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| | speyer.de | The Salians |
 | | In 1024 the German tribal families elect the Earl of the Worms district, from the Salian family, Konrad II to become German ruler and with the death of his great-grandson, Emperor Henry V, buried in Speyer cathedral in 1125, the male line of a hundred years’ rule of kings and emperors finally dies out. |
 | | The Salian rule forms the high-point of the power of the German medieval emperors and at the same time it is the historical turning-point for the formation of other powers which from now on decide the historical development of Europe. |
 | | Whereas still in 1046 at the Sutri Synod near Rome, Emperor Henry III, as the undisputed ruler, dismisses popes and names new ones, in 1077 his son Henry IV is forced, with the pilgrimage to Canossa, to accept pope and church as as an independent entity. |
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