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  Albert the Bold Wettin. Who is Albert the Bold Wettin? What is Albert the Bold Wettin? Where is Albert the Bold ...
Albert the Bold Wettin Duke of Saxony was born 1443.
List of Dukes, Electors, and Kings of Saxony
List of Dukes and Electors of Saxony
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 Holy Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The pope's crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor in 800 formed the example that later kings would follow: it was the result of Charlemagne having defended the pope against the rebellious inhabitants of Rome, which initiated the notion of the Reich being the protector of the church.
After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family (Hausmacht): Louis IV of Wittelsbach (king 1314, emperor 1328–1347) relied on his lands in Bavaria; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.
When Frederick III needed the dukes to finance war against Hungary in 1486 and at the same time had his son, later Maximilian I elected king, he was presented with the dukes' united demand to participate in an Imperial Court.
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 GENEALOGY - LoveToKnow Article on GENEALOGY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Every case has to be judged upon its own merits, and due allowance must be made both for the ambition of the weaker to claim or to strengthen an alliance with the stronger, and for the not unnatural desire of clans or individuals to magnify the greatness of their ancestry.
The succession of kings and princes are in the chronicle book; the line of the founders and patrons of abbeys are recorded by the monks with curious embellishment of legend.
Lists of pedigrees in English printed works are supplied by Marshalls Genealogists Guide (1903), while pedigrees in the manuscript collections of the British Museum are indexed in the list of R. Sims (1849).
98.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GE/GENEALOGY.htm   (6487 words)

  
 Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 10th century the dukes of Saxony were at the same time kings (or emperors) of the Holy Roman Empire (Ottonian or Saxon Dynasty).
The remaining Eastern lands, together with the title of Duke of Saxony, were passed to an Ascanian dynasty (who descended from Eilika Billung, Wulfhild's younger sister) and divided in 1260 into the two small states of Saxony-Lauenburg and Saxony-Wittenberg.
The remaining Saxon state became even more powerful, becoming known in the 18th century for its cultural achievements, although it was politically inferior to Prussia and Austria, which pressed Saxony from either side.
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 Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
Dukes of Brunswick, Electors & Kings of Hanover
Although no line of German Emperors was ever associated with it, it was the source of much opposition to the Emperors, especially in the form of the Welf Dukes of the 12th and early 13th centuries.
A younger son of Christian IX of Denmark became King of Greece as George I. King George's grandson is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of the Queen Elizabeth II of England.
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 Carolingian - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of Austrasia, was succeeded by his son Charles Martel as Mayor, who in turn was the father of Pippin III, called "the Short".
Charlemagne, Pippin's son, became King of the Franks in 768 and was crowned Emperor by
In the West, which was the nucleus of later France, they continued to be the ruling dynasty until a minor branch of the family, the Capetians, ascended the (by that time) French throne in 987.
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 FRANCIA
Dukes & Kings of Bohemia, Hungary, & Poland
The Emperor Charles IV was still formally crowned as King of Burgundy at Arles in 1365.
Henry of Guise was of the house of Anjou and Lorraine, descendants of King John II of France.
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 physics - Carolingian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pippin had become king after having used his position as Mayor to garner support among many of the leading Franks, as well as Pope Zacharias, in order to depose the last Merovingian king, Childeric in 751.
Charlemagne, Pippin's son, became King of the Franks in 768 and was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in 800.
In the Middle, with the empty title of "Emperor" and the kingdom of Lotharingia which included Northern Italy, the major branch of the family ruled till 887, but further division was based on the Treaty of Mersen in 870.
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 Italy
It was the invasion of Italy by the French King Charles VIII in 1494 that disrupted the rule of the Medici.
Alessandro was appointed regent of the Netherlands by King Philip II of Spain at the height of the Dutch revolt.
The list of Kings of Sardinia is given under the periphery of Francia, because that is really where Sardinia belongs, since it was long a possession of Romania, Islâm, and then Aragón.
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 Robert Filmer: Patriarcha (1680)
This desperate assertion whereby kings are made subject to the censures and deprivations of their subjects follows — as the authors of it conceive — as a necessary consequence of that former position of the supposed natural equality and freedom of mankind, and liberty to choose what form of government it please.
It skills not which way kings come by their power, whether by election, donation, succession, or by any other means; for it is still the manner of the government by supreme power that makes them properly kings, and not the means of obtaining their crowns.
The parliament is the king's court, for so all the oldest statutes called it, "the king in his parliament." But neither of the two Houses are that supreme court, nor yet both of them together; they are only members and a part of the body whereof the king is the head and ruler.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bishop
The Emperor Constantine often permitted all Christians to carry their lawsuits before the bishop, but this right was withdrawn at the end of the fourth century.
Undoubtedly, the Christian Roman emperors sometimes intervened in these election, but outside the imperial cities only, and generally in the case of disagreement as to the proper person.
This interference of princes and emperors lasted until the quarrel about Investitures, which was especially violent in Germany, where from the ninth to the eleventh centuries abbots and bishops had become real temporal princes.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02581b.htm   (8573 words)

  
 HRE Emperor List
List of kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire
The Dukes (Latin: dux meaning leader) of the German tribes (Staemme, stems) elected one of their own as king.
Henry VII of Luxemburg, king 1308-1312, emperor 1312-1313
faculty.ucc.edu /egh-damerow/hre_emperor_list.htm   (155 words)

  
 RUSSIAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on RUSSIAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the time of this emperor also was issued the Sloglav (155,), a body of ecclesiastical regulations.
Professor B. Kliuchevskiy, of the university of Moscow, published in 1883 a valuable book on the Russian Duma, as the privy council of the emperors was called, and in 1899 he issued his Aids to Lectures on Russian History.
Russian writers have not often devoted themselves to the political and social conditions of other countries, but an exception must be made in the case of the books by Professor Vinogradov, formerly of Moscow, notably his Investigations into the Social History of England in the Middle Ages (1887).
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 Category:Monarchs - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
List of monarchs deposed in the 18th century
List of monarchs deposed in the 19th century
List of monarchs who lost their thrones or abdicated in the 20th century
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 physics - Holy Roman Empire
Emperors from Charlemagne (died 814) to Otto I the Great (Emperor 962–973) had simply used the phrase Imperator Augustus ("August Emperor").
German kings had been elected since time immemorial; in the 9th century by the leaders of the five most important tribes (the Franks, Saxons, Bavarians, Swabians and Thuringians), later by the main lay and clerical dukes of the kingdom, finally only by the so-called Kurfürsten (electing dukes).
The Empire was formally dissolved on August 6, 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) resigned.
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1556-1564: FERDINAND I (Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Bohemia, Croatia and Hungary)
1657-1705: LEOPOLD I (Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Bohemia, Croatia and Hungary)
Castle (Schloss; the residence of dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1726-1918).
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 Introduction to World Statesmen
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They belong either to the Saddozay segment of the Popalzay clan (typically with the style padshah [king]) or to the Mohammadzay segment of the Barakzay clan (typically with the style amir, in full Amir al-Mo´menin [Leader of the Faithful], which is also the style of the current Taliban leader).
Roman Emperors; the term became in effect a kind of senior nobility in and of itself.
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 Manuscripts
It will be seen that the greater number of copyists are monks; at the end of the manuscript they often place their signature and the name of their monaster.
At this juncture kings and princes began to develop a taste for books and to form libraries; that of St. Louis was one of the earliest.
1467), the dukes of Burgandy, the kings of Naples, and Matthias Corvinus.
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 Research Resources - Barony of Settmour Swamp
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A listing of Emperors, Popes, Kings, Dukes, Counts, Princes, and Doges of Venice.
Life of King Edward the Confessor - illustrations from c.1250 manuscript
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 Brimstones
English Dialogues of the Dead: A Critical History, an Anthology, and a Check List
Eton College Lists, Lent 1909 to Michaelmas 1911
Eton College Lists, Michaelmas 1905 to Michaelmas 1908
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