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| Concerning what became of the Holy Roman Empire, again, from Wiki: “Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was the last to be crowned by the Pope in 1530. Even after the Reformation, the elected Emperor always was a Roman Catholic. ... The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor as a result of the collapse of the polity during the Napoleonic wars.” (7) From Wiki again, we learn about Frederick II: “Frederick II (26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225. His mother Constance was Queen of Sicily and his father was Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. Frederick's reign saw the Holy Roman Empire achieve its greatest territorial extent.” (8) Though the church and crown were supposed to work together, it was not always a smooth and harmonious marriage. In one of the letters from the “Calendar of Entries,” its revealed that “the pope eagerly desired, above all things, to overthrow Frederick, in order that he might more easily trample down the French and English kings of Christendom, all of whom he called petty princes and little serpents.” (9) In 1241 AD, Frederick wrote to King Henry that god had “decreed that the Machine of the World is to be governed, not alone by the priesthood, but by sovereignty and priesthood together.” (10) (Citation 11: A Great site for looking up all the landowners control going back to 1300) (11) The Houses of France and the Capetian Dynasty The House of France started with Hugh Capet, King of the Franks from 987 to 996. The Capetian Dynasty succeeded the Carolingian Dynasty and became the largest royal house in all of Europe. Eventually the House of Valois took over followed by the House of Bourbon but Capet and his sons founded another dozen Houses, including Évreux, Artois, Anjou, Dreux, Courtenay, Vermandois, and Burgundy. An early image of the “Coronation of Hugh Capet” has him dressed in red and blue with a red backdrop dotted with white and very representative of the A. muscaria imagery we see a lot of in the future of Christian art (67f).  (67f) Coronation of Hugh Capet Miniature from a Manuscript Paris, France c. 1300-1400 AD |
Next, we learn a little about the House of Lusignan from wiki: “The House of Lusignan (LOO-zin-yon) was a royal house of French origin. The family originated in Poitou, near Lusignan in western France, in the early 10th century. By the end of the 11th century, the family had risen to become the most prominent petty lords in the region from their castle at Lusignan. In the late 12th century, through marriages and inheritance, a cadet branch of the family came to control the kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus.” (12) Rome basically handed Ireland over to England’s King Henry II. Laudabiliter was a Papal Bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, which was said to have conferred authority for England to invade and govern Ireland in order to enforce the Gregorian reforms. Successive kings of England used the title Lord of Ireland and claimed Adrian’s successor Pope Alexander granted them authority. Irish kings were forced to take an “oath of fealty” to the English king and agree that the English’s church’s customs would be binding in Ireland. (13) A Roman Mushroom Marriage The divide between men and women in the church was growing wide and the emotions were fierce in the 12th century, when new reforms caused the wives of priests to fall under intense scrutiny. Rules toward men and celibacy were being imposed on church members who previously had wives and concubines. At the Synod of Pisa in 1135 and the Second Lateran Council in 1139, it was decreed that clerical marriages were invalid since their vows of ordination took precedence above all others. This caused a major social backlash against the church and riots took place throughout the 11th and 12th centuries in Italy, France and Germany when clerics would defy the bishop’s orders to keep hold of their wives. (14) One high ranking church leader Peter Damian (1007-72) went on a vicious tirade against the wives of the priests: “Come now, hear me, harlots, prostitutes, with your lascivious kisses, your wallowing places for fat pigs, resting places for unclean spirits, demigoddesses, sirens, witches ….. from you the devil is fattened by the abundance of your lust, is fed by your alluring feasts.” (15) (7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor (8)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_ Roman_Emperor,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (9) Middle Ages Revisited, p. 351 (10) ibid, p. 349 (11)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dukedoms_in_the_ peerages_of_Britain_and_Ireland (12) The Hidden World: Survival of Pagan Themes in European Fairytales, Carl A. P. Ruck, Blaise Daniel Staples, Jose Alfredo Gonzales Cedran, Mark Alwin Hoffman, Carolina Academic Press, 2007, p. 310-311; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lusignan (13) Serpent and the Goddess, p. 140; Gwynn, Henry of London, p. 299ff (14) Barstow, Attitudes Towards Priests' Wives (Paper Presenbted at the Berkshire Conference on Women's History, 1978), pp. 10-11 (15) Serpent and the Goddess, p. 146-47; Quoted in Barstow, "Attitudes", p. 8 |
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