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Jun 16, 2023 · The Saxon Wars (772-804) were a series of conflicts between the Franks under Charlemagne, who sought to conquer Saxony and convert the populace to Christianity, and the Saxons who resisted. The conflict lasted over 30 years through 18 campaigns and cost thousands of lives before Charlemagne's victory in 804 and Saxon conversion/assimilation ...
Mar 21, 2021 · Richard of York was the third Duke of York and one of the most important men in Late Medieval England. A political giant during the reign of his cousin, Henry VI, the Duke’s clashes with Queen Margaret of Anjou and her supporter, Edmund Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset led to the Wars of the Roses and two of the Duke of York’s sons, Edward IV and Richard III becoming king.
Aug 19, 2023 · Otto was the eldest son of Henry the Fowler, the Duke of Saxony, who ruled a large swath of territory across Northern Germany. His mother Matilda was renowned for her piety and was later made a ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry the Lion (1129 August 6, 1195; in German, Heinrich der Löwe) was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156. He held both duchies until 1180 and was the most powerful of the German princes of his time, until the rival ...
Henry II was canonised by Pope Eugene III in 1146. As his marriage with Cunigunde of Luxembourg remained childless, the Ottonian dynasty became extinct with the death of Henry II in 1024. The crown passed to Conrad II of the Salian dynasty, great-grandson of Liutgarde, a daughter of Otto I, and the Salian duke Conrad the Red of Lorraine.
Welf IV and an heiress of the Billungs, former dukes of Saxony. Henry's mother was Gertude, only daughter of Emperor Lothar II and his wife Richenza of Nordheim, heiress to the Saxon territories of Nordheim and Brunswick-Lüneburg. He founded Munich (1157/58), Lübeck (1159),Stade, Lüneburg and Brunswick, the capital of his principality, where ...
By William E. Welsh. Duke Henry the Lion, the ruler of Saxony and Bavaria, seethed with rage. The pagan Wends had rebelled once more against their Saxon overlords. Led by a warlord named Pribyslav, they had launched a lightning raid in February 1162 against the Saxon frontier town of Mecklenburg.
