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4 days ago · Otto first entered Italy in 951 and, according to some accounts, was already interested in securing the imperial crown. He campaigned in Italy at the request of Adelaide (Adelheid), the daughter of Rudolph II of Burgundy and widow of the king of Italy, who had been jailed by Berengar II, the king of Italy.
23 hours ago · The Burgundians, the Low Country empire that time forgot. In the Middle Ages, Burgundy was a fabulously wealthy realm that spread over a huge swathe of medieval Europe, eventually seating their power in modern Belgium and the Netherlands. While it has long vanished from the map, it was a cradle for art and architecture, as well as violence and ...
2 days ago · Philip the Handsome[b] (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506. The son of Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor as Maximilian I) and Mary ...
5 days ago · Huizinga’s first example of historical ideals at work in history is Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Charles lived from 10 November 1433 to 05 January 1477, so very late in the Middle Ages, on the cusp of modernity.
3 days ago · Profoundly influenced by the monastic centres of reform in Germany and Burgundy, he turned especially to them for collaborators in the work of rebuilding the battered prestige of the Roman church. He brought to Rome men like the theologian Frederick of Lorraine , Hugo Candidus, and Humbert of Moyenmoutier, who became cardinal-bishop of Silva ...
1 day ago · Children of Otto III. Despite co-rulership between them, they received different parts in the Margraviate to rule (alone or in co-rulership): John III (and then Otto V with Otto VI) received the seat at Salzwedel, from which Otto VI abdicated in 1286; Albert III received a seat in Stargard (which he ruled alone at least from 1284. Otto V the ...
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4 days ago · On July 13, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Henry II, the German king who led and defended Europe’s Roman Empire at the beginning of the first millennium. Henry was born in 973 to Henry the Duke of Bavaria and Princess Gisela of Burgundy in the village of Hildesheim, Bavaria.
