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King of Germany r. 1087–1098: Henry V 1086–1125 King of Germany r. 1099–1125 Holy Roman Emperor r. 1111–1125: Matilda of England 1102–1167 Hohenstaufen: Gertrude 1115–1143: Henry X the Proud c. 1108 –1139 Duke of Bavaria: Judith of Bavaria 1103–1131: Frederick II 1090–1147 Duke of Swabia: Agnes of Saarbrücken d. c. 1147 ...
Henry built an extensive system of fortifications and mobile heavy cavalry across Germany to neutralize the Magyar threat and in 933 routed them at the Battle of Riade, ending Magyar attacks for the next 21 years and giving rise to a sense of German nationhood. Henry greatly expanded German hegemony in Europe with his defeat of the Slavs in 929 ...
Rival king to Henry IV; member of the Rheinfeld. Hermann of Salm (Hermann von Salm) 6 August 1081 — 28 September 1088 Rival king to Henry IV; member of the Salm family. Conrad (Konrad) 30 May 1087 — 27 July 1101 Son of Henry IV; King of Germany under his father, 1087–1098, King of Italy, 1093–1098, 1095–1101 in rebellion. Henry V ...
On the news of Henry's death, the Byzantine "German tax" was abolished. [21] [22] When Henry died, he was the most powerful monarch in Christendom, being Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Burgundy, Italy, Sicily, feudal overlord of the Kings of England, Lesser Armenia and Cyprus, and tributary lord of Northern African princes. [23]
Henry (VII) (1211 – 12 February 1242), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Sicily from 1212 until 1217 and King of Germany (formally Rex Romanorum) from 1222 until 1235, as son and king, co-ruler of Emperor Frederick II.
Henry's southern German opponents elected Welf's kinsman, Hermann of Salm, king at a poorly attended assembly early in August. The Saxons only paid homage to Hermann four months later. [223] [236] Henry left Italy for Germany in the autumn of 1081 but returned in February 1082. [237] He laid siege to Rome but could not break the Romans ...
German writers after the Staufen period used variants of the term "Regnum Alemanniae" to indicate the weakened reach of the emperors who now confined themselves mainly to German matters. Anti-king Henry Raspe also described himself as "king of Germany and prince of the Romans". There were also scattered references to a political community of ...
Henry's action marked the first time a German king was not crowned in Aachen Cathedral since Emperor Otto I began the tradition in 936 and the first time a German king assumed the throne without election by the German nobility. Under the regal name of "King Henry II", he appeared before the Saxons in mid-July in full