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Born: April 2, 742 Died: January 28, 814 Frankish King and Emperor Charles the Great was the son of Pepin, the first king of the Carolingian empire. Pepin’s domains at his peak of power covered most of present-day France, in addition to Belgium and areas of Germany. The single ruler of this particular extensive kingdom […]

Albert of Prussia, painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated 1528 Almost all the projects of Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach were underpinned by the ambition to develop Prussia, which was initially ruled by the Teutonic Order, into a powerful principality of the size it enjoyed before 1453. The civil war that broke out in 1453 and […]

The Warrior-Bishop Albero of Trier Hugh O’Reilly Archbishop Albero von Montreuil – Archbishop of Trier in Lorraine from 1131 to 1152 – was an energetic Prince-Bishop involved in the Church reform, imperial politics and territorial rule. This Prince-Prelate often worked with Pope Innocent II, Pope Eugene II and St. Bernard of Clairvaux to defend the […]