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The Imperial Knighthood was a regional phenomenon limited to southwestern and south-central Germany—Swabia, Franconia and the Middle Rhine area—zones which were highly fragmented politically and where no powerful states were able to develop.
The Knights' War, also known as the Imperial Knights' Revolt (27 August 1522 – 6 May 1523), was a failed attempt by the Brotherly Convention (of knights) led by the Evangelical knight Franz von Sickingen to forcibly remove Richard, Prince-Bishop of Trier and secularize his lands.
Imperial Knights (1 C, 18 P) M. Medieval German knights (21 P) O. ... Pages in category "German knights" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Gottfried "Götz" von Berlichingen (pronounced [ˈgɔtfʁiːd fɔn ˈbɛʁlɪçɪŋən], ; 15 November 1480 – 23 July 1562), also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, was a German Imperial Knight (Reichsritter), mercenary and poet. He was born around 1480 into the noble family of Berlichingen in modern-day Baden-Württemberg.
Although thirty-nine patrician families owned the sovereignty of some 3,000 peasant backstreets in the Nuremberg environs, they were denied equal status by the knightly nobility of the Franconian Knights' Circle, the circle of the imperial knighthood surrounding the city, with the exception of the Rieters of Kornburg.
By contrast, the free imperial city of Nuremberg emerged from the Margrave War victorious and, at the end of the Middle Ages, had the largest imperial municipal area in all of Germany. The decline of chivalry at the end of the Hohenstaufen period and the increasing use of mercenaries, meant that numerous knights lost their livelihood and became ...
Nobles and Nation in Central Europe: Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139456098. Hurwich, Judith J. "Marriage strategies among the German nobility, 1400–1699," Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1998) 29#2:169–195. Kaudelka-Hanisch, Karin.
The word and its German translations, Ministeriale(n) and Dienstmann, came to describe those unfree nobles who made up a large majority of what could be described as the German knighthood during that time. What began as an irregular arrangement of workers with a wide variety of duties and restrictions rose in status and wealth to become the ...