History Trivia

April 13, 1111 Henry V was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.Henry restored,for the most part,peace within the empire and was successful in wars with Bohemia,Flanders, Hungary and Poland. He also perpetuated the Investiture Controversy, striving for the rights of the crown over the papacy.1204 Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1250 The Seventh Crusade was defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France was captured. 1256 The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. 1598 Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)