Otto III When Otto III came of age, he concentrated on securing the rule in the Italian domains, installing his confidants Bruno of Carinthia and Gerbert of Aurillac as popes. In 1000 he made a pilgrimage to the Congress of Gniezno in Poland, establishing the Archdiocese of Gniezno and confirming the royal status of the Piast ruler Bolesław I the Brave. Expelled from Rome in 1001, Otto III died at age 21 the next year, without an opportunity to reconquer the city.
Otto III When Otto III came of age he concentrated on securing the rule in the Italian domains installing his confidants Bruno of Carinthia and Gerbert of Aurillac as popes In 1000 he made a pilgrimage to the Congress of Gniezno in Poland establishing the Archdiocese of Gniezno and confirming the royal status of the Piast ruler Bolesław I the Brave Expelled from Rome in 1001 Otto III died at age 21 the next year without an opportunity to reconquer the city