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Imperial Knights

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Imperial Knights 

in the Holy Roman Empire (prior to 1806), the lower feudal gentry (primarily from the southern and western regions of Germany) who held imperial fiefs and were in direct vassal dependence on the emperor; the majority of these knights were former members of the imperial ministerials. They had no representation in the Reichstag. During the 15th and 16th centuries they were not strong enough to oppose the princes; they were ruined, and during the period of the decline of central power they became dependent on the princes. The Knights Uprising (1522–23), in which the knights rose up against the oppression of the princes, was suppressed. With the abolition of the empire (1806) the holdings of the imperial knights (approximately 5,000 sq km) were included in the states of the Confederation of the Rhine.
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He identifies approximately 410 families and studies their patterns over this long period: geographical distribution; separation from both the upper nobility and the burghers; fiefholding from Franconian princes, counts, and barons; monopolization of prebends in the cathedral chapters of Wurzburg and Bamberg; officeholding in territorial states; participation in tournaments; and the formation of the association of Imperial knights of Franconia.
Vom Lehnhof zur Reichsritterschaft. Strukturen des frankischen ... by Brady, Thomas A. Jr. / Canadian Journal of History
Wunderlich also offers an analysis of the tale and its significance in the context of the changing political structures of the late medieval Empire, the increasing power of the territorial princes, and the pressures to establish an imperial peace and prohibit feuding by the imperial knights, whose decline is reflected in the fate of Reynhardt: he ends his life as a builder's labourer.
Johann II. von Simmern; Die Haymonskinder by Morrall, E.J. / Medium Aevum
Travel back in time -- this year's Cosequin Hollywood Charity Horse Show includes exciting performances by medieval Imperial Knights and the Friesian Magic Team
ADVISORY/11th Annual Hollywood Charity Horse Show by Business Wire
 
 
 
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