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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Salian
The two major divisions were the Salian Franks in the north and the Ripuarian Franks in the south.
dynasty of Frankish kings, descended, according to tradition, from Merovech, chief of the Salian Franks, whose son was Childeric I and whose grandson was Clovis I, the founder of the Frankish monarchy.
Restless corpses: `secondary burial' in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties.
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They were Salian kings and from Childeric and his son Clovis descended a royal house called Merovingians, named after Childeric's father Merovech whose birth was atttributed with a supernatural elements.
From the Salland area, the Salian Franks occupied the Rhine delta in the fourth and the fifth centuries and moved further south, with the Belgian city of Tournai becoming the center of their domain.
Clovis, king of the Salian Franks, became the absolute ruler of a Germanic kingdom of mixed Roman-Germanic population in 486.
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The Salian dynasty was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four Germanic Kings (1024-1125), also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia.
The four Salian kings of the dynasty — Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, and Henry V — ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 to 1125, and firmly established their monarchy as a major European power.
Pope Leo IX was a relative of the dynasty as well, since his grandfather Hugo III was the brother of Adelheid, the grandmother of Henry III.
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 East Germany - Salian Dynasty, 1024 - 1125   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After the death of Henry II in 1024, the crown passed to the Salians, a Frankish tribe.
The main Salian accomplishment was the development of a permanent administrative system based on a class of public officials who served the crown.
Salian rule was challenged in 1075 by the Investiture Controversy, a papal-imperial struggle in which Pope Gregory VII demanded that the Salian king Henry IV renounce his rights over the German church.
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 chronology of medieval boys' clothing -- national historical trends Germany dynastic history
he Salian Dynasty under Henry II became involved in thre The Empire was rocked by the Investiture Controversy in the 10th century and the struggle between Emperor Henry II and Pope Gregory VII.
The Salians dynasty dominated Europe of the 11th century until challenged by the Church.
Salian authority was threatened by Pope Gregory VII as part of the Investiture Controversy (1075).
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 Germany - The Salian Dynasty, 1024-1125
The four Salian kings--Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, and Henry V--who ruled Germany as kings from 1024 to 1125, established their monarchy as a major European power.
Their main accomplishment was the development of a permanent administrative system based on a class of public officials answerable to the crown.
A principal reason for the success of the early Salians was their alliance with the church, a policy begun by Otto I, which gave them the material support they needed to subdue rebellious dukes.
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 Merovingian Dynasty - Crystalinks
The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area in parts of present-day France and Germany from the 5th to the 8th century AD.
The Merovingian dynasty owes its name to Merovech (sometimes Latinized as Meroveus or Merovius), leader of the Salian Franks from about 447 to 457, and emerges into wider history with the victories of Childeric I (reigned about 457 - 481) against the Visigoths, Saxons and Alamanni.
At the outset of Merovingian dynasty, the nobles banished Childeric, the father of Clovis, and acclaimed instead a Roman dux, Aegidius.
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 dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Much of European political history was dominated, successively and together, by dynasties such as the Carolingians, the Capetians, the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Stuart, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs.
Until the nineteenth century, it was taken for granted that a legitimate function of a monarch was to aggrandize his dynasty, that is, to increase the territory, wealth and power of family members.
A ruler in a dynasty is sometimes referred to as a dynast, but this term is also used to describe any member of a reigning family who retains succession rights to a throne.
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 History of the Order of the Mero
The Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (OMD) was conceived of and organized in September 2004 by 23 Founder Members whose names denote leadership in the field of genealogy to honor the heritage of the Merovingian Kings, the first of which was
The Franks first appeared as settlers on the lower Rhine in two divisions, the Salians (dwellers by the sea, sal), and the Ripuarians (dwellers by the riverbank, ripa).
century, the Salians were established in the area between the Meuse and the Scheldt as federates of the Roman Empire; the Ripuarians, in the tract between the Rhine and the Meuse.
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 Enlightenment - The Experience Festival
Salian Dynasty is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
In 1055 Henry was betrothed to Bertha of Maurienne, daughter of Count Otto of Savoy.
From the High Middle Ages onwards, the Reich was stamped by a most peculiar coexistence of the Empire with the struggle of the dukes of the local territories to take power away from it.
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 It Was a Good Day for Cohen Salian
The dynasty was founded by Werner of Worms, this evoking the Vere breed of dragons known as "wyvern." I found that the Worm Crest is a green wyvern dragon with two front feet.
The Salians stem from the so-called "Conradines" beginning with Conrad, father of Conrad I, duke of Franconia.
The sister of the latter gave birth to Conrad the Red and the Salian dynasty.
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 The Merovingians, Merovingian Dynasty
The Merovingian Dynasty was a Frankish dynasty considered the first French royal house.
Clovis I was the first important ruler of the Merovingian Dynasty and is considered the founder of the French State.
This is what appears to have happened with the Salian Franks whose Merovingian Kings dominated the region from the fifth century onwards.
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 German Language Courses - German History - Salian Dynasty
When the Saxon line died out in 1024, for the following 100 years kings were chosen from the Salian line, a Frankish tribe related to the Saxons.
It was the kings from this line that ruled during the height of the Empire.
Until this point in time, the Salian line had been so successful due to the alliance they had held with the church, which provided the support required to face the rebellious princes.
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 Historica Germania. Considers the history of Germany from the ancient period ca. 500 AD to the end of World War II.
Saxony Dynasty (919-1024) Frankish and Saxon nobles elect Henry I German king (919-36).
Salian Dynasty (1024-1125) Conrad II, Duke of Franconia, founds Salian Dynasty; elected Holy Roman Emperor (1027-39).
Henry VII of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor (1312-13), founds dynasty that seriously rivals Habsburg from its power base in Bohemia.
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 Nougat of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But as humans are wont, the "easy" way was sought and soon the counts were getting re-appointed, then they were getting their sons appointeded to the very same jobs and then, before you know it, there they were: local ties.
So, under the later German empire of the Saxon and Salian dynasties (919-1125), a further expansion occurred -- the counts palatine were now responsible for general administration and dispensing justice.
Now, along the middle Rhine were lands originally put under imperial control by the Salian dynasty.
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 hisgermany
In addition, the presence of German kings in Italy as emperors soon caused them to come into conflict with the papacy, which did not hesitate to seek allies in Italy or Germany to limit imperial power.
1106-25), the last of the Salian kings, the dukes refused to elect his nephew because they feared that he might restore royal power.
The feud became international in nature when the Welfs sided with the papacy and its allies, most notably the cities of northern Italy, against the imperial ambitions of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty.
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Merovech, king of the Salian Franks (447-) and founder of the Merovingian Dynasty, succeeded (-d.
Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks, allies with the Roman general Aegidus against the Visigoths
Death of Childeric I, king (457-) of the Salian Franks; succeeded (-d.
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 Stephen King of England - Alternative History - A Wikia wiki
She yields her claims on England to Stephen in return for English support of the Salian dynasty and a large bribe.
The Salian dynasty rules Germany, two stem duchies, and the French Duchy of Normandy.
The dominance of the Salian line hinders the initial expansion of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg dynasties.
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 Holy Roman Empire
The on-going struggle between these families and the intervention of the papacy drastically weakened the empire, culminating in the "Age of the Princes" in Germany and the "Great Interregnum" in the Holy Roman Empire.
The House of Habsburg (who derived its name from their castle "Habichtsburg" in Switzerland), was the most illustrious European dynasty.
As a consequence, Vittorio Emanuele was proclaimed King of Italy in 1861; a dynasty that would fall with the end of WW2.
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 chronology of medieval boys' clothing -- national historical trends Germany
The East Frankish kingdom ubder the Salian dynasty by the 11th century was becoming a German kingdom.
After the fall of Rome and the migrations west of the 6th century and 7th centuries, the Germans as begun by the Carolingians became increasingly concerned with the East.
The attraction was the growing German population and the desire for new land.
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 Dukes of Franconia
This king did not appoint a new duke of Franconia, instead the central German region of Franconia was fragmented into several counties and bishoprics, which were subordinated to the German kings directly.
In the western part of Franconia (Rheinfranken) were there several counties that belonged to the Salian dynasty.
Their Franconian territories were 1093 granted as a fief to the palatine count of Aachen, which would evolve into the important German principality of Electoral Palatinate (Kurpfalz).
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 Medieval Germany - Merovingian, Carolingian, Saxon, Salian and Hohenstaufen Dynasty
Clovis, a Salian Frank belonging to a family supposedly descended from a mythical hero named Merovech, became the absolute ruler of a Germanic kingdom of mixed Roman-Germanic population in 486.
The remaining 250 years of the dynasty, however, were marked by internecine struggles and a gradual decline.
The feud became international in nature when the Welfs sided with the papacy and its allies, most notably the cities of northern Italy, against the imperial ambitions of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty.
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 Salian dynasty Information
After the death of the last Saxon king from Ottonian Dynasty in 1024, the crown passed to the Salian dynasty.
The four Salian kings - Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, and Henry V - who ruled the Holy Roman Empire as kings from 1024 to 1125, established their monarchy as a major European power.
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 The Cnh or Notitia Dignitatum: Speyer
This cathedral, also with St. Mary and pope St. Stephanus I as patrons, is the largest Romanesque building in the world and was built by the Salians as their primary church and mausoleum.
But the cathedral was damaged by fires occurring in 1137, 1159, 1450, 1552 and 1689 and many of its possessions were looted or destroyed during invasions, notably in 1552 and 1689.
For example, in the period 950-1125, rulers from the Saxon and Salian dynasties definitely visited Speyer on 34 occasions, for a total of 114 days, and probably on 58 other occasions, each for one day.
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 SALIAN Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database
The Salian Dynasty was a dynasty of Kings of Germany, but also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia.
The four Salian kings - Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, and Henry V - who ruled Germany as kings from 1024 to 1125, established their monarchy as a major European power.
However, he resumed the practice of lay investiture (appointment of religious officials by civil authorities) and arranged the election of an antipope.
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 Germantimeline
The Visigoths are also important because it was their successful attack on the Roman Empire in the West (Battle of Adrianople, A.D. 378)) that sounded the death knell for the almost legendary superiority and invincibility of the Romans.
A.D. (Chlodovech), a Salian Frank (the "free ones" on the east bank of the Rhine, non-tributary to the Romans) of the family Meroveus, became the absolute ruler of a strong Germanic kingdom of mixed Germanic-Roman population.
He got to that position by killing off all of his possible rivals.
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 German history, Germany history, Germany's history, German ancestors, German historic culture
Several dynasties dominated at one point or another during medieval German history from the sixth century through the thirteenth century, including: the Merovingian Dynasty, the Carolingian Dynasty, the Saxon Dynasty, the Salian Dynasty, and the Hohenstaufen Dynasty.
The dynasties of these German ancestors helped shape the flourishing culture.
It wasn't until the end of the thirteenth century, that German history saw the first member of the Hapsburg Empire take his throne.
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 Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Conrad II: The First Salian Emperor
The Salian dynasty came to power with the election of Conrad of Swabia after the Saxon dynasty died out in 1024.
This program charts the career of the first of the Salian line, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Germans.
Films Media Group, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, Shopware and their respective logos are trademarks of Films Media Group, a PRIMEDIA company.
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 Herwig Wolfram: Conrad II, 990 - 1039
In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990–1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium.
Conrad was the founder of the Salian Dynasty, under whose almost century-long dominion Germany became the most powerful state in Western Europe.
He was also the first emperor of the High Middle Ages to rule the three kingdoms of Germany, Italy, and Burgundy.
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