„Textura – Telling History“ Content card: „Middle Ages - Reign“
• the oldest known dynasty 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 Empire, 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 Charlemagne
• highest nobility who ruled over states of the Holy Roman Empire • 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 Rhine 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 translatio imperii 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 Italy to lift his excommunication by the Pope • was a culmination of the Investiture controversy Road to Canossa
• 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 Rome 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- Catholic Church • 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 Germany • conquered and evangelized by Charlemagne in the so-called „Saxon Wars“ Saxons
• September 23, 1122 • agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V • ended the Investiture controversy
Concordat of Worms
• signed in August 843 • divided the Carolingian Empire into 3 kingdoms among the 3 surviving sons of Louis the Pious, grandchildren of Charlemagne • Lothair I (Middle Franc.), Louis the German (East Franc.), Charles the Bold Treaty of Verdun (West Francia)
• Frankish family in the Empire • provided four Kings (1024–1125)
Salian dynasty
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