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4 days ago · Dynastic competition, 1125–52. The nearest kinsmen of Henry V were his Hohenstaufen nephews— Frederick, duke of Swabia, and his younger brother Conrad —the sons of Henry’s sister Agnes and Frederick, the first Hohenstaufen duke of Swabia.
4 days ago · The papacy had dimmed the empire’s prestige and decreased the emperor’s power, and Rome became the true home of universalistic causes. When Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade in 1095, Henry IV, cut off and surrounded by enemies, was living obscurely in a corner of northern Italy.
1 day ago · The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( German: Herzogtum Braunschweig und Lüneburg ), or more properly the Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg, was a historical duchy that existed from the late Middle Ages to the Late Modern era within the Holy Roman Empire, until the year of its dissolution. The duchy was located in what is now northwestern Germany.
4 days ago · Hugh Grant was once a notoriously eligible bachelor, much like his characters in iconic romantic comedies of the '90s and early aughts. But in 2018, the actor left singledom behind when he married ...
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4 days ago · He welcomed his daughter Tabitha Xiao Xi (Xiao Xi means ‘happy surprise’) in September 2011 with Tinglan Hong. A year later, in 2012, Hugh became the dad of two more children. In September of that year, Hugh welcomed a son named John Mungo with his now-wife Anna and in December, he welcomed a son named Felix Chang Hong with Tinglan.
4 days ago · Charles V [c] [d] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg.
2 days ago · True crime film “Tell Them You Love Me” joined the streaming giant’s roster, telling of the controversial events between white ethics professor Anna Stubblefield and Black nonverbal man Derrick Johnson, whom she was later convicted of sexually assaulting in New Jersey. Throughout the documentary, director
