Where
did Riedls live and where did they come from we can only
guess.According to The Historical Research Center it was like that:
Among
Germans,which the kin of Riedl was in good relationship,there were
Saxons known as a fightloving people and when german countries were
in danger because of Hungarians,german dukes turn to Saxons to its
king, elected Jindøich-Saxon duke. Jindøich I. and his son
Otto I. stoped attacts from Hungarians and extended german territory
to the east Europe.This action had become known as Drang and
Osten.They achieved centralizated monarchy and created effective
administrate system,which prevent their rivals- german dukes- to take
over the power.
In
968 Otto I. established Holy Roman Empire and obtained pope support and
new resource of income from taxes in the north of Italy.Hoary ancesstors
of Riedl in 11th century were witnesses of the end of Saxon dynasty with
german dukes and princeses,successors of the king from Salian . Jindøich
III. (1039-56) extended the authority of Roman Catholic Church to its
main position, took down three rival popes and in 1046 arranged four
following popes. However, his successor was
Jindøich IV. and among his serfs we probably can put former members
of Riedl's family.He had to face to again comming papacy.The
Church had started to get together german princes against the
king.The same as before they wanted to get the power back, the one
which was taking from them by king.
This
effort,known as Investiture Cantroversy,had finished 1122 by victory
of pope and german's princes.However, the power of german
monarchy went up for a little while during the the reign of
Hohenstaufen dynasty.The first monarch was elected as a king in 1138
and the ancestors of Riedl's kin saw future in this dynasty till
1254.The most important monarch of Hohenstaufen Dynasty was Frindrich
I.(1152-90),more known as Frindrich I Barbarossa due to his ginger
beard.Fridrich Barbarossa was working as a companion of german
princes inside of feudal structure but his successors had to face to
pope-aristicratic coalition and to english and french attact in its
own inrerest.The power of king had started to fell down and only
Fridrich II.(1212-50),the grandson of Fridrich I. renewed its power
and stability.However, he was more interested in matters in Italy and
because he did not care about matters in German,homeland of Riedls,
the power was again split up between the army and german s princes.