The West: Fragmentation and Resilience - Western Kingship in an Age of Fragmentation - Germany
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Who was Henry I, what did he do?
What did Otto I do after coming to the throne?
- Soon after coming to the throne, Henry's son Otto I (r.936-973) defeated all rivals as well as invading Slavic and Hungarian armies.
- Through astute marriage alliances and political appointments, he was able to get his family members to head up each of the duchies.
Who did Otto I invade?
- In 951, he marched into Italy and took the Lombard crown. That gave Otto control of much of northern Italy.
- His victory at Lechfeld in 955 ended the Hungarian threat, and in the same year, he defeated a Slavic group, the Obodrites, who inhabited the territory between the Elbe and the Oder Rivers.
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What did Otto I receive in 962?
- Conquests such as these brought tribute, plum positions to disburse, and lands to give away, ensuring Otto a following among the great men of the realm.
- In 962 he received the imperial crown from the pope at Rome, an act that recognized his far-flung power and burnished his image as a new Charlemagne.
Who were Otto I's successors?
What tempered the power of princes?
Why was filling in bishoprics by the king, important for bishops?
Who constituted the Ottonian rule? How did that place?
Of what is Bruno of Cologne a good example? What did he do?
- Archbishop Bruno of Cologne is a good example of the symbiotic relations between Church and State in the German realm.
- Right after he was invested as archbishop in 953, he was appointed by Otto to be duke of Lotharingia and to put down a local rebellion.
- Bruno was not only duke of Lotharingia, pastor of his flock. At Cologne, and head (as archbishop of Cologne) of the bishops of his duchy. He was also a serious scholar.
Where did the most talented young men crowded? What did they study?
- The most talented young men crowded the schools at the cathedrals of Trier, Cologne, Magdeburg, Worms, and Hindesheim.
- Honing their Latin, they studied classical authors such as Cicero and Horace as well as Scripture, while their episcopal teachers wrote histories, saints' lives, and works on canon law.
What did the men at the cathedral schools went in training for?
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