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1 day ago · Election by seven electors, namely the three archbishops of Mainz, Trier and Cologne, the king of Bohemia, the duke of Saxony, the Count Palatinate on the Rhine and the Margrave of Brandenburg had been standard practice since at least the election of Rudolf von Habsburg, way back in 1273.
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4 days ago · Otto was sent on two major missionary expeditions by Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland, who wanted to bring Pomerania under Polish influence by spreading Christianity.
Rudolf of Rheinfelden ( c. 1025 – 15 October 1080) was Duke of Swabia from 1057 to 1079. Initially a follower of his brother-in-law, the Salian emperor Henry IV, his election as German anti-king in 1077 marked the outbreak of the Great Saxon Revolt and the first phase of open conflict in the Investiture Controversy between Emperor and Papacy.
4 days ago · Austria - Babenberg, Alps, Danube: The first mention of a ruler in the regained territories east of the Enns is of Burchard, who probably was count (burgrave) of Regensburg. It appears that he lost his office as a result of his championship of Henry II the Quarrelsome, duke of Bavaria.
5 days ago · Rudolf, Herzog von Sachsen-Wittenberg ca 1373-1419 possibly 46 years old 2 children
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5 days ago · Leopold I, who had accepted the Belgium throne in 1831, was from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty, which needed to invoke Belgium’s past to lend a sense of legitimacy to the royal line of the newly created country.
5 days ago · Bernard II, Duke of Saxony. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bernard II (c. 995 – 29 June 1059) was the Duke of Saxony (1011 – 1059), the third of the Billung dynasty, a son of Bernard I and Hildegard. He had the rights of a count in Frisia.