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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅( at the beginning of the year fire - buffalo丁丑)

Era of Diocletian: 634/635 ( year November )

Syria: 1229/30 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Holy Roman Empire

  • Traditional date for the beginning of the High Middle Ages in the German imperial history.
  • King Conrad I of the East Franks leads an unsuccessful campaign against the rebellious Duke Arnulf I. the evil of Bavaria. He died at his ancestral castle in Weilburg on December 23 and is buried in the monastery of Fulda. Before his death, he asks his brother Eberhard, the great opponent of Duke Henry I of Saxony to bear the royal dignity.

Western Europe

  • Count Baldwin II, the Bald, of Flanders, who has, through his wife Elftrud of Wessex close relations with England, dies. He is followed by his son Arnulf.
  • King Constantine II of Scotland kicks in alliance with the English, the Danes in Northumbria at Corbridge -on- Tyne.
  • Battle of Talavera, Abd ar -Rahman III .. defeats a Christian army.

Eastern Europe

Died

  • December 23: Conrad I, King of Ostfrankenreichs (* 881 )
  • Ethelfleda, daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex (c. 872 )
  • William I, Count of Auvergne and Duke of Aquitaine
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