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Otto of Freising (Latin: Otto Frisingensis; c. 1111 or 1112 – 22 September 1158) was a German churchman of the Cistercian order and a chronicler. He was the bishop of Freising from 1138.

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For being transferred from the City to the Greeks, from the Greeks to the Franks, from the Franks to the Lombards, from the Lombards again to the German Franks, that empire not only became decrepit and senile through lapse of time, but also, like a once smooth pebble that has been rolled this way and that by the waters, contracted many a stain and developed many a defect.

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