Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

The state was a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire and subject to the Pope’s authority in Rome ... the nobles and burghers of Liège after his wife’s second brother, John of Bavaria, had been overthrown ...

PRINCETON/PROVIDENCE — For centuries, papal elections were also diplomatic wrangles, with the great city-states of Italy (Milan, Florence and Naples) and then the great powers of Europe (Spain, France ...

France and the Holy Roman Empire) tussling for influence and aiming to install a proxy pontiff. But the pomp, secrecy and mystique of the process (all on display in the 2024 film Conclave ...

Bavaria has the Princes of Fugger ... they must have exercised petty sovereign sway in the days of that Holy Roman Empire which was overthrown by Napoleon, yet it was the one ambition of ...

Credit: Mark Ahsmann / CC BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikimedia Commons “Byzantine” is a historiographical term used to describe the Eastern Roman Empire during later antiquity ... was based on the Church of the ...

Among the organised religious communities that have an active presence in Germany, the Roman Catholic ... history in Germany. Bavaria is also home to a number of Catholic holy sites including ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of ... Benedict XVI, a native of Bavaria, was the oldest to become pope since Clement XII in 1730. He was also 78 when ...

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.

which was elevated to the rank of of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594. His bride was Victoria Matossián y Márquez, the daughter of Doña Sonia Márquez y de Baviera and Don Miguel Matossian y ...