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As a part of Holstein, Kiel belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and was situated only a few kilometres south of the Danish border. Kiel in the 16th century. The capital of the county (later duchy) of Holstein, Kiel was a member of the Hanseatic League from 1284 until it was expelled in 1518 for harbouring pirates.
In 1460 Kiel became part of the Danish kingdom. In 1665 Duke Christian Albrecht founded Kiel University, the northernmost university of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th century several conflicts arose, like the conflict with the Russian Tsar family of Peter III.
Nov 9, 2009 · Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, was a medieval king who established a vast Carolingian empire and was eventually crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Charlemagne (born April 2, 747?—died January 28, 814, Aachen, Austrasia [now in Germany]) was the king of the Franks (768–814), king of the Lombards (774–814), and first emperor (800–814) of the Romans and of what was later called the Holy Roman Empire.
- Charlemagne was an 8th-century Frankish king who has attained a status of almost mythical proportions in the West. Among other things, he was respo...
- Charlemagne was crowned “emperor of the Romans” by Pope Leo III in 800 CE, thus restoring the Roman Empire in the West for the first time since its...
- The first three decades of Charlemagne’s reign were characterized by extensive military campaigning. His campaign against the Saxons proved to be h...
- Charlemagne facilitated an intellectual and cultural golden age during his reign that historians call the Carolingian Renaissance—after the Carolin...
- Charlemagne’s father, Pippin III, was of nonroyal birth. Pippin III was actually the mayor of the palace belonging to the previous dynasty, the Mer...
Charlemagne's position as the first emperor in the West in over 300 years brought him into conflict with the Eastern Roman Empire, based in Constantinople. Through his assumption of the imperial title, he is considered the forerunner of the line of Holy Roman Emperors which persisted into the nineteenth century.
The Holy Roman Empire, [e] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [19] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost 1,000 years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
May 6, 2024 · Though the term “Holy Roman Empire” was not used until much later, the empire traces its beginnings to Charlemagne, who took control of the Frankish dominion in 768. The papacy ’s close ties to the Franks and its growing estrangement from the Eastern Roman Empire led to Pope Leo III ’s crowning of Charlemagne as “emperor of the Romans ...
