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2 days ago · Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the ...
May 8, 2024 · Otto I (Reign: 936-973) Otto I, also known as Otto the Great, was the first emperor of what is traditionally considered the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne. Crowned in 962, his reign is notable for its consolidation of the empire through strong military leadership. Otto the Great defeated the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, which ...
6 days ago · Frederick I (born c. 1123—died June 10, 1190) was the duke of Swabia (as Frederick III, 1147–90) and German king and Holy Roman emperor (1152–90), who challenged papal authority and sought to establish German predominance in western Europe.
6 days ago · Judith of Bavaria. Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (German: Friedrich I; Italian: Federico I ), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152.
Charlemagne died in 814 and his “empire” in the west fell apart soon afterwards. In the 10th century the claim was restored by Charlemagne’s descendant Otto I, the king of Germany, and the title evolved into “Holy Roman Emperor”. The Holy Roman Emperors and the Byzantine emperors were generally pretty friendly with each other at first.
May 1, 2024 · brother Ferdinand IV. Leopold I (born June 9, 1640, Vienna—died May 5, 1705, Vienna) was the Holy Roman emperor during whose lengthy reign (1658–1705) Austria emerged from a series of struggles with the Turks and the French to become a great European power, in which monarchical absolutism and administrative centralism gained ascendancy.
1 day ago · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55. Thursday, 27 July 2023. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere.
