Karl H.E. Jordan
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Professor of Medieval and Modern History, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, West Germany. Editor of Die Urkunden Heinrichs des Löwen.
Primary Contributions (1)
Henry III was the duke of Saxony (1142–80) and of Bavaria (as Henry XII, 1156–80), a strong supporter of the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Henry spent his early years recovering his ancestral lands of Saxony (1142) and Bavaria (1154–56), thereafter founding the city of Munich (1157), enhancing…
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