Northern Europe: King Frederick I of Germany dies without male issue. His appointed heir is his nephew Hermann, second son of the king of Luxemburg Giselbert I, but again the German dukes have other ideas and support one of their own, the ambitious Rudolf von Rheinfelden. After two years of infighting, treasons and small indecisive battles :confused: , a most important agreement is reached by Papal mediation at the Diet of Lüneburg, where the electoral character of the German crown ;) is officially sanctioned. The dukes of Saxony (which is now ruled by almost a century by the Billungs family), Bavaria, Thuringia, Franconia (now Hermann himself), Swabia, the Patriarch of Aquileia and the archbishops of Trier, Mainz, Cologne and Salzburg will choose the German king, with the last word to be