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1 day ago · Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of Western Central Europe, and was the first recognized emperor to rule in the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Charlemagne's rule saw a program of political and social changes that had a lasting impact on Europe in the Middle Ages.
- Bust of Charlemagne
Charity stamp of Deutsche Bundespost, 1988. The Bust of...
- Pepin The Short
Pepin the Short (Latin: Pipinus; French: Pépin le Bref; c....
- Charlemagne (Disambiguation)
Charlemagne (742/747–814) was King of the Franks from 768 to...
- Desiderata
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- Great Schism of 1054
Disunion in the Roman Empire contributed to disunion in the...
- Hildegard of Vinzgouw
Hildegard (c. 757/758 – 30 April 783) was a Frankish queen...
- Charles The Younger
Charles was designated as the heir of the bulk of...
- Massacre of Verden
Nelson says that the method of mass execution—decollatio,...
- Bertrada of Laon
Bertrada of Laon (born between 710 and 727 – 12 July 783),...
- Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the...
- Bust of Charlemagne
1 day ago · The latter territories lay within the Holy Roman Empire and its borders, but were formally divided between fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire and French fiefs such as Charles's birthplace of Flanders, the last remnant of the Burgundian State, a powerful player in the Hundred Years' War. Since he was a minor, his aunt Margaret of Austria acted as ...
- 28 June 1519 –, 27 August 1556
- Philip I of Castile
- 22 September 1558, El Escorial, Spain
- Catholicism
2 days ago · It was unclear whether the Papal States were a separate realm with the Pope as their sovereign ruler, or a part of the Frankish Empire over which the popes had administrative control, as suggested in the late-9th-century treatise Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma, or whether the Holy Roman emperors were vicars of the Pope ruling ...
- Parliament (1848)
Mar 22, 2024 · Heinz Lieberich. Louis IV was the duke of Upper Bavaria (from 1294) and of united Bavaria (1340–47), German king (from 1314), and Holy Roman emperor (1328–47), first of the Wittelsbach line of German emperors. His reign was marked by incessant diplomatic and military struggles to defend the right of the empire to.
- Heinz Lieberich
Mar 26, 2024 · Maximilian II (born July 31, 1527, Vienna, Austria—died Oct. 12, 1576, Regensburg [Germany]) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1564, whose liberal religious policies permitted an interval of peace between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany after the first struggles of the Reformation. A humanist and patron of the arts, he largely failed ...
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Apr 7, 2024 · 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.
Mar 26, 2024 · Counter-Reformation. Matthias (born Feb. 24, 1557, Vienna—died March 20, 1619, Vienna) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1612, who, in a reversal of the policy of his father, Maximilian II, sponsored a Catholic revival in the Habsburg domains that, despite his moderating influence, eventually led to the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War.
