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Date: | 2014 |
Title: | To Be King of an Empire. The Notion of ʻEmpireʼ in the Charters and Letters of the Hohenstaufen King Philip (1198–1208) |
Author: | Rzihacek, Andrea |
Publisher: | Mittelalter |
Citation: | Andrea Rzihacek, To Be King of an Empire. The Noton of Empire in: the Charters and Letters of the Hohenstaufen King Philip (1198–1208), 24. Oktober 2014, http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/4559, (ISSN 2197-6120). |
Description: | In 1198, when Emperor Henry VI died unexpectedly, his son and heir, the future Emperor Frederick II, was only a child of three. Thus, the major part of the princes and nobles of the Holy Roman Empire elected Henry´s younger brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king. As the pope rejected his election and denied him to be crowned emperor in Rome, Philip found himself in a tedious and violent struggle for the throne against the Guelph Otto, who was supported by a minor oppositional group, which was ... |
URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/80376 |
Other Identifier: | http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/4559 |
License: | CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported |
AMAD ID: | 4559 |
Appears in Collections: | General history of Europe Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte Open Access |