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3 days 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.
2 days ago · He succeeded his father as duke; and later his cousin, Otto III, as King of Germany in 1002. Two years later, he added the title King of Italy. In 1014 Henry was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict VIII. The Emperor and the Cluniac reform. Henry’s support for the moral reform begun from the Abbey of Cluny was significant.
3 days ago · The Holy Roman Empire was a conglomeration of states and territories that held sway over much of Europe to varying degrees for nearly 1,000 years. Historical tradition has it that the Frankish ruler Charlemagne took the title of emperor when he was crowned King of the Franks in 800. It was not until 962, however, when one of his successors ...
4 days ago · Gisela, Stephen's wife, was the sister of the ruler later canonized as the Holy Roman Emperor Saint Henry II. Greatly devoted to the Virgin Mary, Stephen had several churches built in her honor ...
3 days ago · The state was a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire and subject to the Pope’s authority in Rome but mostly chartered its own course. The prince-bishopric emerged around 980 when the bishop of Liège, Notger (or Notker) seized the counties of Hoei and Bruningerode, thus merging his episcopal duties with those of a worldly prince.
6 days ago · Federation under the Roman-German emperor resp. the German king from 800 until 1806. Under the Habsburg reign, the Kapuzinergruft in Vienna ("Imperial Crypt") became the family burial site of the Roman-German emperors; in earlier times the emperors used to be buried in different cities of the Empire (Aix-la-Chapelle, Speyer, Prague, Graz etc.).
3 days ago · The Nine Years' War, [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
