Trier

Section 42, Christ's Old Coat.

The little town of Trier, Treves, will soon wear a festive appearance.

Pilgrims will be flocking to it from all parts of Germany, and God knows from where besides.

Its handful of inhabitants have obtained licenses to open hotels and restaurants.

Such a precious relic is, of course, endowed with supernatural qualities.

It will heal the sick, cure cripples, and, let us hope, put brains into idiotic heads.

Hence the contemplated rush to Trier, where more people will congregate to see Christ's coat than ever assembled to hear him preach or see him crucified.

The pilgrims will not be allowed to examine the Holy Coat.

The Holy Roman Empire, to give it the full and proper name, was at this time ruled by the Habsburg Emperor Frederick III.

It consisted of a collection of states, including the seven electorates, namely the three Rhenish archbishoprics of Mainz, Mayence, Trier, Treves, and Köln, Cologne, and the four states of Bohemia, Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate.

Other important members of the empire were the group of the Austrian dominions, including Austria proper, Tyrol, East Schwabia, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, then divided between three branches of the Habsburg family, and the duchies of Bavaria and Württemberg.

These territories, which were already almost independent states, had all sprung from the larger feudal fiefs.

By 1472, he had, however, come to the conclusion that his purpose would be better served by uniting his dominions into a kingdom of the Rhine with the emperor's sanction.

A powerful new state on his western frontier was the last thing Frederick III desired to see.

Attracted for a moment by Charles' proposal of a marriage between his heiress, Mary of Burgundy, and the emperor's son, Maximilian, he consented to an interview at Trier.

But when Charles arrived with crown and scepter for his expected coronation in 1473, Frederick III, whose habit was never to face a difficulty when it could be shirked, crept away down the Moselle one night, and the disgusted duke returned no greater a man than he came.

There was, I believe, a genuine revolution.

in Roman politics and society at that time, when the Senate and the patrician class were stripped of their power, which was transferred to soldier emperors who set up their capital cities outside the city of Rome in places along the Roman frontiers of Milan, Nicomedia and Trier.

But this revolution wasn't just political, it was also religious.

The crisis of the 3rd century did permanent damage to the credibility of Rome's pagan gods, who'd been shown up as incapable of defending the empire.

The chief power was in the hands of the electors, seven princes, three spiritual and four temporal, who had the right of electing a new emperor.

These were the Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne, the Elector Palatine of the Rhine, the King of Bohemia, the Elector of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg.

The Diet or Legislative Assembly of the Empire was not representative but feudal, consisting only of the tenants-in-chief of the Emperor.

It met in three colleges, 1.

He hoped great things from Charles V, but when his expectations were not realized, he joined Zichingen in an attempt to bring about political and religious reform by means of the knights and their arms.

A league of the knights of the Upper Rhine was organized, all the members binding themselves to resist the encroachments of the princes and the exactions of Rome.

In 1522, Zichingen attacked his neighbor, the Elector of Trier.

He knew there was a strong Lutheran party in the city, and he hoped to win their support.

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The oldest town of Germany, founded by Romans in 16 BC.

Recording by Pamela Nagami Chapter 3 Progress of the Reforming Movement The Pontificate of Leo IX 1047-1054 Part 2 On October 3rd the pope opened the council.

He sat between four archbishops of Lyon, the primate of all Gaul, Trier, on which he had himself conferred metropolitan rights, Reims, and Besançon.

Sixteen other bishops were present and a large number of abbots.

England was represented by Duduc, Bishop of Wells, himself a Lotharingian, Wulfric, Abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury, and Elfwine, Abbot of Ramsey.

Adelheid was a woman of great ability and large possessions, and nearly connected by a former marriage with the emperor's family, and by this alliance between their children Henry hoped to establish a counterpoise to the power of Beatrice in northern Italy.

The emperor spent Easter at Goslar.

In June he was reconciled with Duke Godfrey at Trier, and permitted him to take back his wife and stepdaughter.

In September he was joined by the pope at Goslar and went with him to Bodfeld, a royal hunting seat in the Hartz Forest.

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Karl Marx was born in Trier, and that is particularly interesting for the Chinese, because they admire Marx very, very much.

That is why we as a city have a very intense relationship with China.

The Chinese then offered us that they would like to give us a sculpture for Karl Marx's 200th birthday.

We're building the base and in China the sculpture is being made.

We want to put it together in spring and that the sculpture can be exhibited on May 5.

Marx spent his childhood in Trier.

His father, a Jewish lawyer, is not permitted to continue his profession in Prussia.