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| 1147 |
| | | The second crusade is led east by two kings, Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | In feudal France and Germany Charlemagne is by now venerated as a saint | |
|  | Reliquary head of Charlemagne
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| c. 1150 |
| | | German merchants begin trading along the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, a region to which they give the name Livonia | |
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| 1152 |
| | | Frederick Barbarossa becomes king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor, greatly extending the power of the empire during a long reign | |
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| 1159 |
| | | Henry the Lion builds a new town at Lübeck, well placed to develop as the centre of the Hanseatic League | |
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| c. 1180 |
| | | The shared memories and legends of Nordic peoples are brought together in a great German epic, the Nibelungenlied | |
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| 1197 |
| | | The three-year old Frederick II has a claim to the thrones of both Sicily and Germany on the death of his father, the emperor Henry VI | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | German pressure eastwards (the Drang nach Osten) steadily brings colonists into regions previously occupied by Slavs | |
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| c. 1205 |
| | | The story of Parsifal and the Holy Grail becomes the subject of a courtly epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach | |
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| 1220 |
| | | Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman emperor by a somewhat reluctant pope, Honorius III | |
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