HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS

HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS(including dates of reign)
Saxon dynasty
Otto I, 936–73
Otto II, 973–83
Otto III, 983–1002
Henry II, 1002–24
Salian or Franconian dynasty
Conrad II, 1024–39
Henry III, 1039–56
Henry IV, 1056–1105
Henry V, 1105–25
Lothair II, duke of Saxony, 1125–37
Hohenstaufen dynasty and rivals
Conrad III, 1138–52
Frederick I, 1152–90
Henry VI, 1190–97
Philip of Swabia, 1198–1208
antiking: Otto IV (Guelph), 1198–1208
Otto IV (king, 1208–12; emperor, 1209–15), 1208–15
Frederick II (king, 1212–20; emperor, 1220–50), 1212–50
Conrad IV, 1237–54
antiking: Henry Raspe, 1246–47
antiking: William, count of Holland, 1247–56
Interregnum, 1254–73
Richard, earl of Cornwall, and Alfonso X of Castile, rivals
Hapsburg, Luxemburg, and other dynasties
Rudolf I (Hapsburg), 1273–91
Adolf of Nassau, 1292–98
Albert I (Hapsburg), 1298–1308
Henry VII (Luxemburg), 1308–13
Louis IV (Wittelsbach), 1314–46
Charles IV (Luxemburg), 1346–78
Wenceslaus (Luxemburg), 1378–1400
Rupert (Wittelsbach), 1400–1410
Sigismund (Luxemburg), 1410–37
Hapsburg dynasty
Albert II, 1438–39
Frederick III, 1440–93
Maximilian I, 1493–1519
Charles V, 1519–58
Ferdinand I, 1558–64
Maximilian II, 1564–76
Rudolf II, 1576–1612
Matthias, 1612–19
Ferdinand II, 1619–37
Ferdinand III, 1637–57
Leopold I, 1658–1705
Joseph I, 1705–11
Charles VI, 1711–40
Interregnum (1740–42) and other dynasties
Charles VII (Wittelsbach-Hapsburg), 1742–45
Francis I (Lorraine), 1745–65
Hapsburg-Lorraine dynasty
Joseph II, 1765–90
Leopold II, 1790–92
Francis II, 1792–1806
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Germany's Northern Challenge: The Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Struggle for the Baltic, 1563-1576
Book by Jason Lavery; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Baltic Sea Region--History, Hanseatic League--History, Holy Roman Empire--Foreign Relations--Sweden, Holy Roman Empire--History--Maximilian Ii, 1564-1576, Northern Seven Years' War, 1563-1570, Sweden--Foreign Relations--Holy Roman Empire, Sweden--History--Eric Xiv, 1560-1568, Sweden--History--John Iii, 1567-1592
...gious strife in the Holy Roman Empire of the German...reform, during which emperors and estates had sought...judged the Habsburg Holy Roman emperors harshly because of...Copenhagen?4 The Holy Roman emperors of this period considered...
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German History, 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Book by Eric Dorn Brose; Berghahn Books, 1997
Subjects: Conservatism--Germany, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, Germany--Economic Conditions--19th Century, Germany--Intellectual Life, Germany--Politics And Government--1789-1900, Holy Roman Empire--History--Francis Ii, 1792-1806
...equilibrium of the Holy Roman Empire was no...threatened by the emperors, whose imperial...authority of the Holy Roman Emperors, schemed unsuccessfully...takeovers altered the Holy Roman Empire beyond...remained. The emperors influence, so...
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Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
Book by Mack Walker; University of North Carolina Press, 1981
Subjects: Constitutional History--Holy Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire--History--1648-1804, Moser, Johann Jakob--1701-1785, Political Scientists--Germany
...the three most recent emperors, from Leopold I to the...because the system of Roman law, which for some centuries...Law Literature of the Holy Roman Empire Chicago, 1973...itself, at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor of the German...
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Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century
Book by Theodor E. Mommsen, Karl F. Morrison, Robert L. Benson; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: Biography--11th Century, Conrad--Ii--Holy Roman Emperor--Ca. 990-1039, Emperors--Biography, Henry--Iv--Holy Roman Emperor--1050-1106
...2. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, loso-II06 3. Emperors-Biography. 4...force of arms the holy Church of Christ...pray for the Emperors military success...would leave the Roman Church to Henry...guard her as your holy mother, and set...
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Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century
Book by Theodor E. Mommsen, Karl F. Morrison, Robert L. Benson, Karl Morrison F.; Columbia University Press, 1962
Subjects: Biography--11th Century, Conrad--Ii--Holy Roman Emperor--Ca. 990-1039, Emperors--Biography, Henry--Iv--Holy Roman Emperor--1050-1106
...force of arms the holy Church of Christ...to pray for the Emperors military success...something sent out by the Roman See indicates not...fragments of the Holy Cross, 69 "through...he would leave the Roman Church to Henry...guard her as your holy mother, and set your...
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Charles V 'Universal Soldier'
Journal article by Glenn Richardson; History Review, 2000
Subjects: Charles V--Biography, Roman emperors--Biography
...succeed Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor after paying 835...battle of Pavia on the emperors 25th birthday. Francis...contributed most to the emperors disillusionment, his mental...1519 elected Holy Roman Emperor...
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Why Did the HABSBURG-VALOIS Conflict Last for So Long?
Journal article by Stewart Macdonald; History Review, 1999
Subjects: France--History, Holy Roman Empire--History, Military history--16th century, Sixteenth century--Military aspects
...1519 he was elected Holy Roman Emperor, ruler of Germany...France. However, the Emperors authority varied from...line. However, Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors believed that the Duchy...Charles elected Holy Roman Emperor...
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Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti, the War of Cambrai, and the Rise of Habsburg Hegemony, 1509-1530 [*]
Journal article by Robert Finlay; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Gritti, Andrea--Military policy, Holy Roman Empire--History, Venice, Italy--History
...of August and September 1509, the Emperors army bombarded and attacked Padua...patrician lamented: "It seems like Holy Week now rather than Carnival, for...after the latter won election as Holy Roman Emperor. From October 1520 to March...
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The Ottomans in Europe
Journal article by Geoffrey Woodward; History Review, 2001
Subjects: Colonization--Turkey, Europe--16th century, Holy Roman Empire--History, Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--History, Turkey--History, Turks--Influence
...Europe was dramatic. The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, absent...century, the Habsburg emperors strengthened their frontier...ii) The impact on the Holy Roman Empire Largely for reasons...of Spain (1516-56) and Holy Roman Emperor (1519-58), he...
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Saving an Empire: The Contribution of John Wenzel Count Wratislaw to the Turnaround in 1704
Journal article by Henry Delfiner; East European Quarterly, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Bohemia--History, Diplomats--Biography, Holy Roman Empire--History, Wratislaw, Johann Wenzel--Biography
...strictly obedient to the Emperors wishes but that the method...Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire which at that time...the preservation of the Holy Roman Empire for another century...Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, who sent him congratulatory...
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The Ideal of Unity; Russell Chamberlin Examines the Origins and Development of Europe's Persistent Vision of Unity from the Birth of the Holy Roman Empire to Its Fall
Magazine article by Russell Chamberlin; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003
Subjects: Europe--History, Europe--Political aspects, European federation--History, European federation--Political aspects, European federation--Social aspects
...Voltaires gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true...post-classical Western Emperors was Charles, Most Serene...great historian of the Holy Roman Empire, agreed that a...long perspective of the Holy Roman Empire is a melancholy...
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York's Roman Emperor: Peter Furtado Previews a Major Exhibition Opening in York at the End of the Month
Magazine article by Peter Furtado; History Today, Vol. 56, March 2006
Subjects: Constantine I, Emperor of Rome--Behavior, Roman Britain, 43-449--History, Roman emperors--History
...St Peters in Rome and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and quickly made...though, doubts his pivotal role in late Roman history, or the importance of what happened...the hippodrome in Constantinople, the Emperors new capital. The old religions are well...
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Charles V: Europe's Last Emperor?
Magazine article by Russell Chamberlin; History Today, Vol. 50, February 2000
Subjects: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor--Conduct of life, Emperors--Conduct of life, Ghent, Belgium--History, Travel industry--Belgium
...was that Clement personally crowned Charles, the last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned by a pope. Irony often attended...Charless hunting crossbow, jewellery and furniture. The Emperors life coincided with the flowering of the High Renaissance...
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Death of Emperor Otto III: January 23rd, 1002
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 52, January 2002
Subjects: Germany--History, Kings and rulers--Biography, Otto III--Biography, Roman emperors--Biography, Rome (Ancient)--History
...III SUCCEEDED to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire at the age of three, which...994, Otto determined to recreate the Roman Empire of old as a universal Christian...German pope, duly crowned Otto as Roman Emperor in May, but as soon as Otto...
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Charles V Defeats German Protestants in Battle at Muhlberg
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 47, April 1997
Subjects: Catholic Church in Germany--History, Catholic Church--relations with Protestant Churches, Charles V, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire--Military policy, Germany--History, Reformation--Military aspects
...Reformers. The formal powers of the Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles was) over his...the papal reinforcements that the emperors troops were awaiting from Italy...echoing the iconography of victorious Roman emperors. But this triumph was not to last...
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Aidan Plays Catch-Up; Emperor's Loss Throws Ballydoyle
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 27, 2007
Aidan Plays Catch-Up; Emperors Loss Throws Ballydoyle...losing star three-year-old Holy Roman Emperor became apparent...in the 2,000 Guineas. Holy Roman Emperor, whose first two...I was concentrating on Holy Roman Emperor beating Teofilo...
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Games: Fight to the Death with Crusaders in the Holy Land
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), September 28, 2007
...powers such as England, France and the Holy Roman Empire. Coupled with the games real-time...new areas of the world for would-be emperors to conquer. The game features four...through the desert to reclaim the Holy Land or drive out the infidels. Your...
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1,000 Years of Beauty; HOLY ALLIANCE: A 13th Century Processional Cross, Flanked by Images of the Archangel Michael, Left, and St Stephen
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 2, 2008
...established as the Eastern hub of the Roman Empire in the 4th Century by Constantine...ivory caskets and portraits in ivory of holy figures, some startlingly realistic; there...God. In the 9th Century, a succession of emperors and an empress were concerned with iconoclasm...
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Brooch-Ing the Subject of Coventina. THIS Week Time Tunnel Takes a Look at Coventry's Roman Heritage. TIME TUNNEL: DAVID McGRORY TURNS THE CLOCK BACK TO.. 1792
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 12, 2005
...Roman copper coins, principally of the emperors Constantine, Constans, Constantius and...quantity of better preserved coins. This Roman hoard which must have contained more than...capital built into the wall of the vestry in Holy Trinity Church is the same as found at...
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Horse Racing: WASHINGTON TEST
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 27, 2007
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
...The winner of the 2,000 Guineas and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes proved infertile in his stud role which caused Holy Roman Emperors retirement as his replacement. OBrien explained, "Hes is in pre-training, but I havent seen much of him yet. Well...
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encyclopedia articles on: Holy Roman Emperors  - 58 results

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Holy Roman Emperors
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS (table) HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS ( including dates of reign ) Saxon dynasty Otto I, 936 73 Otto II, 973 83 Otto III, 983 1002 Henry II, 1002 24 Salian or Franconian dynasty Conrad II, 1024 39 Henry...
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Holy Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE designation...For a list of all emperors from Otto I to Francis...table entitled Holy Roman Emperors . Origins The...of the Hapsburg emperors and the interests...then known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German...
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Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...electors as antiking to Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV . Louiss...conflict between popes and emperors, during which time the...papal interference in the Holy Roman Empire by eliminating...approval and confirmation of emperors. Although he had virtually...
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Ferdinand II , Holy Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bohemia (1617 37) and of Hungary (1618 37); successor of Holy Roman Emperor Matthias. Grandson of Ferdinand I , son of...was chosen successor to Matthias and became, before the emperors death, king of Bohemia and Hungary. His Catholicism...
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Frederick II , Holy Roman Emperor and German King
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pope Innocent III that when crowned Holy Roman emperor he would separate Sicily...Council of Lyons (1245), and gave the emperors foes the privileges of Crusaders...Italy began. The interregnum (see Holy Roman Empire ) ended only with the election...
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