He enhanced this by bribing the German king Henry IV with 360, 000 gold pieces to attack the Normans in Italy, which forced the Normans to concentrate on their defenses at home in 1083 – 1084.

11 ) identifies Old Norse Baldr with the Old High German Baldere ( 2nd Merseburg Charm, Thuringia ), Palter ( theonym, Bavaria ), Paltar ( personal name ) and with Old English bealdor, baldor " lord, prince, king " ( used always with a genitive plural, as in gumena baldor " lord of men ", wigena baldor " lord of warriors ", et cetera ).

The idea that the German king could and should name the pope was increasingly discredited and viewed as an anachronism from a by-gone era.

Riots broke out in Germany, a new Antipope Gregory VIII was appointed by the German king, nobles loyal to Rome seceded from Henry.

1211 elected the future emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen German king.

The various ( German ) kings such as the king of Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia e. g. elected one of their peers as " Kaiser " of the Germans before crowned by the pope.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Emperor Wilhelm I declined this: " This was also the day of the first Prussian coronation of the king, which should not fall into the shadow of a united German holiday.

At the court of Hungary there were two parties arrayed against each other: the Magyar party under the leadership of Zápolyas and the German party under the leadership of George of Brandenburg, whose authority was increased by the acquisition of the duchies of Ratibor and Oppeln by hereditary treaties with their respective dukes and of the territories of Oderberg, Beuthen, and Tarnowitz as pledges from the king of Bohemia, who could not redeem his debts.

Meanwhile, the German princes had elected another king, Rudolf of Swabia.

As his son, Frederick II, though already elected king, was still a small child and living in Sicily, German princes chose to elect an adult king, which resulted in the dual election of Frederick Barbarossa's youngest son Philip of Swabia and Henry the Lion's son Otto of Brunswick, who competed for the crown.

The king married a fourth time in 1540, to the German Anne of Cleves for a political alliance with her Protestant brother, the Duke of Cleves.

Philip of Swabia, elected German king in 1198, changed the coat of arms, and the lion was replaced by three leopards, probably derived from the arms of his Welf rival Otto IV.

Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place.

Henry I the Fowler ( or Heinrich der Vogler ; ) ( 876 – 2 July 936 ) was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and German king from 919 until his death.

First of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors, he is generally considered to be the founder and first king of the medieval German state, known until then as East Francia.

This was partly because of a conflict of personality with Frederick, who came to regard Euler as unsophisticated, especially in comparison to the circle of philosophers the German king brought to the Academy.

Louis the German promptly rose in revolt, and the emperor redivided his realm again at Quierzy-sur-Oise, giving all of the young king of Bavaria's lands, save Bavaria itself, to Charles.

* Louis the German ( c. 805 – 875 ), king of East Francia

Duke Louis IV was elected German king in 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328.

That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.

He defeats and befriends Mongo ( Alex Karras ), an immensely strong, slow-thinking ( but surprisingly philosophical ) henchman sent by Taggart and Lyle to kill Bart, and then beats German seductress-for-hire Lili von Shtupp ( Madeline Kahn ) at her own game.

Verbatim translations were sent solely to the Naval Intelligence Division ( NID ) of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre ( OIC ) supplemented by information from indexes as to the meaning of technical terms and abbreviations, and cross-referenced information from a store of knowledge of German naval technology.

As the German Army invaded Austria in 1938, he was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald.

Herbert sent Baralongs twelve Royal Marines, under the command of a Corporal Collins, to find the surviving German sailors aboard Nicosian.

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.

Raeder merely sent the German navy attache.

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons ; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner.

After Andreas Brehme sent England 1 – 0 down, he scored an equaliser after receiving a pass from Paul Parker and escaping from two German defenders, but the West Germans triumphed in the penalty shoot-out and went on to win the trophy.

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the town was razed to the ground by German aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, sent by Hitler to support Franco's troops.

Each component of the German Empire sent representatives to the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) and, via single member districts, the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ).

A second German force was sent into Belgium and the Netherlands to act as a diversion to this main thrust.

—, and for handloaders to get data for new loads, gun and / or handloaded cartridges can be sent to the " Deutsche Versuchs-und Prüfanstalt für Jagd-und Sportwaffen ( DEVA )" ( German institute for testing and examining of hunting and sporting guns ); the DEVA returns a pressure diagram and a report whether this load is within legal range for this ammunition.

Soviet POWs and forced laborers who survived German captivity were sent to special " transit " or " filtration " camps to determine which were potential traitors.

Gyssling then sent letters to members of the cast, threatening that their participation in the film might lead to difficulties in obtaining German filming permits for them and for anyone associated in a film with them.

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

Ribbentrop in turn sent out instructions to the German Ambassador in Warsaw, Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, that if Poland agreed to the German demands, then Germany would ensure that Poland could partition Slovakia with Hungary and be ensured of German support for annexing the Ukraine.

The German Embassy in Ankara had been vacant ever since the retirement of the previous ambassador Friedrich von Keller in November 1938, and Ribbentrop was only able to get the Turks to accept Papen as Ambassador when the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu complained to Kroll in April 1939 about when the Germans were ever going to sent a new ambassador.

The German court found in favour of Gladitz, agreeing that Riefenstahl had known the extras were from a concentration camp, and they agreed with Riefenstahl on only one count ( finding that Riefenstahl had not informed the Gypsies that they would be sent to the Auschwitz camp after filming was completed ).

The Soviet government sent a telegram to the German side accepting the final Brest-Litovsk peace terms.