Unit 3. The transition from Universal model to State model and its consequences: from 1648 to 1776” Flashcards
493-526
Reign of Theodoric the Great. Peak of the Ostrogoths’ presence in
Italy.
527-565
Justinian
552
The Byzantines occupy Italy following a devastating war against the
Ostrogoths
568
The Lombards, led by Alboin, invade Italy.
572
The Byzantines lose control of northern Italy (Lombardy), where
the Lombards found a kingdom with its capital at Pavia.
590-604
The Pontificate of Gregory I.
653
Byzantine Emperor Constans II orders the arrest of Pope Martin I, who dies in
exile
681
Emperor Constantine IV condemns Monothelitism (3rd council
of Constantinople, Sixth Ecumenical) in order to reconcile with Rome.
695
An anti-Byzantine rebellion breaks out in Ravenna.
715-731
Pontificate of Gregory II, who condemns the iconoclasts and confronts
Emperor Leo III the Isaurian and all Byzantium
732
Charles Martel defeats the Muslims at Poitiers and wields de facto power
in the kingdom of the Franks
741-752
The papacy of Zacharias, who signs a truce with the Lombard king
Liutprand
751
Pope Zacharias authorizes St. Boniface to crown Pepin the Short (Charles Martel’s
son) as the King of the Franks at Soissons, which means dethroning Childeric III,
the last Merovingian king.
754
Promissio carisiaca. Under this treaty Pope Stephen II commits to anointing Pepin
the Short as the king of the Franks and “Patrician of the Romans.” The Frankish
monarch recognizes the Pope’s territorial domain over the Duchy of Rome,
Exarchate and Pentapolis – the legal/territorial title making possible the emergence
of the Papal States
774
Charlemagne (son of Pepin the Short), King of the Franks since 768, after defeating
the Lombard king Desiderius and occupying Pavia, is acknowledged as King of the
Lombards. The Kingdom of Italy appears.
800, December 24
Charlemagne is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III
814-840
After Charlemagne’s death he is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious.
841, June 25
The Battle of Fontenoy in Puisaye. The defeat of Lothair, the eldest son of
Louis the Pious, by his brothers Charles and Louis.
843
Treaty of Verdun. The Empire of Charlemagne is divided.
875
Charles the Bald is crowned emperor by Pope John VIII in exchange for
relinquishing imperial authority over Rome and part of southern Italy, in favor of the
papacy.
911
Conrad I is elected the first king of Germany.
923
Dethronement of the Carolingian king Charles the Simple by Hugo the Great.
962
Otto I, Duke of Saxony, is crowned Emperor. He is the founder of the German
Holy Roman Empire (1st Reich), which would last until 1806.
987-996
Hugh Capet succeeds in leaving his throne to his son. Consolidation of the
hereditary dynasty in the Kingdom of the Franks and separation from of the Empire.