„Textura – Telling History“ Content card: „ - Reign“

• the oldest known of the Franks • ruled from the early 5th to the middle of the 8th century

Merovingian dynasty

• issued by the Imperial Diet in 1356 • fixed the structure of the Roman Holy , the role of the king and the prince-electors • in force until 1806

Golden Bull of 1356

• born in 747/748 • in 768 King of the Franks • 25.12.800 Pope Leo III crowned him Imperator Romanorum • died in 814 • had 1 son: Louis the Pious

• highest nobility who ruled over states of the • by the late Middle Ages some became sovereign rulers of an Imperial State that held imperial immediacy within the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire of the Fürsten (princes) German Nation

• The Kings and Emperors in the Holy Roman Empire had no capital but traveled with their family and court • Royal palaces and monasteries were used as accomodation.

Itinerant Court

CC BY SA : Ronald Hild / Daniel Bernsen • collection of Germanic peoples • originated in the lands between the Lower and Middle in the 3rd century AD • Frank means originally „free“, „fierce“ or „bold“

Franks

• conflict between spiritual and secular power about who has the right to appoint clerics • between 1076 and 1122

Investiture controversy

• Frankish noble family • Kings from 751 • name based on the Latin form of the name Karl (Karolus)

Carolingian dynasty

• Saxon noble family • Kings between 919 - 1024 • renewal of the by Otto I

Ottonian dynasty

• Restitutio imperii • The imperial coronation of Charlemagne was seen as the renewal of the old Western Roman Empire; therefore the name „Roman Empire“ • later: „Holy Roman Empire of the German Roman Empire Nation“

CC BY SA : Ronald Hild / Daniel Bernsen • in the year 1077 • trek by the German king Henry IV to to lift his excommunication by the Pope • was a culmination of the Road to

• Term is derived from CAESAR • 800 renewal of the Roman Empire by Charlemagne • patron of the church • the emperor was crowned by the Pope in Emperor

• princes in the empire who had the right to choose the king • starting in the 13th century there were 4 secular and 3 spiritual electors

Prince-electors

• Head of the Roman- • simultaneously Bishop of Rome • also named pontifex or Holy Father

Pope

• Residence of the Pope and place of the coronation of the medieval emperors

Rome

CC BY SA : Ronald Hild / Daniel Bernsen • a west Germanic union of different peoples • lived in the north- western parts of today`s • conquered and evangelized by Charlemagne in the so-called „Saxon Wars“

• September 23, 1122 • agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Henry V • ended the Investiture controversy

Concordat of Worms

• signed in August 843 • divided the into 3 kingdoms among the 3 surviving sons of Louis the Pious, grandchildren of Charlemagne • Lothair I (Middle Franc.), (East Franc.), Charles the Bold Treaty of Verdun (West )

• Frankish family in the Empire • provided four Kings (1024–1125)

Salian dynasty

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