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  Henry Of Saxony - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1108-1139), surnamed the "Proud," duke of Saxony and Bavaria, second son of Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria, and Wulfhild, daughter of Magnus Billung, duke of Saxony, was a member of the Welf family.
Having distinguished himself by his military genius during this campaign Henry left Italy with the German troops, and was appointed by the emperor as his successor in the dukedom of Saxony.
Attempts at a settlement failed, and in July 1138 the duke was placed under the ban, and Saxony was given to Albert the Bear, afterwards margrave of Brandenburg.
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 1100 - 1199
Henry II argues with the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a' Becket, and attempts to decree that priest accused of crimes should be charged by royal courts.
Henry the Lion is again excelled by Frederick I. Frederick I of the Holy Roman Empire (called Frederick Barbarossa) initiates the Third Crusade, handing the Holy Roman Empire to his son, Henry (later Henry VI of the Holy Roman Empire).
Henry (later Henry VI of the Holy Roman Empire) squashes a rebellion of nobles led by Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony.
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 Ancestors and Family of Henry IV of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After negotiations with Welf IV, the new duke (as Welf I) of Bavaria, and with Rudolf, the duke of Swabia, Henry was forced to grant immunity to the rebels in 1073 and had to agree to the razing of the royal Harz Castle in the final peace treaty in February 1074.
Henry married Bertha of Savoy, daughter of Otto of Savoy and Adelheid of Susa, on 13 Jul 1066.
Henry's second marriage (1089-93) was to Eupraxia of Kiev, the daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev.
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 Frederick I Barbarossa (c. 1123-1190)
Frederick was the son of Frederick II, duke of Swabia, and Judith, daughter of Henry IX, duke of Bavaria, of the rival dynasty of the Welfs.
Because of friction between Louis VII and Henry II of England and because the latter was embroiled in an argument with Thomas Becket, Barbarossa decided to form an alliance with Henry II.
Barbarossa elevated the princes of Pomerania to dukes, and the counts of Andechs became the dukes of Merania (in the neighbourhood of Trieste).
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 Conrad II - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Boleslaus, duke of the Poles, took the title of king, and assumed a threatening attitude; Rudolph III., king of Burgundy or Arles, who had arranged that the emperor Henry II.
The emperor's presence was soon needed in the east, where Mesislaus, duke of the Poles, and Stephen I., king of Hungary, were ravaging the borders of Germany.
In 1030 Ernest of Swabia was killed in battle; and in September 1032 the king of Burgundy died, and his kingdom was at once seized by his nephew Odo, count of Champagne.
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 Ancestors and Family of Matilda of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The original plan to match a daughter of Henry II with a son of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor was abandoned, and instead Matilda left England in September 1167 to marry Henry the Lion.
Matilda married Henry III the Lion of Saxony, son of Henry IV the Proud of Brunswick and Gertrude of Saxony, on 1 Feb 1168 in Minden Cathedral, Saxony, Germany.
(Henry III the Lion of Saxony was born in 1129, died on 6 Aug 1195 in Brunswick, Saxony and was buried in Cathedral of St. Blasius, Brunswick.)
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 1000 - 1100
Robert II of France (the Pious) submits to the Pope and marries the daughter of the marquis of Provence, Constance of Arles.
Henry II of The Holy Roman Empire (called Henry the Saint) dies and is succeeded by Conrad II.
Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire convokes a Germany council to dispose of Pope Gregory VII.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Henry II
German King and Holy Roman Emperor, son of Duke Henry II (the Quarrelsome) and of the Burgundian Princess Gisela; b.
The lord of that country was Rudolph, who, to protect himself against his vassals, joined the party of Henry II, the son of his sister, Gisela, and to Henry the childless duke bequeathed his duchy, despite the opposition of the nobles (1006).
Henry's power was in fact controlling, and this was in no small degree due to the fact that he was primarily engaged in solidifying the national foundations of his authority.
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 33rd Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ernst von Ostmark, Margrave of Austria "The Valiant" was born 1024 in Tulin, Bundesland Niederösterreich, Austria.
BIOGRAPHY: Henry III was the duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI, from 1027 to 1041), duke of Swabia (as Henry I, from 1038 to 1045), German king (from 1039), and Holy Roman emperor (from 1046 to 1056).
Henry was the son of the emperor Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia.
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 Henry X, Duke of Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria, and Wulfhild, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony, and thus a member of the Welf family, and, what was quite important, senior heir of the Billung family.
After the marriage, Henry took part in the warfare between the king and the Hohenstaufen brothers, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (who was Henry's brother-in-law, having been married with his sister Judith), and Conrad, Duke of Franconia, afterwards the German king Conrad III.
Henry's duchy of Bavaria was given to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria, a half-brother of the new king Conrad.
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 Europe's 12th-Century Development by Sanderson Beck
Henry I promised to replace his brother's unjust practices in regard to reliefs paid by vassals to the king, wardships, marriages, and murder fines with smooth and orderly justice, and he invited Anselm to return from exile.
Henry agreed that no one should be invested as a bishop or abbot in England by the king or any lay authority, and Anselm conceded that no one should be deprived of consecration because of having done homage to the king.
However, Henry the Proud's son Heinrich the Lion accompanied Friedrich to Italy and was rewarded for his bravery by being recognized as duke of Bavaria and Saxony, though in 1156 Henry Jasomirgott was placated with part of Bavaria that became the duchy of Austria.
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 Henry the Lion — FactMonster.com
Henry the Lion, 1129–95, duke of Saxony (1142–80) and of Bavaria (1156–80); son of
Henry demanded the imperial city of Goslar in exchange for military support, but Frederick refused, was defeated, and was forced to make peace with the pope.
Conrad III, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire - Conrad III, c.1093–1152, German king (1138–52), son of Frederick, duke of Swabia, and...
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 ipedia.com: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph, Frederick descended from Germany's two principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to the Imperial crown.
In 1147 Frederick became duke of Swabia and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanied his uncle, the German king Conrad III on the Second Crusade.
Bavaria was transferred from Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, who became duke of Austria in compensation, to Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony.
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 boys clothing: European royalty -- German states Swabia
Swabia was named after the Suevi which was one of the names for the Alemanni, the Geraman tribes which occupied the area in the 3rd century.
Swabia was named after the Suevi which was one of the names for the Alemanni, the German tribes which occupied the area in the 3rd century.
Swabia remained a part of the Frankish Empire until the Empire was divided among the sons of Pepin (grandsons of Charlemagne) during the 9th century..
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 Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Twelfth Century
Henry V is crown Emperor after having taken Pope Paschal II prisoner and obtaining permission from the Pontiff to practice lay investiture, which Pope Paschall II had previously condemned.
It was preached by William, Archbishop of Tyre and led by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa; Philip II of France; and Richard the Lion-Heart of England.
Henry VI, the son of Frederick Barbarossa, the reigning Holy Roman Emperor, invades Sicily and is crowned the Island’s King.
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 Henry, III Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry III (1017-1056) was Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany from 1039 to 1056.
He was made Duke of Swabia in 1038, and on the death of his father the following year he succeeded as emperor.
It was Henry III, therefore, who unwittingly laid the foundations of a papal reform with which his successors had to cope.
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 1004: The year 1004 - events and people France England
Minted in Metz by Thierry II, brother in law of Henry II and archbishop of Metz.
King and Holy Roman Emperor, son of Duke Henry II (the Quarrelsome) and of the Burgundian Princess Gisela; b.
Died 1004: Garcia Sanchez II of Navarre, Pomplona and Argon.
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 Henry, IV Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry IV (1050-1106) was Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany from 1056 to 1106.
Henry attempted, initially, to reassert his father's old imperial rights throughout the empire and also to build up a new, strong imperial domain in Saxony.
Henry also had much trouble due to opposition to his rule in both Germany and Italy, especially from his eldest son, Conrad, and from Duke Welf of Bavaria and Countess Matilda of Tuscany.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Victor II
His parents were Count Hartwig and Countess Baliza; the Emperor Henry III recognized him as a collateral kinsman, and he was a nephew of Bishop Gebhard III of Ratisbon, who at the court Diet of Goslar presented him (Christmas Day, 1042) to Henry III as a candidate for the episcopal see of Eichstatt.
He was in the emperor's retinue when the latter was crwned at Rome in 1046; he took part in the synod presided over by Leo IX at Mainz in October, 1049, and in the consultations between the pope and the emperor at Ratisbon and Bamberg in 1052.
Victor II was a worthy successor of Leo IX.
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 Otto II
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the son of the emperor Otto the Great, by his second wife Adelaide.
In 976 Otto deposed Duke Henry, restored order for the second time in Lorraine, and made another expedition into Bohemia in 977, when King Boleslaus II promised to return to his earlier allegiance.
Having crushed an attempt made by Henry to regain Bavaria, Otto was suddenly attacked by Lothair, king of France, who held Aix in his possession for a few days; but when the emperor retaliated by invading France he met with little resistance.
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 Otto IV
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, second son of Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, and Matilda, daughter of Henry II, king of England, was most probably born at Argenton in central France.
When the emperor Henry VI died in September 1197, some of the princes under the leadership of Adolph, archbishop of Cologne, were anxious to find a rival to Philip, duke of Swabia, who had been elected German king.
Many of the supporters of Philip now made overtures to Otto, and an attempt to set up Henry I duke of Brabant having failed, Otto submitted to a fresh election and was chosen German king at Frankfurt on the 11th of November 1208 in the presence of a large gathering of princes.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Parents: Phillipp II King Of GERMANY [DUKE OF SWABIA and TUSCANY] and Irini Maria Princess Of The BYZANTINE EMPIRE [EMPRESS OF GERMANY].
Phillipp II King Of GERMANY [DUKE OF SWABIA and TUSCANY] was born in 1176 in Swabia, Germany.
Parents: Wladislav II "The Exile" Duke Of POLAND AND SILESIA and Agnes Princess Of AUSTRIA.
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 Henry II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry II of Germany (972-1024), Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II, King of Jerusalem (died 1324), also Henry II of Cyprus
Henry II of Poland (Duke of Wroclaw) (died 1246)
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 Henry the Lion — Infoplease.com
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Henry II goes out like a lion; He left Ford at 65 but stayed active on the board.(Ford 100)(Brief Article)
"A Plague of All Cowards:" "Macomber" and Henry IV.
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 30TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
HENRY VI (Ceasar) Hohenstauffen of GERMANY HR Emperor was born in 1165 in Stauffen Castle - son of Fdk Barbarossa.
Frederick Duke of SWABIA was born in 1168 in Germany - son of Fdk Barbarossa.
He died in 1191 in Swabia - Duke from 1168.
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 Mighty Monarchs VI (Austria) quiz -- free game
This Duke was insulted by Richard I, the Lionheart, King of England, during the last days of the Third Crusade's siege of Acre (Jun 1191 AD).
The leadership of the German contingents had fallen on him after the deaths of Frederick I, Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, and his son, Frederick, Duke of Swabia, in 1190 AD and 1191 AD respectively.
Upon the death of Duke Frederick II, the Fighter, in 1246 AD, the Babenberg dynasty ended and direct imperial control over the Duchy was imposed by this Holy Roman Emperor.
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 Friedrich I, 'Barbarossa' Holy_Roman_Empir (1122 - 10 Jun 1190)
Frederick I (Holy Roman Empire), called Frederick Barbarossa (1123?-90), Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany (1152-90), king of Italy (1155-90), and as Frederick III, duke of Swabia (1147-52, 1167-68).
He was born in Waiblingen, the son of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia (1090-1147), and the nephew of Conrad III, king of Germany.
His own power as emperor in Germany was firmly established in 1180, when he ended his long struggle with the Welfs by putting down a revolt led by the Welf Henry the Lion and depriving him of most of his lands.
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 Sly's Eleventh Century Time Line
Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire tries to dispose of Pope Gregory VI: German Civil War erupts
Duncan II killed in a revolt and Donald III becomes king again.
Robert II duke of Normandy morgages Normandy to William II of England to finance crusade.
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