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Ep. 108 – From Saxony to Saxonies - The Fragmentation of the Great Stem duchy of Henry the Lion

History of the Germans

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Henry the Lion and the Count of Insenbruck

Henry the Lion was a brutal man, even by the standards of the time. He created an almost completely coherent territory from Hanover to northern Hess. Henry used military force to keep archbishop down and relied on his mate Frederick Barbarossa who expropriated were the bits of the Bremen Church in 1155. The bishop of Halberstadt was stripped of his feasts by Barbarossa in 1155 for failure to take part in the Italian campaign and then expelled in 1159 when he sided with Pope Alexander III during the schism. In Hildesheim the bishops minister Yales Basel shifted allegiance to the Episcopal duchy putting an end to the Bishop's ambitions

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