From about 1085/86, after the death of the last Ezzonian count palatine Herman II, Palatinate authority ceased to have any military significance in Lotharingia.In practice, the Count Palatinate's Palatine authority had collapsed, reducing his successor (Henry of Laach) to a mere feudal magnate over his own territories – along the Upper Rhine in south-western Franconia.

The estate of imperial princes or Reichsfürstenstand was first established in a legal sense in the Late Middle Ages.A particular estate of "the Princes" was first mentioned in the decree issued by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1180 at the Imperial Diet of Gelnhausen, in which he divested Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony and Bavaria.About fifty years later, Eike of Repgow codified it …

Henry VI (German: Heinrich VI; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194 he was also King of Sicily.. He was the second son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his consort Beatrix of Burgundy.Well educated in the …

January 4 – Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen, Imperial Field Marshal (d. 1760) January 6 – Georg Ludwig von Bar, German (d. 1767) January 14 – Thomas Edwards, silversmith active in colonial Boston (d. 1755) January 17 – William Lubbock, British divine (d. 1754) January 18 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (d. 1785)

Ottokar II (Czech: Přemysl Otakar II.; c. 1233, in Městec Králové, Bohemia – 26 August 1278, in Dürnkrut, Lower Austria), the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his death in 1278. He also held the titles of Margrave of Moravia from 1247, Duke of Austria from 1251, and Duke of Styria from 1260, as well as …

The Holy Roman Empire, also known after 1512 as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.. From the accession of Otto I in 962 until the twelfth century, the Empire was the most powerful …

January 4 – Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen, Imperial Field Marshal (d. 1760) January 6 – Georg Ludwig von Bar, German (d. 1767) January 14 – Thomas Edwards, silversmith active in colonial Boston (d. 1755) January 17 – William Lubbock, British divine (d. 1754) January 18 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (d. 1785)