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Origins of the empire and sources of imperial ideas. There was no inherent reason why, after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476 and the establishment there of Germanic kingdoms, there should ever again have been an empire, still less a Roman empire, in western Europe. The reason this took place is to be sought (1) in certain local ...
Key Points. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans, reviving the title in Western Europe after more than three centuries, thus creating the Carolingian Empire, whose territory came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. After the dissolution of the Carolingian Dynasty and the breakup of the empire into conflicting ...
The Treaty of Verdun of 843 assigned Upper Burgundy (the western part of what is today Switzerland) to Lotharingia, and Alemannia (the eastern part) to the eastern kingdom of Louis the German which would become part of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 10th century, as the rule of the Carolingians waned, Magyars destroyed Basel in 917 and St ...
Part of the Holy Roman Empire. The German kings and emperors ruled the Netherlands in the 10th and 11th century, with the assistance of the Dukes of Lotharingia, and the bishops of Utrecht and Liège. Germany was called the Holy Roman Empire after the coronation of King Otto the Great as emperor.
Jan 5, 2016 · The Republic Expands In Italy. The best place to start is at the beginning: the conquest of the peninsula of Italy. After the fall of the monarchy and the creation of the Republic, the city of Rome, for whatever reason, wanted to grow beyond its seven hills, and this growth meant, first of all, conquering all of Italy.
Dec 1, 2016 · A simplified map of the territorial evolution of the Holy Roman Empire (962 – 1806) is presented below. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 marked a turning point in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, as it recognized the sovereignty and autonomy of many individual states within the empire. As a result, the empire gradually declined in ...
Charlemagne was king of the Franks (the Frankish kingdom covered all of modern day France and a good part of modern Germany) who then conquerd the Lombards in Italy and was crowned Roman emperor by the pope in the year 800. After his death his only surviving son Louis, known as the pious, inherited his fathers empire and ruled until his death ...
