HANDOUT FOR NOV. 27: THE TENTH CENTURY
East Frankish Kingdom (Germany):
911 Death of last Carolingian in east.
919-936: Henry the Fowler, first Saxon king and founder of "Ottonian" dynasty.
936-973: Otto I
973-983: Otto II
983-1002: Otto III
Liudprand of Cremona (d.972), wrote history of Otto I’s reign.
West Frankish Kingdom (France):
987: Hugh Capet elected king.
Ecclesiastical:
897: "Cadaver Synod" in Rome: a dead pope is exhumed and put on trial by his successor.
909: Foundation of monastery at Cluny. By 1000, there are 30 Cluniac monasteries; by 1100, there are 600.
955-964: Pope John XII, allegedly stricken dead while committing adultery.
c.975: "Peace of God" movement begins in France.
999-1003: Gerbert of Aurillac, Pope Sylvester II.
1001: King Stephen of Hungary accepts Christianity.