Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

As Elector of Saxony, Augustus was one of the nine electors who chose the Holy Roman Emperor. But in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, every nobleman was an elector, and an ‘election Sejm’ ...

Since January 2025, the tomb of Emperor Otto the Great in Magdeburg Cathedral has been the subject of extensive investigations. After the stone sarcophagus was opened in early March 2025, the work ...

Literally just a few kilometers from Germany, and situated in the heart of France’s Alsace region, is the stunningly ...

During the notoriously difficult harvest of 1524, when inclement weather had caused disastrous crop failures throughout the Holy Roman Empire, the countess of Lupfen ordered over a thousand of her ...

Naumburg Cathedral, located in the south of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, ... from northeastern France through the Middle Rhine areas to the eastern boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire and further to ...

Later in life, while governing the Holy Roman Empire as regent for her grandson, ... Among such women were the princess-abbesses of Quedlinburg in Saxony and the imperial abbesses in Zurich.

What is often forgotten, though, is Rubens’s illustrious career as a Holy Roman Empire diplomat. Turns out, ... Anna of Saxony, later, Peter Paul Rubens was born.

Christianity was introduced to parts of Germany around 300 AD by the Roman Empire, ... Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia were ... Catholic holy sites in ...

A lthough many of the potential readers of Tim Blanning’s latest book will not previously have heard of its hero – Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland – they will no doubt expect ...

Restoration workers at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, Germany have uncovered a surprising find 400 years in the making. Inside the leg of a statue, they found four bags stuffed with coins dating back ...