IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL narrative published in the 1876 “History of the Town of Peterborough,” Rev. John Hopkins Morison told ...

However, he had no desire to replace the fitful Francis with the even more erratic Henry. Another foe was the Ottoman Empire, whose sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, boasted a court of equal ...

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and military setbacks. Alexios Komnenos took power in 1081 CE and began an ...

Clement’s friend and benefactor, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, later had to continue overseeing ... to confront the incursions of the Ottoman Empire into Europe, culminating in the decisive ...

During his papacy, he remained a steadfast ally of the Carolingian Empire ... Alexander III also struggled against the internalized conflicts such as with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and ...

The East after the disintegration of the Mongol Empire. Credit: Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia ... but the baton was taken up by the eldest son of Henry III of England, Edward. His army was small, just ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern ... The nephew of the first, Pope Callixtus III, Alexander was elected in 1492 amid allegations of vote buying.

Seeing that a union with the Germans would help him fight against France and the Holy Roman Empire, Henry asks Cromwell to secure a match for his daughter Mary with Anne's cousin, the Duke of Bavaria.

But they disappeared and Richard III, Edward IV ... with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared himself ...

The monarch, in this case His Majesty, King Charles III, is the supreme governor ... an international church structure (i.e. the Roman Catholic Church) under one leader (i.e. the pope). To put it ...

the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the Abbey’s collection and was used in 1267 during the reign of Henry III, shares a pattern and weaver with Charlemagne’s burial shroud.