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19 hours ago · When in 1180, Henry the Lion was deposed as Duke of Saxony and Bavaria by his cousin, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (a.k.a. "Barbarossa" for his red beard), Bavaria was awarded as fief to the Wittelsbach family, counts palatinate of Schyren ("Scheyern" in modern German). They ruled for 738 years, from 1180 to 1918.
- History of Bavaria
When Otto of Wittelsbach gained Bavaria at Altenburg in...
- Politics of Bavaria
Bavaria has long been a bastion of conservative politics in...
- Flag of Bavaria
The Electorate of Bavaria was an independent hereditary...
- Bavarian Language
Language or dialect. Bavarian is commonly considered to be a...
- Bavarian Alps
Geography Bavarian Alps, view from Murnau. The term in its...
- Dachau
During much of the 12th century, Dachau was the primary...
- Coat of Arms of Bavaria
Coat of arms of Electorate of Bavaria (Elector Palatine)...
- Bavarian Cuisine
Schweinshaxn and Obatzda in a beer garden. Bavarian cuisine...
- Markus Söder
Background, education and military service. Söder was born...
- Lex Baiuvariorum
About the same period, too, the church of Bavaria was...
- History of Bavaria
2 days ago · During the reign of Henry's son, Henry II (the Quarrelsome) (955–976) Otto became the first Holy Roman Emperor (962) and Bavaria became a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire. Otto I re-established the eastern march, and was succeeded by Otto II in 967, and found himself in conflict with Henry who he deposed, allowing him to re-organise the duchies ...
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2 days ago · Wilhelm, German Crown Prince and son of Wilhelm II, with Adolf Hitler in March 1933. Beginning in 1925, some members of higher levels of the German nobility joined the Nazi Party, registered by their title, date of birth, NSDAP Party registration number, and date of joining the Nazi Party, from the registration of their first prince (Ernst) into NSDAP in 1928, until the end of World War II in ...
4 days ago · Bismarck: A Life. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780199599011; 592pp.; Price: £25.00. The historian G. P. Gooch, writing in 1948, observed that the ‘last word on the Iron Chancellor will never be spoken, not merely because historians will always wear spectacles of different tints, but because with the passing years it becomes ...
4 days ago · ^Spanish: Carlos II also known as the Bewitched (Spanish: El Hechizado) ^ Avunculate marriages, or those between uncle and niece, or aunt and nephew, were unusual but not unknown; examples from this period include Maximilian of Bavaria and his niece Maria Anna in 1635, Prince Maurice of Savoy and Princess Luisa Cristina of Savoy in 1642, while Charles's sister married her uncle Leopold in 1666.
5 days ago · Victor II (born c. 1018, Swabia—died July 28, 1057, Arezzo, Tuscany [Italy]) was the pope from 1055 to 1057. Victor was of noble birth and was appointed bishop of Eichstätt in 1042. He eventually became chief adviser to the Holy Roman emperor Henry III , who in 1054 nominated him as Pope St. Leo IX’s successor .
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