End of the Holy Roman Empire.

Start of the Holy Roman Empire.

Foundation Of The Holy Roman Empire.

Conrad II became king of Germany and emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor in the eleventh century. He had a successful reign.

During his own lifetime many considered him to be the most powerful ruler in the world yet fate rather than planning made him so.

A Thesis essay about how the crusades brought a change in Europe.

When Emperor Otto I went looking for a wife for his son, he wanted it to be a political statement. As the first Emperor from German stock, he was looking for acknowledgement by the other half of the Roman Empire. A princess of the house of Byzantium it had to be and nothing less. Once the goal was achieved, the newcomers went out of their way to show how much they appreciated the gesture.

The Teutonic Knights had been established in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade. In just over ten years, they amassed large holdings of land within the Holy Roman Empire, as well as lands in the Holy Land, France, and Eastern Europe. Their houses and hospitals were scattered over the continent and even into the Byzantine Empire.

Vladislaus iwas born in November or December 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara.

At this time his father Vlad II was in exile in Transylvania, the birthplace still stands and is in a prosperous neighborhood surrounded by houses Saxons Magyar traders, as well as other houses of the nobility.

The 30 years war.