Havelberg Bishopric

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Was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

January 1145: A diocese is again established in Havelberg, after it had been destroyed by the local Slavic tribes.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.Northern Crusades

The Northern Crusades (or Baltic Crusades) were Christian colonization and Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

1.1.1.Wendish Crusade

Was a military campaign in 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, led primarily by the Holy Roman Empire and directed against the Polabian Slavs (or "Wends") in present-day northeast Germany and Poland.

2. Mongol invasions and conquests

Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

2.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany

Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

2.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany

Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.

June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.