WEEK IVWORDS etc.
HEXAGON
EMPIRE Since
c. 1000, Christendom knew 2 empires, a Western one based on coronations
at Rome but ruled by German kings, and another Greek one based on
Constantinople but called "Roman".
VIKINGS,
SARACENS (Muslims,
Arabs)
CASTLE "DONJON"/DUNGEON
TERRITORIAL PRINCIPALITIES
CAROLINGIAN
CORONATION SACRAL KINGSHIP
CAPETIANS MOST CHRISTIAN KING
ANGEVINS
LOUIS VI d. 1137 LOUIS VII
1137-80 PHILIP II AUGUSTUS 1180-1223
ROYAL DEMESNE/DOMAINS Demesne is, inter
alia, the lands a lord holds and manages himself without a subordinate
tenant
1st CRUSADE 1095 (COUNCIL OF CLERMONT) 1099 CAPTURE OF
JERUSALEM
3rd CRUSADE 1188-93
4th CRUSADE => CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1204
France and the
Hexagon
Meanings of "France"
Fragmentation of Carolingian Empire, Age of
Invasions?
Castles and Territorial
Principalities
Rise of Capetian authority from Paris outwards
1st from Ile-de-France
Then the confIdence trick
Confrontation with the
Angevins
Context for the Alibensian Crusade
Crusade