ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Biographies : Early Middle Ages </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../timelines/wh/tlema.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../timelines/whchapters.html"> <img src = "../../region/banners/banbiography.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdema.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Dictionary </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on May 13th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Biographies : Early Middle Ages </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/biographies/wh/bioema.html </i></font> </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "150"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A NAME = "adalbero">Adalbero of Laon</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR> St. Adalbert <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> Alcuin <BR><BR> Alfred the Great <BR><BR><BR> Arnulf of Carinthia <BR><BR><BR> Beda Venerabilis <BR><BR> <A NAME = "charlemagne">Charlemagne</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> Charles Martel <BR><BR><BR><BR> Charles the Fat <BR><BR><BR> Conrad II. <BR><BR><BR> Kenneth MacAlpin <BR><BR><BR> Pope Leo III. <BR><BR><BR> Louis the German <BR><BR><BR><BR> Odo of Paris <BR><BR><BR> Otto the Great <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> St. Patrick <BR><BR><BR><BR> Pepin the Short <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> St. Stephen <BR><BR><BR><BR> Wojciech <BR> Pope Zachary <BR><BR><BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> bishop of Laon (northern France) 977-1030. He supported the claim of Hugh Capet <BR> on the French throne (987). Adalbero of Laon defined the tripartite structure of feudal <BR> society clergy charged with the task to educate, nobility charged with the task to <BR> defend, the third estate with the task to nourish <BR> born in Bohemia, original name Wojciech. Studied in Magdeburg under Archbishop <BR> Adalbert (whose name he accepted). Was active as a missionary in Hungary, then in <BR> Poland, where he was appointed Archbishop of Gniezno. In an attempt to convert the <BR> pagan Prussians, he was killed. Claimed as national patron saint by both Poles and <BR> Bohemians. <BR> English scholar, born 735, died 804. In 781 he met Charlemagne and, on his invitation, <BR> opened a school in Aachen; a prominent figure in the Carolingian Renaissance <BR> Born in 849, King of Wessex 871-899, credited for ending Viking ingressions from the <BR> Danelaw by establishing a chain of castles (burghs) across England. Under him, <BR> Wessex began reclaiming land from the Danes. <BR> born in 850; in 887, the East Frankish nobility deposed King Charles the Fat and, <BR> imposing a constitutional reform, elected Arnulf instead; he defeated the Vikings in 891 <BR> and undertook campaigns against Great Moravia. He died in 899 <BR> born c.673, British munk and church historian, wrote History of the English Church; <BR> died in 735 <BR> born in 742 as son of Pepin the Short; in 768, he and his brother Carloman inherited <BR> and partitioned the Frankish Kgd.; upon the death of Carloman (771), Charles (in <BR> Latin : Carolus Magnus, in German : Karl der Grosse) sole ruler. In 774 he conquered <BR> the Lombard Kingdom; in 772 he began the conquest of pagan Saxony (-802); in 788 <BR> Bavaria submitted to him, in 791 his armies destroyed the Avar Khaganate. In 800 <BR> he was crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III. Promoted Carolingian Renaissance, <BR> the creation of a German and French written language. Pushed for the conversion of <BR> the Saxons, the economic development of the backward regions of his empire. <BR> born in 676, mayor of Austrasia; in a series of campaigns, he extended his authority <BR> (technically, he was a servant of a Merovingian king) over the entire Frankish Kingdom. <BR> Credited for the victory over a Saracen raiding party in the Battle of Tours and Poitiers <BR> in 732. Father of Pepin the Short. <BR> born c.832 as son of Louis the German; became East Frankish King in 880, West <BR> Frankish King in 884. Incapable of dealing with the Viking siege of Paris 885, he was <BR> deposed in both kingdoms in 887. He died in 888. <BR> born c.990, Duke of Franconia; after the death of the last Ottonian Emperor in 1024 <BR> elected Roman King, founder of the Salian Dynasty; crowned Emperor in 1027, King <BR> of Burgundy in 1032/1034, died in 1039. <BR> succeeded his father as King of Dalriada in 834; conquered the Kingdom of Fortriu (the <BR> land of the Picts) by 843; out of the merger the Kingdom of Alba (Scotia) emerged. Died in <BR> 858 <BR> Elected Pope in 795, manhandled by adversaries in Rome; he fled to the court of <BR> Charlemagne, who returned him to Rome and reinstated him. Leo III. in 800 crowned <BR> Charlemagne Roman Emperor. He died in 816. <BR> born in 804 as son of Louis the Pious; in 843 he inherited the East Frankish Kingdom <BR> (byname 'the German' given by 19th century historiographers, stressing 843 to be the <BR> begin of a German state; Louis felt being a Frank). In 870 he expanded his Kgd. by the <BR> acquisition of half of Lotharingia. Died in 876. <BR> Count of Paris, he was responsible for breaking the Viking siege of Paris in 885. When <BR> King Charles the Fat was deposed in 887, the West Frankish nobles elected him king. <BR> Odo died in 898. <BR> born in 912 as son of East Frankish King Henry I.; succeeded his father in 936. During <BR> his rule, an invading Hungarian army was defeated (955); in 962 he was crowned <BR> Roman Emperor. In a propagandistic program (Renovatio Imperii) Otto established the <BR> tradition that only East Frankish Kings could claim to be crowned Emperor; the East Fr. <BR> Kgd. was henceforth known as Roman Kgd. Denmark, Bohemia and Poland accepted <BR> christianity, and (Dk, Pl only temporarily) Imperial sovereignty. Otto died in 973. <BR> born in Scotland, date of birth given as 387, abducted, sold into slavery to Ireland; <BR> freed, he went to France where he became a priest; then went to Britain, and later to <BR> Ireland, as a missionary. The apostle of the Irish, date of death given as 493 (or 461), <BR> he is regarded the patron saint of Ireland <BR> also spelled Pippin the Short, born in 714, since 741/747 mayor of the Frankish Kgd. <BR> in 750 Pepin requested, in a letter to Pope Zachary, to determine who should be <BR> king - the king in name, or the person holding power. Pope Zachary opted for the <BR> latter. In 751, Pepin had himself crowned King of the Franks (the last Merovingian <BR> king had been deposed), thus beginning the Carolingian Dynasty. Pepin died in 768. <BR> born as son of Duke Geza of Hungary in 975, given the name Vaik; baptized in 987; <BR> he succeeded to the Hungarian throne in 997, and introduced christianity in his <BR> country. He was crowned king in 1001, died in 1038, canonised in 1083. Patron <BR> saint of Hungary. <BR> see under St. Adalbert <BR> also spelled Zacharias; Pope 741-752, in correspondence with Frankish Mayor Pepin the <BR> Short he approved of the latter's coronation as King of the Franks. He also corresponded <BR> with St. Boniface, missionary among the Hessians, Saxons and Frisians. <BR> see article from <A HREF = "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15743b.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia</A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> </font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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