Rulers of Baden - Rulers of Baden Baden is a region in Southwestern Germany, along the right bank of the Rhine. In later years, its capital was at Karlsruhe. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Margraves of Baden, 1024-1516 2 Margraves of Baden-Baden, 1515-1596 3 Margraves of Baden Durlach, 1515-1596 4 Margraves of Baden-Sponheim, 1527-1533 5 Margraves of Baden, 1596-1622 6 Margraves of Baden-Baden, 1622-1771 7 Margraves of Baden-Durlach, 1622-1771 8 Margraves of Baden, 1771-1803 9 Electors of Baden, 1803-1806 10 Grand Dukes of Baden, 1806-1918 11 Heads of the House of Baden since 1918 Margraves of Baden, 1024-1516 Berthold I 1024-1077 Herman I 1052-1073 Herman II 1073-1130 Herman III 1130-1160 Herman IV 1160-1190 Herman V 1190-1243 Frederick 1216-1231 Herman V 1243-1250 Rudolf I 1250-1288 Frederick I 1250-1268 Hesso 1288-1297 Rudolf.
History of Baden, Germany - History of Baden, Germany History of Baden During the middle ages, various counts ruled the country that now forms Baden. The counts and duchy of Zähringen figure prominently among these. In 1112 Hermann, son of Hermann, Margrave of Verona (d. 1074) and grandson of Berthold, duke of Carinthia and count of Zähringen, having inherited some of the German estates of his family, called himself Margrave of Baden, and from this time the separate history of Baden dates. Hermann appears to have called himself margrave rather than count, because of the family connection to the margrave of Verona. His son and grandson, both called Hermann, added to their territories, which were then divided, and the lines of Baden-Baden and Baden-Hochberg were founded, the latter of which divided about.
State of Baden - State of Baden Baden was a territory in the southwest of what later became unified Germany. It was created in 1771 as a margravate and became the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806, functioning as a sovereign state. It became part of the German Empire in 1871, remaining a Grand Duchy until 1918 when became part of the Weimar Republic. Baden was bounded to the north by the kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt - to the west and practically throughout its whole length by the river Rhine, which separated it from the Bavarian Palatinate and the Alsace; to the south by Switzerland, and to the east by the kingdom of Württemberg and partly by Bavaria. After WW II, in 1945/46 the French military.
History of Württemberg - after his ancestral castle of Württemberg. The earliest historical details on a Count of Württemberg relate to one Ulrich, who ruled from 1241 to 1265. He served as marshal of Swabia and advocate of the town of Ulm, and had large possessions in the valleys of the Neckar and the Rems. Under his sons, Ulrich II and Eberhard I, and their successors, the power of the family grew steadily. Eberhard I (died 1325) opposed, and not always unsuccessfully, three German kings; he doubled the area of his county and transferred his residence from Württemberg to Stuttgart. His successors seem not perhaps equally important, but all added something to the area of Württemberg. The family shared out their lands amongst collateral branches several times, but in 1482 declared the territory indivisible and.
History of Bavaria - in 1392. The towns, assuming a certain independence, became strong and wealthy as trade increased, and the citizens of Munich and Regensburg often proved formidable antagonists to the dukes. Thus a period of disorder saw the growth of representative institutions and the establishment of a strong civic spirit. Stephen III, duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt, achieved renown rather as a soldier than as a statesman; and his rule saw struggles with various towns, and with his brother, John of Bavaria-Munich. On his death in 1413 his son Louis, called the Bearded, succeeded. Before his accession, this restless and quarrelsome prince, had played an important part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella had married King Charles VI. About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, Henry of.
Holy Roman Empire elector - was in fact a dynastic succession. Varying in number between six and ten from the 13th century to the Empire's end in 1806, the electors were drawn from the senior rulers of lands within the Empire. In a document known as the Golden Bull (1356) their status was regulated by Emperor Charles IV, who recognised them as quasi-independent rulers within their own domains. Each of the rulers was also given a special office, which gave them particular duties. The Golden Bull stipulated that the dignity of elector should be held by the following: The Archbishop of Mainz, Archchancellor of the Empire for Germany The Archbishop of Trier, Archchancellor of the Empire for Gaul The Archbishop of Cologne, Archchancellor of the Empire for Italy The King of Bohemia, Archcupbearer of the Empire.
Huldrych Zwingli - were not only religious but also political leaders, though neither held a political office. Zwingli died in battle (as field chaplain) in a war between the Reformed and the Catholic states of Switzerland. His successor in the lead of Swiss Reformation was Heinrich Bullinger. A party of believers known as the Anabaptists arose in 1523 among followers of Zwingli, rejecting Infant Baptism or pedobaptism, supporting the idea of Believer's Baptism and supporting the concept of Separation of Church and State. Zwingli did not share their views. Text to integrate from Schaff-Herzog Encyc of Religion: Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 1. Early Life and Education 2 2. Initial Doubts 3 3. Leut-priestship at Zürich and Marriage 4 Increasing Alienation from the Roman Church 5 5. The Final Rupture 6 6. Peasant and.
Grand duke - a grand duchy. The title of grand duke has been used by the male sovereigns of Luxemburg since 1815. The term probably originated in Germany, where it was used to refer to the rulers of medieval Russian states. Grand Duke is the traditional translation of the title, velikii kniaz, which from the 11th century was the title of first the leading Russian prince (in Kiev), then of several Russian princes. From 1328 the velikii kniaz of Muscovy appeared as the Grand Duke for "all of Russia" until Ivan IV in 1547 was crowneded as tsar, thereafter the title was given to sons and grandsons of the tsar and emperors of Russia. A more accurate translation of the Russian title would be Great Prince - especially in the pre-Petrine era - but.
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden - 3, 1800 Royal motto "Gud och folket" ("God and the people") Queen Frederica of Baden Royal House Holstein-Gottorp Predecessor Gustav III Successors Charles XIII in Sweden Alexander I in Finland Date of Birth November 1, 1778 Place of Birth Stockholm Date of Death February 7, 1837 Place of Death St. Gallen, Switzerland Place of Burial Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm (1) Formally Treaty of Fredrikshamn (September 17, 1809) Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837), king of Sweden, of the house Holstein-Gottorp, was the son of Gustav III of Sweden and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and born at Stockholm on November 1, 1778. Allegedly, Gustav Adolf was the biological son of Count Adolph Fredric Munck of Fulkila, though this has never been established. The Count is implied to have been given the task to father a son.
Maximilian I of Bavaria - Beauharnais. His reward came with the treaty of Pressburg (Dec. 26, 1805), by the terms of which he was to receive the royal title and important territorial acquisitions in Swabia and Franconia to round off his kingdom. The style of king he actually assumed on January 1 1806. The new king of Bavaria was the most important of the princes belonging to the Confederation of the Rhine, and remained Napoleon's ally until the eve of the battle of Leipzig, when by the convention of Ried (October 8, 1813) he made the guarantee of the integrity of his kingdom the price of his joining the Allies. By the first treaty of Paris (June 3, 1814), however, he ceded Tirol to Austria in exchange for the former duchy of Wiirzburg. At the congress.
List of famous left-handed people - Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Rulers 1.1 U.S. Presidentss 2 Politicians 3 Miscellaneous 3.2 Criminals 3.3 Artists 3.4 Musicians 3.5 Actors 3.6 Athletes Rulers Tiberius Alexander the Great Charlemagne Julius Caesar Napoleon Bonaparte King Louis XVI Queen Victoria of England George II of Great Britain King George VI, of England Prince Charles, of England Prince William of Wales Fidel Castro U.S. Presidentss James A. Garfield Herbert Hoover Harry S. Truman Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan Converted to right-handedness in childhood George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton Politicians Benjamin Franklin Ross Perot Nelson Rockefeller Miscellaneous Joan of Arc (?), French heroine Benjamin Netanyahu, politician Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer David Rockefeller, banker Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Davis Cup in tennis Helen Keller, advocate for the blind Edwin Buzz Aldrin, astronaut Lord Baden-Powell, founder.
Victoria of Baden - Victoria of Baden Victoria of Baden (August 7, 1862 - April 4, 1930) was the daughter of Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden, and his wife, Louise of Prussia, who was, in her turn, the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany. Victoria was also great-granddaughter (by her paternal grandmother) of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. Victoria was the most prominent of the queens of Sweden. She was born at the castle in Karlsruhe in Germany, and married, on September 20, 1881, to Prince Gustav Bernadotte of Sweden, who became King Gustav V of Sweden..
Vespasian - under Aulus Plautius. He reduced Vectis or the Isle of Wight and penetrated to the borders of Somerset, England. In 51 he was for a brief space consul; in 63 he went as governor to Africa, where, according to Tacitus (ii.97), his rule was "infamous and odious"; according to Suetonius (Vesp. 4), "upright and, highly honourable." He went with Nero's retinue to Greece, and in 66 was appointed to conduct the war in Judaea, which was threatening unrest throughout the East. According to Suetonius, a prophecy ubiquitous in the Eastern provinces claimed that from Judaea would come the future rulers of the world. Vespasian eventually believed that this procphecy applied to him, and found a number of omens and oracles and portents that reinforced this belief. He also found encouragement in.
Kaiser - from the Roman title of Caesar. While Kaiser denoted both the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire (962 - 1806) and of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire (1806 - 1918), in English usage the title is mainly associated with the emperors of the unified German Empire (1871 - 1918). The Kaisers of the German Empire were: Wilhelm I (1871 - 1888) Friedrich III (1888) Wilhelm II (1888 - 1918).
Kaspar Hauser - foundling in 19th century Germany with alleged ties to the royal house of Baden. In May 26 1828 a young boy appeared in the streets of Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany. He was wearing peasant clothing and could barely talk. His only documentation was a letter to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment where the writer asked the captain to either take him or hang him. Shoemaker Weissman took the boy to the house of captain Wessenig where he could only repeat, "I want to be a rider like my father." Further demands resulted only in tears. He was taken to a police station where he would only write a name: Kaspar Hauser. A letter with him claimed that he was born in April 30 1812. The next.
Kara-Khanid Khanate - century and built a federation with Muslim institutions called Kara-Khanlik, whose princely dynasties are called Kara-Khanids by historians. After the rise of the Seljuks in Iran, the Kara-Khanids became nominal vassals of the Seljuks. Later they would serve the dual suzerainty of both the Kara-Khitans to the north and the Seljuks to the south. Influential Kara-Khanid rulers include Mahmoud Tamgach of Kashgar. After the defeat of the Khitan dynasty by the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in Northern China, the great Khitan mandarin Yelu Dashi escaped from China with a small band of Khitan soldiers, recruited warriors from Tangut, Tibetan, Qarluk, Karakhoja, Naiman areas and marched westward in search of asylum. Yelu Dashi was accommodated by the hospitable Tangut Western Xia Kingdom and the Buddhist Karakhojas. However, he was shut out by the.
Karlsruhe (region) - Karlsruhe (region) Statistics State: Baden-Württemberg Capital: Karlsruhe Area: 6,919.17 km² Inhabitants: 2,701,376 (2001) pop. density: 390 inh./km² Map Karlsruhe is one of the four Regierungsbezirke of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the north-west of the country. Its sub-divided into the three regions (Regionalverband) Mittlerer Oberrhein, Unterer Neckar and Nordschwarzwald. Kreise (districts) Kreisfreie Städte (district-free towns) Calw Enzkreis Freudenstadt Karlsruhe Neckar-Odenwald Rastatt Rhein-Neckar Baden-Baden Heidelberg Karlsruhe Mannheim Pforzheim.
Karlsruhe (district) - Karlsruhe (district) Statistics State: Baden-Württemberg Adm. Region: Karlsruhe Region: Mittlerer Oberrhein Capital: Karlsruhe Area: 1,084.88 km² Inhabitants: 424,276 (2002) pop. density: 394 inh./km² Car identification: KA Homepage: http://www.landkreis-karlsruhe.de Map Karlsruhe is a district (Kreis) in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rhein-Neckar, Heilbronn, Enzkreis, Calw, Rastatt, Germersheim, Ludwigshafen and the district-free city Speyer. The district-free city Karlsruhe is located in the middle of the district, and cuts it into a northern and a southern part. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geography 3 Partnerships 4 Coat of arms 5 Towns and municipalities 6.
Karl Liebknecht - Paul Levi, Ernest Meyer, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin formed the so-called Spartakusbund ("Spartacus League", also often translated as "Spartacist League"); the league publicizied its views in a newspaper titled Spartakusbriefe ("Spartacus Letters") which was soon declared illegal, and Liebknecht was arrested and sent to the eastern front during World War I for the group's echoing of Russian Bolsheviks' arguments for a Proletarian Revolution; refusing to fight, he served burying the dead, and due to his rapidly deteriorating health was allowed to return to Germany in October 1915. Liebknecht was arrested again following a demonstration against the war in Berlin on May 1st 1916 that was organized by the Spartacus League, and sentenced to two and a half years in jail for high treason, which was later increased to four years.
Kabaah - the Masks", the fascade decorated with hundreds of stone masks of the long-nosed rain god Chac; it is also known as the Codz Poop, meaning "Rolled Matting", from the pattern of the stone mosaics. This massive repetition of a single set of elements is unusual in Maya art, and here is used to unique effect. Masks of the rain god abound on other strutures throughout the site. Copal incense has been discovered in some of the stone noses of the raingods. The site also has a number of other palaces, low stone buildings, and step-pyramid temples. While most is in the "Puuc" Maya style, some show "Chenes" elements. The site had a number of scupted panels, lintels, and door-jams, most of which have been removed to museums elsewhere. The sculptures mostly.
