The Hussites, on the other hand, who broke away from the Holy Roman Empire in both political and religious senses, were heretics. |
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In theory, all the princes in the Holy Roman Empire were subservient to the emperor. |
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Visit Heidelberg Castle, once the residence of the Counts Palatine of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point. |
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The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In 800, Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the pope himself. |
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And like the Holy Roman Empire it becomes a ghost, a sham, a memory, a misty nothing. |
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Something similar occurred at the same time in Regensburg, near Nuremberg, where the electors of the Holy Roman Empire met at regular intervals. |
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The whole composition is surmounted by the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The Benedictines, really the Black Monks, came into their own after 800 AD when the pope and the Franks formed an alliance known as the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In 1356 the Counts Palatine were made Electors of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In 1902, Mercy dArgenteau, the Princess de Montyglyon, a Belgian countess and hereditary princess of the Holy Roman Empire, journeyed to St. Petersburg, Russia. |
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It will largely be set in Sardinia where the teenage Bond runs into a group of Sardinian bandits and a mad Italian count who is trying to restore the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Until 1806, the regulations became part of the constitutional laws of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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From 1032 Provence had been a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire in the imperial Kingdom of Burgundy. |
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While the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy were in conflict, it often fell to secular leaders to campaign. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of large and petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor. |
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In 1701, England, Portugal and the Netherlands sided with the Holy Roman Empire against Spain and France in the War of the Spanish Succession. |
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Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In the 18th century, the Holy Roman Empire consisted of approximately 1,800 territories. |
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Meanwhile, rising power Prussia was struggling with Austria for dominance within and outside the Holy Roman Empire in central Europe. |
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Also, by promising to vote for Joseph II in the Imperial elections, Frederick II accepted the Habsburg preeminence in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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This led in 962 to the founding of the Holy Roman Empire, which eventually became centred in the German principalities of central Europe. |
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It was on this date that Liechtenstein became a sovereign member state of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The Kingdom of Bohemia was, as the only kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, a significant regional power during the Middle Ages. |
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The end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 led to degradation of the political status of the Kingdom of Bohemia. |
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Bohemia lost its position of an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire as well as its own political representation in the Imperial Diet. |
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Over the next 500 years, most kings of Germany destined to reign over the Holy Roman Empire were crowned in Aachen. |
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The provenance of the Code appealed to scholars who saw in the Holy Roman Empire a revival of venerable precedents from the classical heritage. |
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Meanwhile, Henry attempted to influence the outcomes of the elections in the Holy Roman Empire, which would appoint a new King of the Romans. |
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It also saw a long set of wars, known as the Italian Wars, between the Kingdom of France and the powerful Holy Roman Empire. |
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Alfonso worked for being elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and published the Siete Partidas code. |
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Although such alliances formed throughout the Holy Roman Empire, the league never became a closely managed formal organisation. |
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Poland in turn was heavily supported by the Holy Roman Empire through family connections and by military assistance under the Habsburgs. |
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Its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire is supported by the many castles and fortifications built along it. |
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He allied himself with the leaders of Flanders, Boulogne and the Holy Roman Empire to apply pressure on Philip from Germany. |
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Richard became a noted European leader and ultimately the King of the Romans in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In 1208, Philip of Swabia, the successful candidate to assume the throne of the Holy Roman Empire, was assassinated. |
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Brabant, unlike the county of Flanders, was not fief of the king of France but was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire. |
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At the onset of the early modern period, the great European powers were France, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. |
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Saxon Holstein became a part of the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne's Saxon campaigns in the late eighth century. |
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The latter was a fief subordinate to the Holy Roman Empire, while Schleswig remained a Danish fief. |
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Unlike Holstein, however, Schleswig did not belong to the German Holy Roman Empire. |
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Alsace historically was part of the Holy Roman Empire and the German realm of culture. |
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Charlemagne's reign marked the beginning of a new Germanic Roman Empire in the west, the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The Holy Roman Empire emerged around 800, as Charlemagne, king of the Franks, was crowned by the pope as emperor. |
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The subsequent period, ending around 1000, saw the further growth of feudalism, which weakened the Holy Roman Empire. |
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After Otto I was crowned as the Emperor in Rome in 962 the era of the Holy Roman Empire began. |
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Although Albert himself only reigned for a year, henceforth every emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was a Habsburg, with only one exception. |
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The free city of Cologne must not be confused with the Archbishopric of Cologne which was a state of its own within the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In 870, it became part of Eastern Francia, which developed into the Holy Roman Empire. |
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It was the capital of the Electorate of Mainz at the time of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The civil wars of medieval Scandinavia and the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire are part of its legacy. |
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The empire would remain in continuous existence for nearly a millennium, as the Holy Roman Empire, a true imperial successor to Charles. |
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Charlemagne was revered as a saint in the Holy Roman Empire after the twelfth century. |
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Although nominally part of the Holy Roman Empire, in practice it possessed a large degree of independence. |
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It became useful for international communication between the member states of the Holy Roman Empire and its allies. |
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The Byzantine Empire considered Constantine its founder and the Holy Roman Empire reckoned him among the venerable figures of its tradition. |
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Richard would surrender the kingdom of England to Henry, who would then give it back as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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France, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and the Hanseatic League all rejected the treaty, which was never in force. |
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In 1510, France, with a fragile alliance with the Holy Roman Empire in the League of Cambrai, was winning a war against Venice. |
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Napoleon won the War of the Third Coalition at Austerlitz, forcing the Austrian Empire out of the war, formally dissolving the Holy Roman Empire. |
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He dissolved the Holy Roman Empire prior to German Unification later in the 19th century. |
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After dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, he reduced the number of German states from 300 to less than 50, prior to the German Unification. |
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The Seventeen Provinces had been unified by Charles's Burgundian ancestors, but nominally were fiefs of either France or the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The Albigensians were strong in southern France, northern Italy, and the southwestern Holy Roman Empire. |
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Many northern cities of the Holy Roman Empire became hanseatic cities, including Amsterdam, Cologne, Bremen, Hanover and Berlin. |
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In the early modern period, the Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor. |
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The Holy Roman Empire became eventually composed of four kingdoms and numerous other territories. |
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Before Charles's reign in the Holy Roman Empire began, in 1517, Martin Luther launched what would later be known as the Reformation. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was not a highly centralized state like most countries today. |
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In the Holy Roman Empire, the main dukes and bishops of the kingdom elected the King of the Romans. |
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From the late 15th century, the Holy Roman Empire came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. |
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A map of Holy Roman Empire in 1400, reflecting the German society's regional diversity. |
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This formed a rare union of rural and urban communes, all of which enjoyed imperial immediacy in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Some of the lawsuits were not brought to an end by the time it was dissolved in 1806 following the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Later, ideas of the west were formed by the concepts of Latin Christendom and the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Even after the end of the Holy Roman Empire, this competition influenced the growth and development of nationalist movements in the 19th century. |
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Austria's sphere expanded throughout much of the Central European territories formerly held by the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Genoa began to gain autonomy from the Holy Roman Empire around 1096, becoming a medieval commune and participating in the First Crusades. |
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Ancona always had to guard itself against the designs of both the Holy Roman Empire and the papacy. |
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Other potential claimants, such as the Republic of Venice and the Holy Roman Empire have disintegrated into history. |
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While Philip was also a German archduke of the House of Habsburg, he was seen as a foreigner in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In October 1555, Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire began the gradual abdication of his several crowns. |
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At the end of the 10th century, the Scheldt became the boundary of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In addition to the Holy Roman Empire, Charles personally ruled Spain, Austria, and a number of smaller possessions neighboring France. |
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In Northern Europe and at the court of the Holy Roman Empire, however, the country was known under its own name, Russia or Rossia. |
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The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. |
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This was a general assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a town on the Rhine. |
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In August he set off for Strasbourg, a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire and a refuge for reformers. |
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The first territory to wholly adapt the inquisitional system was the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In the 15th century, reception in complexu reached the Netherlands while it was associated with the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was unified with Spain under the Habsburg Dynasty after Charles V inherited several domains. |
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An atheocracy of the Marxian type is as intolerant of liberty of thought as any Holy Roman Empire or Bible-ridden company of Puritans. |
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They ruled over Cologne and other bishoprics in the northwest of the Holy Roman Empire as well. |
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Still called by its historical name of Ratisbon, it was the seat of the Imperial Diet and diplomatic centre of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The pope gladly accepted the role, as it allowed him to detach Sicily from the rest of The Holy Roman Empire, thus ending the spectre of the Papal States being surrounded. |
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The bull declared that the King of Bohemia would be exempt from all future obligations to the Holy Roman Empire except for participation in imperial councils. |
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Following the treaty of Verdun of 843, Alemannia became a province of the eastern kingdom of Louis the German, the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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This marked the beginning of what later was called the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Pope Clement VII had become fearful of the ambitions of the Holy Roman Empire in Italy, and he negotiated with Venice to form the League of Cognac. |
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Marches were territorial organisations created as borderlands in the Carolingian Empire and had a long career as purely conventional designations under the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The only princely member state of the Holy Roman Empire that has preserved its status as a monarchy until today is the Principality of Liechtenstein. |
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For the Habsburgs as a whole, the result was mixed too, as the war had weakened their position in the Holy Roman Empire and led to the separation of Charles' realms. |
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In 1556 he abdicated from his positions, giving his Spanish empire to his only surviving son, Philip II of Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire to his brother, Ferdinand. |
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Originally part of the Holy Roman Empire, around 300 independent German states emerged during its decline after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ending the Thirty Years War. |
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Holy Roman Empire in 1600 superimposed on modern state borders. |
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Religion in the Holy Roman Empire on the eve of the Thirty Years' War. |
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However, the annexed territories though incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Realm, were not legally considered as a part of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Germans, for the most part, had been a loose and disunited people since the Reformation when the Holy Roman Empire was shattered into a patchwork of states. |
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It became the anthem of the Austrian Empire after the end of the Holy Roman Empire with revised lyrics, its tune ultimately being used for the German national anthem. |
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At the Peace of Westphalia, the Swiss delegation was granted formal recognition of the confederacy as a state independent of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In return for protection and patronage Ockham wrote treatises that argued for emperor Louis to have supreme control over church and state in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The Swiss victory in the Swabian War against the Swabian League of Emperor Maximilian I in 1499 amounted to de facto independence within the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Though they were technically part of the Holy Roman Empire, they had become de facto independent when the Swiss defeated Emperor Maximillian in 1499 in Dornach. |
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The Protestant movement of the 16th century occurred under the protection of the Electorate of Saxony, an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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The elder brother of Archduke Charles, Emperor Joseph I, died in April 1711 and Charles succeeded him in Austria, Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Tolls were used in the Holy Roman Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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Unification was achieved by building on a tradition of legal collaboration under the Holy Roman Empire and economic collaboration through the Zollverein. |
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The early modern period is taken to end with the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire at the Congress of Vienna. |
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When they refused, he tried again to persuade the governments of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic to establish a colony in Panama, but failed in both cases. |
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After their victories over European knights at Legnica and Muhi, Mongol armies quickly advanced across Bohemia, Serbia, Babenberg Austria and then into the Holy Roman Empire. |
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With the ascent of Charles I in 1516 and his election as sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire in 1519, Francis I of France found himself surrounded by Habsburg territories. |
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By that time his Holy Roman Empire comprised most of Western Europe. |
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In 1701, England, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic sided with the Holy Roman Empire against Spain and France in the War of the Spanish Succession. |
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The peace settlement was part of the comprehensive 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which formally separated the Dutch Republic from the Holy Roman Empire. |
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