England

Kings

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Edward the Confessor

(d.1066)
William the Conqueror (r.
1066-1087)

Political Situation
War for throne and the
Battle of Hastings

Political Situation

Hugh Capet elected king

(987-996)

Philip I (1060-1108)

Henry I (r. 1100-1135)

Died without heir and

plunged England into War

Henry II (r. 1154-1189)

Gains the lands of

Aquitaine

Richard I, the Lion-Hearted

(r. 1189-1199)

3rd Crusade and held

Ransom by a duke of the
HRE

John (r.1199-1216)

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Kings

Holy Roman Empire

Emperors

Political Situation

Henry IV (r. 1056-1106)

Investiture Controversy
with the Pope Gregory VII

Henry V (r. 1106-1125)

Concordant of Worms ends

the Investiture Controversy

Frederick I Barbarossa (r.

1152-1190)

Strengthens the Emperors

position in HRE
Invades Italy
3rd Crusade drowns

Hernry VI (r. 1190-1197)

Otto IV (r.1198-1216) &
Philip of Swabia (11981212)
Otto IV (r.1198-1216)

Continued the Italian Wars

and antagonized the popes

Frederick II (r. 1212

&1215-1250)

Frederick gives
ecclesiastical princes and
secular princes many
jurisdictional claims in
Germany

Domesday Book

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France

Bouvines (1214) increases

taxation by John and leads
to the Magna Carta

Louis the Fat VI (r. 11081137)

Louis VII

Philip II Augustus (r. 11801223)

Philip II Augustus (r. 11801223)

Loiuis VIII (r. 1223-1226)

Loius IX (r. 1226-1270)

Solidify control of the Ilede-France by making peace

with powerful nobles and
controlling ones in his own
domains
Solidify control of the Ilede-France by slowly
bringing his vassals under
his control

Powerful enough to control

the nobles
Bouvines gains power for
French Kings

Fails to take advantage of

power of England to
remove the English kings
from French lands

Bouvines defeats Otto IV

and installs Frederick II

Loius IX (r. 1226-1270)

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Philip IV (r. 1285-1314)

Edward I (r. 1272-1307)

Edward restored much

power to the kings but also
established parliament as a
permanent establishment

Electoral College (1257-)

Electoral Princes choose the

Emperor and have power
over him for centuries