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    Franz von Sickingen (2 March 1481 – 7 May 1523) was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire who, with Ulrich von Hutten, led the so-called "Knights' War," and...
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    Franz von Sickingen to forcibly remove Richard, Prince-Bishop of Trier and secularize his lands. The private feud resulted in the death of Sickingen and...
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    was a leader of the knights of the Holy Roman Empire along with Franz von Sickingen. Both were the leaders in the Knights' War. His life may be divided...
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    town he had raided several times. His fellow knights Georg von Frundsberg and Franz von Sickingen successfully argued for his release in 1522, but only after...
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    1750. Imperial Knight Franz von Sickingen (1481-1523) was a leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knighthood. The Sickingen-Sickingen line of the family died...
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    lords of Sickingen assumed responsibility for Landstuhl and the surrounding area. The most famous member of this dynasty was Franz von Sickingen. He converted...
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    Nanstein Castle (category House of Sickingen)
    the 12th century, the red sandstone rock castle was once owned by Franz von Sickingen who was mortally wounded during a siege of the castle in 1523. Frederick...
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    (1566-1631) and his wife Lucia von Sickingen (1569–1605), a granddaughter of Franz von Sickingen. His elder brother was Melchior von Hatzfeldt, Imperial field...
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    returned again to the Dukes of Lorraine two years later. In 1516, Franz von Sickingen (1481–1523) a German adventurer who wared at the expense of Geroldseck's...
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    He then began to work for the Reformation, with the support of Franz von Sickingen. Bucer's efforts to reform the church in Wissembourg resulted in...
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    Reuchlinian. At Heidelberg, Reuchlin had many private pupils, among whom Franz von Sickingen is the best-known name. With the monks he had never been liked; at...
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    (1976, TV miniseries) - Hoym, Bandit Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1979) - Franz von Sickingen Return to Treasure Island (1986, TV series)...
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    Karvajalka) by Mika Waltari. In 1841 a bust by Max von Widnmann was added to the Walhalla memorial. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria had a statue erected in...
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    Francisco Pizarro Franz von Sickingen Gerard Thom Geoffroi de Charny Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry Gilles de Rais Godfrey of Bouillon Götz von Berlichingen...
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    holding the new opinions who had settled there under the leadership of Franz von Sickingen. Oecolampadius returned to Basel in November 1522, as vicar of St...
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    knight, Franz von Sickingen (1481–1523), because most of the area belonged to the territory of the House of Sickingen in the Middle Ages. The Sickingen Heights...
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  • Maximilian I (1459–1519), Chevalier de Bayard (1476–1524), Franz von Sickingen (1481–1523) and Götz von Berlichingen (1480–1562). Maximilian (although Claude...
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    practice and philosophy in favor of drama, authoring a play called Franz von Sickingen, a Historical Tragedy. Sent anonymously to the Royal Theatre, the...
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  • (b. 1352) 1494 – Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471) 1523 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481) 1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer...
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    number of Protestant and religious humanist German knights led by Franz von Sickingen, against the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Emperor. It...
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  • Franz von Sickingen (1481-1523) and Ulrich von Hutten in the so-called Knights' War (1522-1523). It was quickly suppressed. Both von Hutten and von Sickingen...
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    became subsequently part of the Wittelsbach inheritance. In 1519, Franz von Sickingen became the owner of Nanstein Castle. He became a Protestant, and...
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  • referred to as "The Last Knight" Franz von Sickingen (2 March 1481 – 7 May 1523) was a German knight who, along with Ulrich von Hutten, led the Knights' War...
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    Schrottenberg Schütz Schwartzenberg Seckendorf Seefried Seinsheim Senfft Serpes Sickingen Siles Sodden Sohlern Sparr Spaur Specht Speshardt Speth Stadion (Steigerwald...
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    uprisings responded, first, the one of lower nobility, headed by Franz von Sickingen in 1523, and then, the great peasant's war, in 1525; both were crushed...
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    Walhalla (memorial) (category Leo von Klenze buildings)
    philosopher and humanist (Imhof, 1835) 38. Franz von Sickingen – leader of the Knights' War (von Bandel, 1827) 39. Ulrich von Hutten – German knight and Renaissance...
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    Reformer, had earlier stood by his cousin Franz von Sickingen in his attack on Trier and Worms, Archbishop Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads of Trier, Ludwig...
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    Ebernburg Castle (category House of Sickingen)
    seat of the lords of Sickingen, and the birthplace of Franz von Sickingen, the famous landsknecht captain and protector of Ulrich von Hutten, to whom a monument...
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  • and astrologer (d. 1512) 1459 – Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523) 1481 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (d. 1523) 1545 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and...
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  • took up arms. Franz von Sickingen (d. 1523), an imperial knight from the Rhineland, formed an alliance with his peers against Richard von Greiffenklau...
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