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71-489: The third Cistercian monastery on German territory was founded by Adelheid of Lare ( Lohra ), wife of Count Volkmar of Klettenberg , under the first abbot Henry I (1127–28); the foundation was backed by King Lothair III and confirmed in 1137 by Pope Innocent II . The constituent convent arrived in 1129 from Kamp Abbey in the Rhineland , where Adelheid had stayed on a pilgrimage. The premises were conveniently situated on

142-574: A Gothic style and consecrated by Bishop Siegfried II of Hildesheim in 1290. The Counts of Klettenberg held the office of a Vogt (reeve), which upon their extinction about 1260 passed to the Counts of Hohnstein . When in the mid 14th century plague epidemics depopulated the Harz region, both the mining in the Upper Harz and the agricultural business stagnated and the abbey began to decline. In

213-530: A common descent ("stem"), being governed as units over long periods of time, sharing a tribal sense of solidarity, shared customs, etc. In the context of modern German nationalism , Gerd Tellenbach (1939) emphasised the role of feudalism , both of the kings in the formation of the German kingdom and of the dukes in the formation of the stem duchies, against Martin Lintzel and Walter Schlesinger , who emphasised

284-565: A kingdom of the Germans as supplanting that of the Franks. Hence, they say that Pope Leo in the decrees of the popes, called Henry's son Otto the first king of the Germans. For that Henry of whom we are speaking refused, it is said, the honor offered by the supreme pontiff. But it seems to me that the kingdom of the Germans—which today, as we see, has possession of Rome—is a part of the kingdom of

355-538: A layman, educated himself. In the 13th century, about 100 monks and more than 200 lay brothers lived in the abbey, which became one of the most affluent and significant Cistercian monasteries in Germany. In 1209 the erection of a new basilica modelled on Morimond Abbey began, supported by Emperor Otto IV . The church, then one of the largest in Northern Germany , and the adjacent cloister were finished in

426-679: A missionary diocese at Osterwieck (then called Seligenstadt ) in Eastphalia , in the course of the Christianisation of the pagan Saxons and Polabian Slavs . Under its (supposed) first bishop Hildegrim of Châlons the capital was moved to Halberstadt, confirmed by Charles' son Louis the Pious in an 814 deed. The bishopric's boundaries originally reached the Elbe and Saale rivers in the east, nevertheless, when Emperor Otto I founded

497-555: A strong royal government also went a long way to creating an East Frankish (i.e. German) state. Within East Francia were large duchies, sometimes called kingdoms ( regna ) after their former status, which had a certain level of internal solidarity. Early among these were Saxony and Bavaria , which had been conquered by Charlemagne . In German historiography they are called the jüngere Stammesherzogtümer , or "younger stem duchies", The conventional five "younger stem duchies" of

568-450: Is not known if this was meant to signify anything further. East Francia was itself divided into three parts at the death of Louis the German (875). Traditionally referred to as "Saxony", "Bavaria", and "Swabia" (or "Alemannia"), these kingdoms were ruled by the three sons of Louis in cooperation and were reunited by Charles the Fat in 882. Regional differences existed between the peoples of

639-555: Is what was written in the lost original; also on the wider issue whether the idea of the Kingdom as German, rather than Frankish, dates from the tenth or the eleventh century; but the idea of the kingdom as "German" is firmly established by the end of the eleventh century. In the tenth century, German writers already tended toward using modified terms such as "Francia and Saxony" or "land of the Teutons". Any firm distinction between

710-547: The Archbishop of Cologne and Archbishop of Trier were, respectively, arch-chancellors of Italy and Burgundy. These titles continued in use until the end of the empire, but only the German chancery actually existed. Distinct titulature for Germany, Italy and Burgundy, which traditionally had their own courts, laws, and chanceries, gradually dropped from use as the King/Emperor's influence outside of Germany waned and

781-591: The Archbishopric of Magdeburg in 968, Halberstadt lost the eastern half of its district to it. Halberstadt diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mainz . The Halberstadt bishops rivalled with Magdeburg to gain political influence in the days of the Ottonian and Salian dynasty . Under the rule of Emperor Henry III they were vested with further territorial rights and in 1062 Bishop Burchard II

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852-649: The Holy Roman Empire , which also included the Kingdom of Italy and, after 1032, the Kingdom of Burgundy . Like medieval England and medieval France , medieval Germany consolidated from a conglomerate of smaller tribes, nations or polities by the High Middle Ages . The term rex teutonicorum (' king of the Germans ') first came into use in Italy around the year 1000. It was popularized by

923-779: The Pope crowned him Emperor in Rome . The tripartite division of the Carolingian Empire effected by the Treaty of Verdun was challenged very early on with the death of the Emperor Lothair I in 855. He had divided his kingdom of Middle Francia between his three sons and immediately the northernmost of the three divisions, Lotharingia , was disputed between the kings of East and West Francia . The war over Lotharingia lasted until 925. Lothair II of Lotharingia died in 869 and

994-592: The Sachsenspiegel and Schwabenspiegel of the Medieval German law, the vassal princes were only required to provide service to the Empire and attend court within the German lands; Frederick II or his successors were unable to call upon the German lords to Bohemia, Italy or their other domains. Royal and Imperial legislation were sometimes specifically binding only within the borders of Germany, excluding

1065-507: The Wieda creek and the southern slopes of the Harz mountains. Shortly afterwards construction work of a Romanesque basilica began, which was dedicated in 1137. Two Cistercian daughter houses were founded: Pforta ( Sancta Maria ad Portam , 1137) near Naumburg and Sittichenbach Abbey (1141) near Eisleben in the County of Mansfeld . Walkenried grew rich and acquired lands as far away as

1136-647: The heir-apparent elected as king of the Romans in the emperor's lifetime resumed. For this reason, the title "king of the Romans" ( rex Romanorum ) came to mean heir-apparent, the successor elected while the emperor was still alive. After the Imperial Reform and Reformation settlement , the German part of the Holy Roman Empire was divided into Reichskreise (Imperial Circles), which in effect defined Germany against imperial territories outside

1207-489: The imperium Romanum . This title was employed most frequently by the German kings themselves, though they did deign to employ "Teutonic" titles when it was diplomatic, such as Frederick Barbarossa's letter referring to his receiving the coronam Theutonici regni (crown of the German kingdom). Foreign kings and ecclesiastics continued to refer to the regnum Alemanniae and règne or royaume d'Allemagne . The terms imperium / imperator or empire/emperor were often employed for

1278-595: The " imperium ", but sometimes they were used interchangeably, and sometimes they were combined in phrases like " Regnum Romanorum ". In the German language it was most common to simply use the term "German lands" rather than "kingdom". In 1349 Charles IV (King of the Romans) appointed the Duke of Brabant's son to govern on his behalf "in our kingdom of the Romans throughout Germania or Theutonia ". There were persistent proposals, including one that Ptolemy of Lucca claimed

1349-560: The "head and seat of the German Kingdom". When Pope Gregory VII started using the term Regnum Teutonicorum , the concept of a "distinct territorial kingdom" separate from Kingdom of Italy was already widely recognised on both sides of the Alps, and this entity was at least externally perceived as "German" in nature. Contemporary writers representing various German vassal rulers also adopted this terminology under papal influence. In

1420-533: The 870 Treaty of Meerssen divided his kingdom between East and West Francia, but the West Frankish sovereigns relinquished their rightful portion to East Francia by the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Ribemont determined the border between France and Germany until the fourteenth century. The Lotharingian nobility tried to preserve their independence of East or West Frankish rule by switching allegiance at will with

1491-471: The Alps and east of the Rhine. This "German kingdom" was later regarded as a subdivision of the Empire alongside Italy, Burgundy and Bohemia. In the late eleventh century the term "Kingdom of the Germans" ( Regnum Teutonicorum ) had become utilised more favourably in Germany due to a growing sense of national identity; by the twelfth century, German historian Otto of Freising had to explain that East Francia

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1562-563: The Franks and Lombards" and King of the Romans before Imperial coronation. Beginning in the late eleventh century, during the Investiture Controversy , the Papal curia began to use the term regnum teutonicorum to refer to the realm of Henry IV in an effort to reduce him to the level of the other kings of Europe, while he himself began to use the title rex Romanorum or King of the Romans to emphasise his divine right to

1633-412: The Franks. For, as is perfectly clear in what precedes, at the time of Charles the boundaries of the kingdom of the Franks included the whole of Gaul and all Germany, from the Rhine to Illyricum. When the realm was divided between his son's sons, one part was called eastern, the other western, yet both together were called the Kingdom of the Franks. So then in the eastern part, which is called the Kingdom of

1704-531: The German character of the empire at large. In 1474 the term "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" appeared, becoming more common after 1512. However, even after 1560, only 1 in 9 official documents mention "Germany", and most omitted the rest as well and simply called it "the Empire". In 1544 the Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) was published, which used "Germany" ( Teütschland ) as synonymous with

1775-534: The German kingdom and its rulers, which indicates a recognition of their imperial stature. However foreign sources combined the imperial titles with "Teutonic" and "Alemannic" which reference a denial of their Romanitas or universal rule. The term regnum Germaniae begins to appear even in German sources at the beginning of the fourteenth century. During the celebrations on the canonisation of Charlemagne in December 1165 and January 1166, Barbarossa also called Aachen

1846-534: The German kingdom came to be identified with the Holy Roman Empire. Reigns were either dated from the day a ruler was elected king ( Philip of Swabia , Rudolf of Habsburg ) or crowned king ( Otto IV , Henry VII, Louis IV, Charles IV). The election day became the starting date permanently with Sigismund. Throughout the Middle Ages, the King of Germany was known as "King of the Romans" from his election as king until

1917-404: The Germans', regnum Teutonicum 'German kingdom', regnum Alamanie "kingdom of Germany" ) was the mostly Germanic language-speaking East Frankish kingdom , which was formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843. The king was elected , initially by the rulers of the stem duchies , who generally chose one of their own. After 962, when Otto I was crowned emperor, East Francia formed the bulk of

1988-604: The Germans, Henry was the first of the race of Saxons to succeed to the throne when the line of Charles failed ... [western Franks discussed] ... Henry's son Otto, because he restored to the German East Franks the empire which had been usurped by the Lombards, is called the first king of the Germans—not, perhaps, because he was the first king to reign among the Germans. It is here and elsewhere that Otto distinguishes

2059-575: The Holy Roman Empire are Saxony , Bavaria , Franconia , Swabia and Lotharingia . Thuringia , while one of the "old stem duchies", is not counted among the young stem duchies because it had been absorbed into Saxony in 908, before the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire. The conventional term "younger" serves to distinguish them from the (poorly documented) duchies under the Merovingian monarchs. Herwig Wolfram (1971) denied any real distinction between older and younger stem duchies, or between

2130-675: The Imperial Circles : imperial Italy, the Crown of Bohemia , and the Old Swiss Confederacy . Brendan Simms called the Imperial circles as "an embryonic German collective-security system" and "a potential vehicle for national unity against outsiders". Nevertheless, there are relatively few references to a German kingdom distinct from the Holy Roman Empire. Bishopric of Halberstadt The Diocese of Halberstadt

2201-635: The Papal-Imperial Concordat of Worms of 1122, which put an end to the Investiture Controversy, the authority of the Emperor regarding Church offices in this "German kingdom" was legally distinguished from his authority in "other parts of the Empire". The Imperial chancery did adopt the "German" titles, albeit inconsistently. Pope Gregory began using the term Regnum Teutonicorum even before his conflict with Henry IV. He

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2272-688: The Princes of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel . During the Thirty Years' War the abbey was for a short time (1629–31) restored to the Cistercians. The 1648 Peace of Westphalia put an end to the existence of the Protestant monastery and the abbey was secularised. In 1668, the Latin school was closed. The Wolfenbüttel dukes ruled the former abbey's estates within an incorporated Amt also comprising

2343-573: The Rhineland and Pomerania . The monks gave much attention to land clearance and development, especially mining , smelting and charcoal works, and also the construction of fishponds. They used the Upper Harz water management system to cultivate the surrounding estates along the Helme river down to Thuringia , which are today called Goldene Aue . The abbey also held a library, where the 14th-century flagellant and millenarian Konrad Schmid , though

2414-562: The abbey should be restored to its former condition, but his command was unheeded. After the count's death the entire County of Hohnstein became Protestant, and in 1556, a Latin school was opened at Walkenried. Four Lutheran abbots directed the abbey until 1578 when the Count of Hohnstein appointed his son as administrator, after whose death in 1593 the Halberstadt cathedral chapter left the administration of Hohnstein and Walkenried Abbey to

2485-676: The atrocious subsequent sack of Constantinople , Conrad enriched the Prince-Bishopric with many relics and other booty personally looted from the churches, convents, and monasteries of the Roman Imperial capital . In 1315 the prince-bishop acquired the former Principality of Aschersleben for the prince-bishopric. In 1479 the Saxon prince-elector Ernest of Wettin pushed the election of his 13-year-old son Ernest II, Archbishop of Magdeburg since 1476, as administrator in place of

2556-410: The basic difference between the so-called älteres Stammesfürstentum [older tribal principality] and jüngeres Stammesfürstentum [younger tribal principality], since I consider the duchies before and after Charlemagne to have been basically the same Frankish institution ... There has been debate in modern German historiography over the sense in which these duchies were "tribal", as in a people sharing

2627-445: The chancery of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy (late 11th century), perhaps as a polemical tool against Emperor Henry IV . In the 12th century, in order to stress the imperial and transnational character of their office, the emperors began to employ the title rex Romanorum ( king of the Romans ) on their election. The Archbishop of Mainz was ex officio arch-chancellor of Germany, as his colleagues

2698-626: The claustral buildings are generally well preserved. The chapter hall has served since 1570 as a Lutheran church. The demolition of the buildings was stopped in 1817, first comprehensive works to renovate the cloister started in 1876. Since 1977 the premises are managed by the Osterode district authorities; a museum opened in 2006. 51°34′59″N 10°37′09″E  /  51.58306°N 10.61917°E  / 51.58306; 10.61917 Kingdom of Germany The Kingdom of Germany or German Kingdom ( Latin : regnum Teutonicorum 'kingdom of

2769-549: The course of the ninth century. An entry in the Annales Iuvavenses (or Salzburg Annals ) for the year 919, roughly contemporary but surviving only in a twelfth-century copy, records that Baiuarii sponte se reddiderunt Arnolfo duci et regnare ei fecerunt in regno teutonicorum , i.e. that " Arnulf, Duke of the Bavarians , was elected to reign in the Kingdom of the Germans". Historians disagree on whether this text

2840-604: The death of king Louis the Child in 911, but in 925 Lotharingia was finally ceded to East Francia by Rudolph of West Francia and it thereafter formed the Duchy of Lorraine within the East Frankish kingdom. Louis the German was known at the time as "Rex Germaniae" (King of Germany) as his brother was called King of Gaul. This was meant to distinguish the different parts of a theoretically single Frankish kingdom, although it

2911-506: The deposition of the Saxon duke Henry the Lion the episcopal and capitular temporalities forming the Stift of Halberstadt evolved to an Imperial State , the prince-bishopric. The political entity of the prince-bishopric only comprised parts of the ecclesiastical entity of the diocese, which also included neighbouring political entities of other rulers. On the death of Henry VI in 1197,

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2982-435: The deposition unless their king did also. After many angry protests, Conrad finally knelt before his son and pleaded for his desired consent, which was finally given. However, Conrad II used the simple title "king" or on occasion "king of the Franks and Lombards" before Imperial coronation, while his son Henry III introduced the title "King of the Romans" before the Imperial coronation. His grandson Henry IV used both "king of

3053-442: The different regions of the kingdom and each region could be readily described by contemporaries as a regnum , though each was certainly not a kingdom of its own. The common Germanic language and the tradition of common rule dating to 843 preserved political ties between the different regna and prevented the kingdom from coming apart after the death of Charles the Fat. The work of Louis the German to maintain his kingdom and give it

3124-465: The dukes created the duchies during Conrad's reign. No duke attempted to set up an independent kingdom. Even after the death of Conrad in 918, when the election of Henry the Fowler was disputed, his rival, Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria , did not establish a separate kingdom but claimed the whole, before being forced by Henry to submit to royal authority. Henry may even have promulgated a law stipulating that

3195-414: The early 16th century, the premises were settled by only 12 monks and the abbot. The German Peasants' War brought the monastery to the verge of destruction, when on Easter 1525, a mob of about 800 peasants from the southern Harz region marched against Walkenried. Abbot Paulus (1520–36) and the monks fled, taking the archives with them. The abbey was plundered and the church spire torn down, severely damaging

3266-416: The empire as a whole. Johann Jacob Moser also used "German" as a synonym for "Imperial". This conflated definition of "German" even included non-German speakers. In 1508, Maximilian I , with papal approval, adopted the title "emperor elect" ( Dei gratia Romanorum imperator electus semper augustus ). Subsequent rulers adopted that title after their coronation as kings. At the same time, the custom of having

3337-455: The empire. For instance, in 1349, Charles IV met the nobles and burghers of " regnum Alamannie ", in 1355 he summoned the electors and burghers " in regno Alemannie ". However, this tendency to refer to a "German" polity after the collapse of the Staufen empire did not develop further in the following period. The term " regnum " was sometimes used to refer a distinct political entity within

3408-539: The first Lutheran administrator , after which Halberstadt's see was held by sons of the Princes of Wolfenbüttel , a line of the Welf Brunswick and Lunenburg ducal family, until in 1623 Henry Julius' son Christian , the "Mad Halberstadter", resigned during the Thirty Years' War . He was succeeded by Christian William of Brandenburg , son of Elector Joachim III Frederick of Brandenburg . In political respect

3479-572: The first German king (Henry I) and the first German king to hold imperial power ( Otto I ). Henry II (r. 1002–1024) was the first to be called "King of the Germans" ( rex Teutonicorum ). The Ottonians seem to have adopted the use of the "Teutonic" label as it helped them to counter critics who questioned how the Ottonians, who were neither Carolingian nor Frankish, could legitimately rule. The Ottonians, by calling themselves "German" kings, instead presented themselves as rulers of all peoples north of

3550-462: The kingdom would thereafter be united. Arnulf continued to rule it like a king even after his submission, but after his death in 937 it was quickly brought under royal control by Henry's son Otto the Great . The Ottonians worked to preserve the duchies as offices of the crown, but by the reign of Henry IV the dukes had made them functionally hereditary. The eastern division of the Treaty of Verdun

3621-478: The kingdoms of Eastern Francia and Germany is to some extent the product of later retrospection. It is impossible to base this distinction on primary sources, as Eastern Francia remains in use long after Kingdom of Germany comes into use. The 12th century imperial historian Otto von Freising reported that the election of Henry the Fowler was regarded as marking the beginning of the kingdom, though Otto himself disagreed with this. Thus: From this point some reckon

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3692-582: The mid-1070s was there a common political awareness of a "German Kingdom" as a single unit of political loyalty. In the 13th century the term Regnum Teutonicorum started being replaced in Germany by the similar Regnum Alemanniae , possibly due to French or Papal influence, or alternatively due to the Staufer emperors' base of power in the Duchy of Swabia , also known as Alamannia . Emperor Frederick II even proclaimed his son Henry VII as Rex Alemannie (King of Germany), to rule Germany under him while he ruled

3763-582: The neighbouring villages of Zorge and Hohegeiß . From that time the abbey was systematically quarried as a source of building stone. The Gothic church was greatly damaged since the destruction of the roof tower by the peasants in 1525; today only a few picturesque remains are still in existence. The library was also destroyed by the peasants, but the archives are preserved at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . Otherwise, however

3834-484: The prince-bishopric supported the unsuccessful claim of Philip of Swabia against Otto of Brunswick to be Holy Roman Emperor . When Pope Innocent III disagreed, Prince-Bishop Conrad of Halberstadt (Conrad of Krosigk before his elevation) was excommunicated. To evade the penalties of excommunication, Conrad joined the catastrophic Fourth Crusade . Taking full part in the diversion of the Crusade from its mission and

3905-728: The prince-bishopric was secularised as the Principality of Halberstadt by the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, and finally given to the Hohenzollern rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia . After the 1815 Congress of Vienna , its territory was incorporated into the Prussian Province of Saxony . In ecclesiastic respect the diocese, sede vacante since 1480, since represented by administrators only, who were even Protestants between 1552 and 1628, became defunct in 1648 too. So in 1669

3976-399: The resigned Prince-Bishop Gebhard von Hoym. In 1513 Albert of Hohenzollern , younger brother of Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg , succeeded him and the Magdeburg archbishops from the House of Hohenzollern remained administrators, while in 1540 the Halberstadt territories became Lutheran during the Reformation . In 1566 two-year-old Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel became

4047-408: The rest of the Empire. German writers after the Staufen period used variants of the term " Regnum Alemanniae " to indicate the weakened reach of the emperors who now confined themselves mainly to German matters. Anti-king Henry Raspe also described himself as "king of Germany and prince of the Romans". There were also scattered references to a political community of "Germans" excluding the rest of

4118-432: The rest of the empire. The Kaiserchronik explicitly describes Henry as having rule of a separate German kingdom ( siniu Tiuschen riche ) under the empire. Henry's successor Konrad IV was also called king-designate of Germany (rex Theutonie designatus) by a contemporary writer. The Count Palatine of the Rhine was legally authorised to judge on the princes' affairs should the king leave Germany ("von teutchem lande"). In

4189-465: The role of the individual "stems" or "tribes" ( Stämme ). The existence of a "tribal" self-designation among Saxons and Bavarians can be asserted for the 10th and 12th centuries, respectively, although they may have existed much earlier. After the death of the last Carolingian, Louis the Child , in 911, the stem duchies acknowledged the unity of the kingdom. The dukes gathered and elected Conrad I to be their king. According to Tellenbach's thesis,

4260-518: The stem duchies of Germany and similar territorial principalities in other parts of the Carolingian empire: I am attempting to refute the whole hallowed doctrine of the difference between the beginnings of the West-Frankish, "French", principautés territoriales , and the East-Frankish, "German," stem-duchies ... Certainly, their names had already appeared during the Migrations . Yet, their political institutional, and biological structures had more often than not thoroughly changed. I have, moreover, refuted

4331-403: The tiny remaining Catholic diaspora in the diocesan area of Halberstadt was put under the new jurisdiction of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Northern Missions . Between 1709 and 1780 the area of the former diocese of Halberstadt formed part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony , but afterwards returning to the Northern Missions. In 1821 the area of the former diocese of Halberstadt

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4402-461: The underlying crossing vault. In view of the Protestant Reformation the abbey was finally declared an immediate Reichsstift (Imperial abbey) by Emperor Charles V in 1542. Nevertheless, the next abbot, John VIII (1530–59), was very worldly and extravagant; in 1546 he and his monks turned Lutheran . Thereupon Count Ernst of Hohnstein, as patron of the abbey, laid a complaint before the Habsburg emperor, who in 1548 ordered that everything in

4473-468: Was "now called the Kingdom of the Germans". In 1028, after his coronation as Emperor in 1027, Conrad II had his son, Henry III , elected King by the prince electors. When, in 1035, Conrad attempted to depose Adalbero , Duke of Carinthia , Henry, acting on the advice of his tutor, Egilbert, Bishop of Freising , refused to allow it, as Adalbero was a vassal of the King, not the Emperor. The German magnates, having legally elected Henry, would not recognise

4544-433: Was a Roman Catholic diocese ( German : Bistum Halberstadt ) from 804 until 1648. From 1180, the bishops or administrators of Halberstadt ruled a state within the Holy Roman Empire , the prince-bishopric of Halberstadt (German Hochstift Halberstadt ). The diocesan seat and secular capital was Halberstadt in present-day Saxony-Anhalt . In the aftermath of the Saxon Wars , Emperor Charlemagne in 804 established

4615-457: Was a strong reluctance by the Emperors to use "German" titles due to strong attachment to Roman symbolism, and it seemed to be actively avoided. References to "German" titles were less rare but still uncommon among vassals and chroniclers. From 1250 onward, the association between "Germans" and the whole Empire became stronger. As post-Staufer German monarchs were too weak to secure coronation as emperor, German writers became concerned that Germany

4686-494: Was called the regnum Francorum Orientalium or Francia Orientalis : the Kingdom of the Eastern Franks or simply East Francia. It was the eastern half of the old Merovingian regnum Austrasiorum . The "east Franks" (or Austrasians) themselves were the people of Franconia , which had been settled by Franks. The other peoples of East Francia were Saxons, Frisians, Thuringii, and the like, referred to as Teutonici (or Germans) and sometimes as Franks as ethnic identities changed over

4757-412: Was discussed between Pope Nicholas III and Rudolf I , to create a hereditary German kingdom independent from the Holy Empire. This idea was met with horror in Germany. When Rudolf I was elected, the emotional attachment the German people had with the superior dignity of the universalistic Roman title had become so firmly established that it was unacceptable to separate the German kingship from it. There

4828-453: Was highly successful at encouraging his German supporters such as Berthold of Reichenau or Bernold of St Blasien to use the terms "Regnum Teutonicorum" or "Teutonicae partes". Prior to the civil wars of Henry IV and the letters of Pope Gregory VII which address the German people as a whole, the loyalties of Germans were primarily focused on local regions such as Bavaria, Swabia, Franconia, Upper or Lower Lotharingia, East or West Saxony. Only from

4899-422: Was losing the prestige of Imperial status. The lack of concentration of power in one ruler or region also made the monarchy more attractive to all Germans. These led to more interest in connecting German identity to being heirs of Imperial Rome ( Translatio Imperii ), by right of their military strength as defenders of Christendom. At the same time, the replacement of Latin with German in official documents entrenched

4970-416: Was merged into the Diocese of Paderborn , and forms part of the modern Diocese of Magdeburg since 1994. After the foundation of the ancient Archbishopric of Magdeburg , the Diocese of Halberstadt covered the following Saxon Gau counties: Balsamgau , Derlingau , the western part of the Nordthüringgau , Harzgau , Schwabengau , and Hassegau . Thus, it stretched from the Oker river near Hornburg in

5041-448: Was sent to Rome as an Imperial mediator in the conflict between Pope Alexander II and Antipope Honorius II . However the former favourite of Dowager Empress Agnes of Poitou and her son Henry IV in 1073 allied with Pope Gregory VII in the Investiture Controversy and became one of the leading figures of the Great Saxon Revolt . The history of the diocese down to 1208 is found in the Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium . After

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