Hungarians. I put down the revolt and crushed the Hungarians at the decisive battle of Lechfeld in 955. While I was busy in Germany, I did not ignore my neighbors. I intervened in the struggle between the French Capetians and Carolingians and thus assured myself of their acceptance of my absorption of Lorraine into the empire. I kept control over Hedeby in Denmark and over the archbishoprics of that kingdom. I encouraged churchmen and my Saxon subordinates Gero and Herman Billung to begin the conquest of the Slavs beyond the Elbe River, and I forced the Duke of Bohemia to do my homage.  Your Son, Otto I