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The Franks United in 511 AD. The Franks Empire became France
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The Franks were losing in battle, so Clovis prayed to his wife's God. They won the battle, and then Clovis converted to Christianity
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King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, fought on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, England. At the end of the bloody, all-day battle, Harold was killed--shot in the eye with an arrow, according to legend--and his forces were destroyed. He was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
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Church reformers thought that the bishops should not be under the power of the king, so in 1075 Pope Gregory VII banned lay investiture.
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King Henry was mad that lay investiture was banned, so he sent a vicious letter to Pope Gregory asking him to step down from his position. Gregory got mad and excommunicated Henry. Later on Henry begged for forgiveness, and the Pope gave in.
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The main goal of the Crusades was to get back the Holy Land.
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Otto invaded Italy following in Charlemagne's footsteps. The Pope rewarded him by crowning him.
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In 1176, the Lombard League attacked Frederick'sarmy. Surprisingly the Lombard's beat the army of Mounted Knights.
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After Frederick made peace with the Pope he returned to Germany. In 1190 Frederick drowned.
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The Children's Crusade led by a French peasant boy, Stephen of Cloyes. He was a shepherd and that in 1212 he was 12 years of age. With a peasant's background, he would not have been able to read or write and at his age he would have done very basic work around a farm.
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A charter of liberty and political rights obtained from King John of England by his rebellious barons at Runnymede in 1215
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The 9th Crusade led by Prince Edward (later Edward I of England). The Ninth Crusade, which is sometimes grouped with the Eighth Crusade, is commonly considered to be the last major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land.
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The earliest recorded European vernacular literature is that written in the Irish language. Given that Ireland had escaped absorption into the Roman empire, this had time to develop into a highly sophisticated literature with well-documented formal rules and highly organised Bardic schools
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The development of parliament was driven by the monarch's need to raise money through taxes.
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The bubonic plague killed 1/3 of Middle Ages Europe.
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The reason for the war was when the King of England claimed to be the ruler of France as well.
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The Roman Catholic Church split when the King of France decided that he did not like the Italian Pope and elected one of his own. The Great Schism lasted for about 68 years, during which time there were 2 people claiming to be the Pope.
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On May 30 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
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Pepin III dies and Charlemange becomes king. The Franks Capitl is in Aachen.
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After Charlemagne was crowned the Church wanted to influence the government and the Church. Even though Pope Gelasius wrote about why it would be a bad idea.
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Otto the first was the most effective ruler in Medival Germany. His boyhood hero was Charlemagne, so he also formed an alliance with the Church.
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