Holy Roman Empire (the German people)

Holy Roman Empire (the German people)
End Carolingian in time of the Norman conquest, the Carolingian rulers were forced to leave
nobles defense and nasljeĊivanje lazy as private property, imperial and royal central
government will completely disappear, so will Karolinzi doţivjeti fate Merovingian
881. Germany King Charles the Fat was proclaimed emperor because he agreed to protect the Pope who is endangered by the Saracens (Arabs) in southern Italy, he inherited the French throne so
again there is a unique Carolingian Empire, but only nominally
X century: the disintegration of the empire is the ultimate, but the idea of ​​uniting there was a western and in eastern part
The principle of primogeniture (birthright): ruler nasljeĊuje only the eldest son and no more
division of the state as the Frankish law of succession
France: it dissolved into independent county and Duchy, the 987th Hugh Capet, Count
Paris, proclaimed himself king and founded a new dynasty, but the King of France for a long time will monitor only the surrounding areas of Paris (Ile de France)
East Francia / Germany Kingdom: split into five independent tribal
Principality (Saxony, Swabia, Franconia, Bavaria, Lorraine), 911 years. he died
Germany last Karoling Louis III, and the chiefs agreed to the king to choose
among themselves, 918. government has taken Henrik fowler, the first ruler of Saxony (later Ottonian)dynasty
Otto I (936-973) - thanks to good relations with the Church managed to quash independence
other German princes of the church properties, sets the bishops, who are actually
his vassals (layperson's investiture), 955. defeated the Hungarians near Augsburg and thus gained
great prestige and military power, the 962 comes with a host of in Rome, occupied northern Italy and the Pope proclaimed emperor - created the Holy Roman Empire of the German people (Reich), Oton you is appropriated, like Charlemagne, the right to ask the pope, expanded the borders of Germany
to the east, to the rivers Oder and Neisse (today's German border to Poland)
Ottonian Renaissance: flowering of culture in Germany and Italy under the Ottonian rulers in the XI.
century, the emergence of the Romanesque style in art, copying ancient books are written
Germanic and Celtic legends and songs (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Roland)