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High Middle Ages

By Coliea.Crawford
  • Period: 987 to 996

    Reigns: Hugh Capet

    Hey was King of the Franks. He was born in 936 and died in 996.Hugh married Adelaide, daughter of William III, duke of Aquitaine, in 970.
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Capet
  • 1066

    War: Battle of Hastings

    War: Battle of Hastings
    King Harold II of England was defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror. King Harold died by the end of the war. After the battle William was crowned the first Norman king of England.
  • 1091

    War: Normans took Sicily from Muslims

    War: Normans took Sicily from Muslims
  • 1092

    Death of Sultan of Turks

    Death of Sultan of Turks
    Led Byzantine Emperor, Alexius to appeal to the west for assistance against the Turks.
  • 1095

    Important Documents (event): Council of Clermont

    Important Documents (event): Council of Clermont
    an assembly for church reform called by Pope Urban II which, as a result of a request by envoys from the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus to aid the Greeks against the Muslim Turks, became the occasion for initiating the First Crusade. https://www.britannica.com/event/Council-of-Clermont
  • Period: 1096 to 1099

    War: First Crusade

    Was a military campaign by western European forces to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. The first and most important action to spark off the fuse which would eventually burn down to the explosion of the First Crusade was the rise of the Muslim Seljuks, a Turkish tribe of the steppe. The Seljuks won significant victories in Asia Minor against Byzantine armies. https://www.ancient.eu/First_Crusade/
  • Period: 1100 to 1135

    Significant People: Henry I

    The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons. He married Edith, sister of the king of Scotland, in order to secure his northern border.
  • 1122

    Important documents: Concordat of worms

    Important documents: Concordat of worms
    Compromise arranged between Pope Calixtus II (1119–24) and the Holy Roman emperor Henry V (reigned 1106–25) settling the investiture Controversy. Which was a struggle of control of the churches. Recognized that bishops are not only church leaders but temporal leaders as well. https://www.britannica.com/event/Concordat-of-Worms
  • 1123

    First Lateran Council

    First Lateran Council
    the ninth ecumenical council , was held during the reign of Pope Calixtus II; no acts or contemporary accounts survive. The council promulgated a number of canons (probably 22), many of which merely reiterated decrees of earlier councils. Much of the discussion was occupied with disciplinary or quasi-political decisions relating to the Investiture Controversy settled the previous year by the Concordat of Worms. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lateran-Council-Roman-Catholicism
  • Period: 1147 to 1149

    War:Second Crusade

    Some consider to be a complete failure. The Second Crusade was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia which had fallen in 1144 CE to the Muslim Seljuk Turks. Also included significant campaigns in the Iberian peninsula and the Baltic against the Muslim Moors and pagan Europeans respectively.
    https://www.ancient.eu/Second_Crusade/
  • Period: 1152 to 1190

    Reigns : Frederick Barbarossa

    born c. 1123—died June 10, 1190, duke of Swabia (as Frederick III, 1147–90) and German king and Holy Roman emperor (1152–90), who challenged papal authority and sought to establish German predominance in Western Europe. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-I-Holy-Roman-emperor
  • Period: 1154 to 1189

    Significant People: Henry II

    His reign falls in a century flanked by the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta. He was husband to Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of two of more familiar monarchs.The final few years of Henry’s reign up until his death in 1189, were tormented by disputes with his sons. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Henry-II-of-England/
  • Period: 1189 to 1192

    War: Third Crusade

    The Third Crusade was launched to retake Jerusalem after its fall to the Muslim leader Saladin in 1187 CE. The Crusade was led by three European monarchs, hence its other name of ‘the Kings' Crusade’. The three leaders were: Frederick I Barbarossa, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1152-1190 CE), Philip II of France (r. 1180-1223 CE) and Richard I 'the Lionhearted' of England (r. 1189-1199 CE). https://www.ancient.eu/Third_Crusade/
  • Period: 1199 to 1216

    Significant People: King John

    The last child of the great Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He is responsible for Magna Carta.
    http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_3.htm
  • Period: 1202 to 1204

    War: Fourth Crusade

    The Fourth Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III to retake Jerusalem from its current Muslim overlords. However, in a bizarre combination of cock-ups, financial constraints, and Venetian trading ambitions, the target ended up being Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and the greatest Christian city in the world. Sacked on 12 April 1204 CE, Constantinople was stripped of its riches and more.
    https://www.ancient.eu/Fourth_Crusade/
  • 1215

    Important Documents: Magna Carta

    Important Documents: Magna Carta
    Originally was written in Latin. Addressed issues such as trial by Jury, prohibition against arbitrary arrests, and King could not levy taxes without consent of the kingdom.