Otto of Freising

   Latin chronicler of the Second Crusade (q.v.). Bishop of Freising in Germany and half-brother of Conrad III (qq.v.). Otto led a main contingent of the Crusader army that marched south through Asia Minor to Attaleia on the Aegean (qq.v.) coast. His Gesta Frederici (The Deeds of Frederick), commissioned by Frederick I Barbarossa (q.v.), Otto's uncle, is an important eyewitness account of the Second Crusade, in addition to the comments it provides on Byzantine affairs during the reigns of John II Komnenos and Manuel I Komnenos (qq.v.), e.g., the marriage of Bertha of Sulzbach (q.v.) and Manuel I.