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	Breslau
		Soon after this the Emperor Otto III and Duke Boleslaw Chrobry, who was then the ruler of the whole of Silesia, founded the Diocese of Breslau, and Breslau, together with the Dioceses of Cracow and Colberg, was placed under the Archdiocese of Gnesen, which was founded by Otto in the year 1000.
		During Walter's episcopate the Polish Duke Ladislaus and his family were driven from home and took refuge in Germany; in 1163 the sons of Ladislaus returned and, through the intervention of Frederick Barbarossa, received as an independent duchy the part of Silesia which was included at that date in the See of Breslau.
		He was made guardian of the youthful Dukes of Breslau, and this appointment, together with the factional disputes, led to the bringing of grave accusations against him.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/breslau.html (6273 words)

	St. Hedwig
		Henry I was an energetic prince, who greatly extended the boundaries of his duchy, established his authority on a firm basis, and rendered important services to civilization in the realm.
		Henry and Hedwig endowed munificently the Cistercian monastery of Leubus, the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Vincent, and the foundation of the Canons of St. Augustine at Breslau.
		Henry was also the founder of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Breslau (1214), and Hedwig tended with disinterested charity the leper women in the hospital at Neumarkt.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/h/hedwig,saint.html (1185 words)

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		BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw), a city of Germany, capital of the Prussian province of Silesia, and an episcopal see, situated in a wide and fertile plain on both banks of the navigable Oder, 350 M. from its mouth, at the influx of the Ohle, and 202 M. from Berlin on the railway to Vienna.
		The cathedral, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was begun in 1148 and completed at the close of the 15th century, enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries, and restored between 1873 and 1875; it is rich in notable treasures, especially the high altar of beaten silver, and in beautiful paintings and sculptures.
		In March 1813 this monarch issued from Breslau his stirring appeals to the Prussians, An mein Volk and An mein Kriegesheer, and the city was the centre of the Prussian preparations for the campaign which ended at Leipzig.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=11006 (1239 words)

	Otto of Nordheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He conspired with Anno, Archbishop of Cologne, to seize Henry IV in 1062, led a successful expedition into Hungary in 1063, and took a prominent part in the Empire's government during the king's minority.
		The duke asked for a safe-conduct to and from the place of meeting, and when this was refused he declined to appear and was consequently deprived of Bavaria, while his Saxon estates were plundered.
		After the excommunication of Henry IV in 1076 Otto attempted to mediate between Henry and the Saxons, but when these efforts failed he again placed himself at their head.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_of_Nordheim (496 words)

	Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland united two of the original provinces and was crowned in 1295, but was murdered in 1296.
		In 1335 Duke Henry VI of Breslau and the Upper Silesian dukes recognized the overlordship of King John I of Bohemia, while in 1348 King Casimir III of Poland was forced to accept Bohemian control of most of Silesia.
		In 1537 the Piast Duke Frederick II of Brzeg/Brieg concluded a treaty with Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, whereby the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg would inherit the duchy upon the extinction of the Piasts, but the treaty was rejected by Ferdinand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silesia (3432 words)

	Hotel Henri Iv
		Henry, however, had a rather more equivocal relationship with Richard: they were first cousins and childhood playmates, and were admitted together to the Order of the Garter in 1377, but Henry participated in the Lords Appellant’s rebellion against the King in 1387.
		Henry IV was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
		Henry IV was the 9th cousin of King Henry II, and the 9th cousin once removed of kings Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/92/hotel-henri-iv.html (1331 words)

	Conrad II - LoveToKnow 1911
		Conrad then travelled through his dominions, received tribute from tribes dwelling east of Saxony, and by his journey "bound the kingdom most firmly in the bond of peace, and the kingly protection." His position, however, was full of difficulty, and the various elements of discontent tended to unite.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Conrad_II (1149 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SILESIA: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Breslau there were three synagogues, located in different parts of the city; the oldest existing synagogue dates back to the fourteenth century, and is situated in the present Ursalinerstrasse; another was located in the Röhrgasse, and was mentioned as early as 1349, when it was known as the Neue Judenschul.
		The Jews of Breslau had in the meantime prospered; they were granted anew the use of the Ohlau cemetery, and they had reorganized their community after the pattern of that of Schweidnitz.
		In 1701 a Jew of Breslau was requested to report as to whether the Jews at any time had had a public synagogue in the city, and as to whether their prayers contained any blasphemy against Jesus.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=712&letter=S&search=breslau (2357 words)

	Ivasioni Mongol i Europes. - Forumi Shqiptar
		Henry feared that the Tartars who ravaged his country might be reinforced if he waited too long for Wenceslas' arrival, so he and his army left the protection of Liegnitz on that April day and advanced toward the town of Jawor, where he reckoned he was most likely to meet up with the Bohemian king.
		Breslau held out, and the Mongol commanders, knowing better than to embroil their small army in a long siege so deep in hostile territory, passed the city by and resumed their search for Duke Henry and his army.
		Duke Henry tried to gallop off the field, but he was run down by Mongols who killed him, cut off his head and paraded about Liegnitz with it on top of a spear as a trophy.
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	Otto Of Nordheim - LoveToKnow 1911
		1083), duke of Bavaria, belonged to the rich and influential Saxon family of the counts of Nordheim, and having distinguished himself in war and peace alike, received the duchy of Bavaria from Agnes, widow of the emperor Henry III., in 1061.
		In 1062 he assisted Anno, archbishop of Cologne, to seize the person of the German king, Henry IV.; led a successful expedition into Hungary in 1063; and took a prominent part in the government during the king's minority.
		His repeated pardon showed that Henry could not afford to neglect such a powerful personality, and his military talents were repeatedly displayed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Otto_Of_Nordheim (494 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg176 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Henry VI King Of ENGLAND [Parents] was born on 6 Dec 1421 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
		Ladislas IV King Of HUNGARY was born in 1259 in Of, Buda, Pest, Hungary.
		Henry V King Of ENGLAND was born on 9 Aug 1387.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg176.htm (1508 words)

	Piast dynasty
		The name Piast Dynasty came into existence in the 17th century for a number of rulers, who governed as dukes of Poland and of Silesia.
		A few, such as Boleslaus I, who in 1024 declared himself king upon the death of Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor, sought to circumvent suzerainty of the empire.
		Henry I the Bearded Henryk I Brodaty 1232-1238
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Piast_dynasty.html (134 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pieta
		He fought for Henry IV against Owen Glendower in Wales and the Percys at Shrewsbury (1403).
		He fought for Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV against Pope Gregory VII and against Rudolf of Swabia and was rewarded (c.1082) with the duchy of Lower Lorraine, which he claimed through his mother.
		Henry II HENRY II [Henry II] 973-1024, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24) and German king (1002-24), last of the Saxon line.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pieta&StartAt=21 (587 words)

	c. Poland. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The new emperor, Henry II, carried on long wars against Boleslav and ultimately forced the abandonment of Bohemia and Lusatia (1005).
		He resigned the royal title and attempted to secure peace by supporting the Emperor Henry IV, as well as by courting the nobility and clergy.
		Boleslav IV, an ineffectual ruler, during whose reign the Germans, under Albert the Bear and Henry the Lion, supported by Waldemar of Denmark, drove back the Poles from the entire territory along the Baltic and west of the Vistula (1147).
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	The History of the Devil: The Inquisition
		When the young Duke on his return was informed of the terrible death of his beloved Agnes he swore vengeance, and in alliance with his cousin Duke Ludwig of Bavaria-Ingolstadt, began to wage a vigorous war against his own father.
		Duke Ernest built a chapel over the grave of his innocent victim and had an annual mass read over her for the welfare of her soul.
		Duke Albrecht thereupon agreed to marry Anna, Princess of Brunswick, by whom he had ten children, although it cannot be said that his married life was a happy one.
	englishatheist.org /evil/hod16.htm (5633 words)

	Wikinfo \| Early history of Poland (until 1385) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lands under Duke Mieszko's rule including lands kept as vassal of the emperor and as margrave encompassed Greater Poland, Lesser Poland,Masovia, Silesia and Pomerania.
		Mieszko I married Dubrawka, daughter of the Czech duke Boleslav I and was baptised into the Roman branch of Christianity in 966.
		The authority of the Duke of Cracow was not adequately defined by law and was ignored in actual practice.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Early_history_of_Poland_(until_1385) (4057 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Henry triumphed and established himself at Cracow, but he was kidnapped during Mass and taken by Conrad to Plock.
		Two of her sons dishonored the family name by engaging in fratricidal wars, and another son, Henry the Pious who succeeded his father, was killed in 1241 by the Tartars at the battle of Liegnitz.
		The policies and foundations of Duke Henry and Saint Hedwig were important in Silesian history through the increase of German influence they brought to the country (Attwater).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1016.htm (3559 words)

	St. Hedwiges
		The father of this saint was Bertold III of Andechs, Marquis of Meran, Count of Tirol, and Prince (or Duke) of Carinthia and Istria, as he is styled in the Chronicle of Andechs and in the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.[1] Her mother was Agnes, daughter of the Count of Rotletchs.
		She was placed very young in the monastery of Lutzingen, in Franconia, and only taken thence when twelve years old to marry Henry, Duke of Silesia, descended of the Dukes of Glogau, in that country; to which match she only consented out of compliance with the will of her parents.
		Continuing their march into Silesia, they laid siege to the citadel of Breslau, which was protected by the prayers of St. Ceslas, or Cieslas, prior of the Dominicans there, and the barbarians, terrified by a globe of fire which fell from the heavens upon their camp, retired towards Legnitz.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/STHEDWIG.htm (2130 words)

	Wyclif, John
		While the Reformer offered reassurances, in the explanations which he necessarily gave later, that it was not his purpose to incite temporal lords to confiscation of the property of the Church, the real tendencies of the propositions remained unconcealed.
		Lancaster, the earl marshal Henry Percy, and a number of other friends accompanied Wyclif, and four begging friars were his advocates, who were whole-hearted in a matter which affected the question of the ideal of poverty.
		A contemporary historian-- for Henry Knighton may be designated as such-- says of him that in philosophy he was reputed second to none, and in scholastic discipline incomparable.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/ii.xxvi.xxii.htm (11599 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Military History \| Mongol Invasions: Battle of Liegnitz
		Henry's army was the last left to oppose the Tartars in Poland.
		While King Boleslav V of Kraków was legally the pre-eminent ruler, it was in fact his cousin, Duke Henry II of Silesia, who was the most powerful of the four lords.
		Therefore, when Henry reached a plain surrounded by low hills not far from Liegnitz, called the Wahlstadt, or "chosen place," he found the Tartars already there, waiting for him.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/military_history/3037536.html (1464 words)

	Wikinfo \| Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1146, senior duke Wladislaw II acknowledged the overlordship of the Holy Roman Empire over Poland, but was driven into exile.
		From around 1210 Henry I the Bearded, duke of Lower Silesia, and his wife Hedwig of Andechs invited the Knights Templar and other religious orders, many of them from what is now Germany, to settle the land.
		In 1335, Duke Henry VI of Wroclaw and the Upper Silesian dukes recognized the overlordship of the king of Bohemia (John of Luxemburg).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Silesia (1752 words)

	BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw) - Online Information article about BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Breslau is exceedingly rich in fine monuments; the most noteworthy being the equestrian statues of See also:
		Empire in 1290.1 When Henry VI., the last duke of Breslau, died in 1335, the city came by See also:
		War, Breslau was compelled to own the authority of Frederick the Great in 1741.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BOS_BRI/BRESLAU_Polish_Wraclaw_.html (2106 words)

	The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia
		Henry of Navarre ascended the throne 1589 as Henry IV; became RC 1593.
		Signed March 18, 1558, by Elector Otto Henry (Ottheinrich) of the Palatinate, Elector Augustus I of Saxony, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken, Duke Christopher of Württemberg, and Philip* of Hesse.
		Son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia; as Frederick III, duke of Swabia; king of Ger.
	www.lcms.org /ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=f&t2=r (5171 words)

	The Catholic Revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is often stated that Henry IV converted to Catholicism out of mere political expediency in order to become King of France.
		In this context, the epigram is often cited, “Paris is well worth a Mass.” However, Henry IV did take great interest in the theological controversies between Catholics and Protestants and it may at least be said that he thought it necessary to find theological justification for his conversion.
		Ives was the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina for the Protestant Episcopal Church when he converted to Catholicism in 1852.
	www.stu.lmu.edu /wbeutel/write/convert.htm (17058 words)

	[No title]
		The invading troops of William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Saxon forces of Harold, King of England, at the Battle of Hastings, in Southeastern England.
		The English Duke of Clarence, brother of King Henry V, heir to the English throne, and leader of the English government in France, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Bauge, near Angers, in France, by a combined force of French and Scottish soldiers.
		Henry VI was imprisoned, was briefly restored to his throne by the Earl of Warwick ("Warwick the Kingmaker") in 1470, but was again captured, imprisoned, and probably murdered in the Tower of London in April,1471.
	www.cascom.army.mil /History/historyadd.asp (7738 words)

	Hesse Gremany, Hessen Germany, History, Genealogy, Family History, Hessen Deutschland. Hessians.
		With Henry Raspe, the brother-in-law of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, the male line of the Thuringian landgraves became extinct in 1247, whereupon the Hessians chose Henry of Brabant, Elizabeth’s grandson, as their landgrave.
		In 1806 Louis received the title of Grand Duke (Louis I); at the Congress of Vienna he received in compensation for the Duchy of Westphalia, which fell to Prussia, the old ecclesiastical and palatinate lands on the left bank of the Rhine together with the towns Mainz and Worms.
		It was only under Grand Duke Louis IV (1877-92) and during the Finger ministry, that the church laws were revised, and those of 1875 modified.
	www.usgennet.org /de/topic/ddgn/hessen/hessen-catholic.html (2445 words)

	boys clothing: Hessian royalty--Prince Alexander of Hesse
		She was the daughter of Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice.
		Prince Henry found an unexpected ally in the Princess of Wales who was not normally fond of Germans, even members of the family.
		Prince Henry participated as a volunteer in the Ashanti Expeditionary Force to Sierra Leone where he contracted malaria.
	histclo.com /royal/gers/hesse/rgshd-l2alex.htm (1020 words)

	Timeline 1200 to 1299
		1218 Simon IV de Montfort (b.1160), Norman knight and leader of the crusade against the Albigenses (1202-1204), died at the siege of Toulouse.
		King Henry III was captured by his brother in law Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Lewes in England.
		1268 Oct 19, Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, was beheaded.
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