Lothair II

noun

1. the Saxon, c1070–1137, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of the Germans 1125–37.

Lothair II

noun

1. Lothair II?10701137MGermanPOLITICS: hereditary ruler called the Saxon. ?1070–1137, German king (1125–37) and Holy Roman Emperor (1133–37). He was elected German king over the hereditary Hohenstaufen claimant

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The question of the divorce of Lothair II., king of Lorraine, who had repudiated his wife Theutberga to marry his concubine Waldrada, engaged Hincmar’s literary activities in another direction.

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His wife Bertha defended Vienne unsuccessfully against Charles the Bald in 870, and Girard, who had perhaps aspired to be the titular ruler of the northern part of Provence, which he had continued to administer under Lothair II. until that prince’s death in 869, retired with his wife to Avignon, where he died probably in 877, certainly before 879.

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He managed to become king of Lorraine on the death Division of the kingdom into large fiefs. of his nephew Lothair II., and emperor and king of Germany on that of his other nephew Louis II.

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Towards the middle of the 12th century Lothair II. revived this system, conferring the rectorate on Conrad of Z�hringen, in whose family it remained hereditary up to the death of the last representative of the house, Berthold V., in 1218; and it was the lords of Z�hringen who were foremost in defending the cause of the Empire against its chief adversaries, the counts of Burgundy.

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In 884 the death of Carloman brought into his possession the west Frankish realm, and in 885 he got rid of his rival Hugh of Alsace, an illegitimate son of Lothair II., taking him prisoner by treachery and putting out his eyes.

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