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Hace 6 días · Prussian Line. The House of Schwarzenberg is a German ( Franconian) and Czech ( Bohemian) aristocratic family, formerly one of the most prominent European noble houses. The Schwarzenbergs are members of the German and Czech nobility, and they once held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hace 3 días · Born a princess of Hungary, her marriage to Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany), made her a queen for a short while. She died at the age of twenty-four, but not before creating the world's first known orphanage, building a hospital where she herself worked and cared for lepers, and giving much of her ...
Hace 3 días · St. Elizabeth of Hungary, whose feast day we celebrate Nov. 17, stands as a witness of this cohort in the Communion of Saints. Wed to King Ludwig of Thuringia as a teenager, St. Elizabeth grew up in the very center of European wealth in the 13th century.
Hace 2 días · After his death in 899, the German kingdom came under the nominal rule of the last Carolingian king of Francia Orientalis, his young son, Louis IV (Louis the Child), and in the absence of strong military leadership it became the prey of the Magyar horsemen and other invaders from the east.
Hace 5 días · Louis IX of France (French: Saint Louis) William X, Duke of Aquitaine; Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (German: Luitpold der Heilige) Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (German: Ludwig der Heilige) Raymond Benergar IV, Count of Barcelona (Catalan: Ramon Berenguer el Sant) "~ the Sapient": Mindaugas "~ the Saver of Europe": Tervel of Bulgaria ...
Hace 4 días · From the beginning of his reign, Louis pursued a vigorous foreign policy. Historical opinion has traditionally held that Louis sought to dominate Europe, only to meet his just deserts at the end of his reign. (For the traditional interpretation, see Germany: The age of Louis XIV.)
Hace 5 días · Louis XIV. Louis XIV, detail of a portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701; in the Louvre, Paris. Throughout his long reign Louis XIV (1643–1715) never lost the hold over his people he had assumed at the beginning. He worked hard to project his authority in the splendid setting of Versailles and to depict it in his arrogant motto “Nec pluribus ...
