Medieval history of Germany

1200s–1669 trade confederation in Northern Europe

Frankish aristocratic family that ruled from the 5th century to 751

country in Western Europe from 843 to 962; predecessor to the Kingdom of Germany

military pact

(907-1805) duchy of Holy Roman Empire

thumb|Stages of German eastern settlement in pink and three shades of green; the black line represents Holy Roman Empire borders in 1348 thumb|German language areas in 1910 in today's Poland, [[Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), Lithuania, and Czech Republic before expulsion of Germans ]] '''' (, ) is the term for the early medieval and high medieval migration of Germanic peoples and Germanization of the areas populated by Slavic, Baltic and Uralic peoples; the most settled area is sometimes known today as . Germanization efforts included eastern parts of Francia, East Francia, and the Holy Roman Em

10th-century kingdom of Germany

historical county in the Low Countries

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former German state and dukedom

treaty

State of the Holy Roman Empire

medieval principality in the area of the modern German state of Saxony

landgraviate

principality of the Holy Roman Empire

historical territory

noble family

the language spread as a result of the expansion of the country

thumb|right|The Westphalian Hellweg (marked red) at Dortmund in 1610, map by Detmar Muhler In the Middle Ages, Hellweg was the official and common name given to main travelling routes in Germany. Their breadth was decreed as an unimpeded passageway a lance's width, about three metres, which the landholders, through which the Hellweg passed, were required to maintain.

ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire

Immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire

part of the Duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg

The Huosi family was one of the Uradel (ancient noble families) in the Duchy of Bavaria. Their status was enshrined in the Law of the Bavarians, which lists them first among the five families having special rights privileges after the ducal Agilolfing dynasty. The area where they held much land became known as the pagus Huosi or "Huosiland". This was the area between the rivers Isar and Lech and north of Freising.

northeastern region of Bavaria

historic Saxon vassal county, elevated to Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1235

Swabian noble family

thumb|230px|Meierhof in Scheeßel thumb|Pöllan Castle, a Meyerhof in Austria A Meierhof or Meyerhof (from ) was a farm or building which was occupied or had been occupied by the administrator (the Meier) of a noble or ecclesiastical estate.

western half of the central German stem duchy of Franconia in the 10th and 11th century

The village of Flemmingen is one of the eleven components of the cultural landscape Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut that has been proposed by the Federal Republic of Germany for inscription in the List of World Heritage. The World Heritage nomination is representative for the processes that shaped the continent during the High Middle Ages between 1000 and 1300: Christianization, the so-called “Landesausbau” and the dynamics of cultural exchange and transfer characteristic for this very period.

series of raids in the last decades of the 9th century

state of the Holy Roman Empire (1153–1303)