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2 days ago · The Holy Roman Empire was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman emperor. The Russian Tsardom , as inheritor of the Byzantine Empire's Orthodox Christian tradition, counted itself the Third Rome (Constantinople having been the second), in accordance with the concept of translatio imperii . [517]
6 days ago · Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (German: Friedrich I; Italian: Federico I ), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He was crowned King of Italy on 24 April ...
5 days ago · The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches. Until the last decades of the 20th century, the primary theory was provided by Edward Gibbon in The History ...
3 days ago · Holy Roman Emperor r. 996–1002: Cunigunde of Luxembourg c. 975 –1040: Henry II 973–1024 King of Germany r. 1002–1024 Holy Roman Emperor r. 1014–1024: Henry of Speyer 965/970– 989/992: Adelaide of Alsace d. 1039/1046? Liudolf of Lotharingia c. 1000 –1031: Otto II d. 1047 Duke of Swabia: Herman II 995–1056 Archbishop of Cologne ...
Jun 6, 2024 · Anna, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary, also sometimes known as Anna Jagellonica (Buda (now Budapest), Hungary, July 23, 1503 – Prague, Bohemia, January 27, 1547) was, by marriage to Ferdinand I, King of the Romans and later Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of the Romans, and heiress presumptive of the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia.
May 28, 2024 · Lothar II (or III) (born early June 1075—died Dec. 3/4, 1137, Breitenwang, now in Austria) was a German king (1125–37) and Holy Roman emperor (1133–37). He is reckoned as Lothar III by those who count not only Lothar I but also his son Lothar in their numeration of German kings. Lothar II’s election as king in 1125 represented a triumph ...
4 days ago · Philip (born 1178—died June 21, 1208, Bamberg, Ger.) was a German Hohenstaufen king whose rivalry for the crown involved him in a decade of warfare with the Welf Otto IV. The youngest son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip was destined for the church. After being provost of the cathedral at Aachen, he was, in 1190 or ...
