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During the [[Crusades]], Venice was a staging point on the way to the Holy Land for many Crusaders.

...me of Matilda/Maud on her marriage to [[Henry V]], the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman]] [[Emperor]], in 1114, aged 12. The marriage was childless and afte

...hough I'm going to go out on a ''huge'' limb here and call [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] an early humanist). If you are in [[Italy]] then you may l

...ess Matilda|Matilda]], otherwise known as Maud, who was the widow of the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] Henry V. He had his [[baron]]s (including Stephen) swear t

* [[Frederick Barbarossa]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]]

...(who was a first cousin of both '''Louis VII''' of [[France]] and of the [[Holy Roman Empire|Emperor]], '''Frederick I'''. By him she had a child, [[Baldw

...Kingdom of Jerusalem]] and provide care and comfort to [[pilgrim]]s in the Holy Land. They took their name from their chief [[hospital]] in Jerusalem itse

...rry Bela III of [[Hungary]] in 1185 (she died in 1197 in [[Acre]] in the [[Holy Land]])

...il 1060. He also married three times: two Matildas, one the daughter of [[Holy Roman Empire|Emperor]] '''Conrad II''', the other the daughter of the [[Mar ...derick I]] ''[[Barbarossa]]''''', but ill-health meant he had to leave the Holy Land early. His queen died, and he remarried, to Ingeborg of [[Denmark]],

The Holy See published a list of the longest serving popes earlier in 2013: [[http:/

...ts associated with royalty are generally believed to have begun with the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. By the end of the [[Middle Ages]] most of the [[Europe]]an

Sometimes the hero has no desire to return. Sir [[Galahad]]'s quest for the [[Holy Grail]] is to find it, not return with it. A return may, indeed, be impossi [[Image:Galahad grail.jpg|left|360px|thumb|"Vision of the Holy Grail" (1890) by [[wikipedia:William Morris|William Morris]]]]

...About a hundred years later, the Kingdom was absorbed whole hog by the [[Holy Roman Empire]] under [[Conrad II the Salian]] of [[East Francia]].

:1225-1228 > [[Frederick II]], [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman]] [[Emperor]]

A giver of healing, and holy too.

...tenders. Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Carolingian Empire, and, later, its Holy Roman successor, and the great kingdoms of Spian, France, and England, were

The [Wikipedia:Holy_Roman_Emperor|Holy Roman Emperor] [Wikipedia:Frederick_I%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor|Freidrick Barba

The primary focus of the Second Crusade was in the [[Holy Land]]. The first of the [[Crusader States]], the County of Edessa, was co Now Louis decided to complete the Journey to the [[Holy Land]] by ship. Although most of the lords managed to book passage to [[Ant

...ndy coast, in 1120; his daughter [[Empress Matilda|Matilda]] married the [[Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Henry V]]. He also had many (some say up to 25) illegit

...threat, particularly to the lucrative overland [[pilgrim]] route to the [[Holy Land]], Alexius I sent a plea for assistance to [[Pope]] [[Urban II]]. Urb