Formation of Medieval Europe Flashcards
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- tribes on the other side of the Rhine river, federate of Rome as mercenaries - non-christian - AKA “ax men” - they go to conquer Gaul in 500 - tradition of dividing inheritance among sons - spilled blood had to be avenged
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Franks
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- Leader who conquers land from the Romans and other Germanic tribes who decide to cross the Rhine river - couldn’t read or write - wants to unite Frankish people
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Clovis, 485-511
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- marries clovis and enters peace weaving marriage - was christian before marrying Clovis. (influences him) - baptizes her son and after he dies - clovis makes a demand of Clotilda’s God and when it is done he converts and forces all his men to convert as well.
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Clotilda
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- empire established by Clovis
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Merovingian
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- when blood is spilled it must be avenged - Clovis develops a way to end these with Wergild
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Blood Feuds
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-Man money - payed to the loved ones when a person is killed - pay of the family for killing their kin
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Wergild
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- woman that would marry tribes together
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Peaceweavers
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- AKA “Charles the Hammer” - never becomes king b/c he has no royal blood - fights the Arabs - develops good relations ships w/ local bishops and send gifts to the pope.
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Charles Martel
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- where Charles Martel defeated Umayyad people -
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Battle of Poitiers
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- means “Line of Charles” - descending from Charles Martel - first king is Peppin the short
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Carolingians
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- Son of Peppin the Short - Illiterate - there is a bronze Equestrian statue of him. - Invades Italy all the way to Rome. -Invades Northern Germany and forces his people to convert to Christianity. - builds many churches - the Pope makes him Roman Emperor after saving his life.
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Charlemagne, 768-814
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- germanic people who settled along northern europe
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Saxons
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- fake document found by Pope Leo III that claimed the last will and testament of Constantine that all power go to the Pope in Rome - nobody knew it was fake
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Donation of Constatine
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- Liked ruling over the empire - when her sone became of age to rule she had him blinded and put into a monastary
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Empress Irene
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- didn’t like Irene - found the Donation of Constantine - had three sons who each get 1/3 of his land and all 3 become kings of Charlemagne’s divided empire. - Oldest son gets title of “Holy Roman Emperor”
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Pope Leo III
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- signed in 843 -first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne. - The treaty signed in Verdun-sur-Meuse ended the three-year Carolingian Civil War.
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Treaty of Verdun 843
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- Patrick preaches here - had no Roman influnce
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Ireland
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- missionary - goes to Ireland to convert Irish - gets captured and enslaved by pirates - escapes back to England - goes back to ireland to preach to the Kings - works to convert all Irsih
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patrick, ca. 390-461
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- attacks England
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Angles (anglo-saxons??)
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- missionary sent to Kent b/c the King of Kent is married to a Frankish princess who is Christian
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Augustine of Canterbury
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- part of church very set on celibacy
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Monastery
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early christian church in Ireland
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Gallorus Oratory
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the 4 gospels decorated with elaborate paintings
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Book of Kells
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- raiders and traders - used Viking Longboat: capable of sailing the high seas but also shallow rives - marry peaceweavers
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Vikings
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- Viking settlement of "North men" - Carolingian kings are basically forced to recognize the vikins and that Normandy is their island. - these kings begin to marry off their daughters so they don't have to fight them.
Normandy
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- one of the first kings through all of England and promotes Anglo-Saxon language
Alfred the Great 871-899
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- christianized king who takes over and England is part of a Scandinavian empire - while in power he married the widow of the Anglo-Saxon King - did not last and the Anglo-Saxons ended up back in power in England
Cnut of Denmark, 1017-1035
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- on the English throne, but had spent much time in Normandy with his mothers family - blood related to Alfred the Great - married to a woman named Edith who was the daughter of the richest anglo-saxon lord in all of England. Her brother is Harold Godwinson and served as the Kings right hand man - this marriage never had any children - this is a problem when Edward becomes ill, and the line of blood relations in now soon to be ruined
Edward the Confessor 1042-1066
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- served under the King of England - sent by the King to tell William that he was going to be the heir to the throne- not sure if this really happened - crowned King in 1066- mysterious thing was spotted in the sky- a Star OR Haley’s Comet - this was taken as a sign that this was bad! -his place was taken by Harald Hardrada
Harold Godwinson
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- Connected to Cnut- Scandinavian not Anglo-Saxon
Harald Hardrada
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- “William the Bastard” - great fighter who was completely a Norman - when Edward actually died the Anglo-Saxons said that he turned to Harold Godwinson and said “you be the king” - conquered and crowned at Westminster on December 25,1066 - builds the tower of London
William, Duke of Normandy
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- October 14th 1066 - Harold gets killed
Battle of Hatings, 1066
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- embroidered tapestry that was almost like a giant comic strip
Bayeux Tapestry
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- Form of Census; inventory of the kingdom
Domesday book, 1086
