Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Part I General Themes
- Part II The States of the West
- 13 The British Isles
- 14 France
- 15 Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch
- 16 The empire
- (a) From Adolf of Nassau to Lewis of Bavaria, 1292–1347
- (b) The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347–1410
- 17 The Low Countries, 1290–1415
- 18 The Iberian Peninsula
- Part III The Church and Politics
- Part IV Northern and Eastern Europe
- Appendix Genealogical Tables
- Primary Sources and Secondary Works Arranged by Chapter
- Index
- Frontispiece
- Plate section
- Map 4 Europe's trade, c. 1300
- Map 5 Europe's trade, c. 1400
- Map 7 The Hundred Years War to 1360
- Map 15 Russia, c. 1396
- Map 17 The Byzantine empire in the 1340s
- References
(b) - The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347–1410
from 16 - The empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Part I General Themes
- Part II The States of the West
- 13 The British Isles
- 14 France
- 15 Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch
- 16 The empire
- (a) From Adolf of Nassau to Lewis of Bavaria, 1292–1347
- (b) The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347–1410
- 17 The Low Countries, 1290–1415
- 18 The Iberian Peninsula
- Part III The Church and Politics
- Part IV Northern and Eastern Europe
- Appendix Genealogical Tables
- Primary Sources and Secondary Works Arranged by Chapter
- Index
- Frontispiece
- Plate section
- Map 4 Europe's trade, c. 1300
- Map 5 Europe's trade, c. 1400
- Map 7 The Hundred Years War to 1360
- Map 15 Russia, c. 1396
- Map 17 The Byzantine empire in the 1340s
- References
Summary
political development under charles iv (1346–1378)
in view of the complex political situation that prevailed in the empire (on both an international and a domestic level) towards the end of the reign of Lewis IV of Bavaria, it seemed likely that the transfer of power from the Wittelsbac hs to the Luxemburgs would be a very turbulent process, if indeed it took place at all. The young Charles, son of the Bohemian King John of Luxemburg and grandson of Henry VII, was elected king of the Romans at the direct instigation of the papal curia, which was implacably opposed to the ageing Wittelsbach. Matters having been brought to a head by the intrigues of the Luxemburg side at Avignon, the election of Charles represented an attempt to resolve the situation. During negotiations, the Bohemian delegation made a whole series of far-reaching promises (of a political and military nature) to the pope. These were mainly concerned with concessions to France, as well as various prerogatives of the papacy with regard to its involvement in imperial affairs. The participants thus had every reason to denounce Charles as a papal stooge (Pfaffenkaiser).
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- The New Cambridge Medieval History , pp. 551 - 569Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000