Known in his own time as Charles (Latinized to KAROLUS), the Europe of Charlemagne’s birth was mostly a fragmented network of fiefs that were only just beginning to coalesce into larger unified states. 475 – 814 CE) as Imperator Romanorum in 800 CE. We can chart the genesis of the Holy Roman Empire from the coronation of Charlemagne (c. Let’s have a look at three of the most significant leaders of the Holy Roman Empire who most strongly prove that it was indeed Holy, Roman, and an Empire.Ĭharlemagne A sumptuous re-imagining of Charlemagne, by Albrecht Dürer, 1512, via Britannica So, when the smart alec pipes up with their ever-so-clever meme, you need to be prepared. At various times, these peoples included Franks and Saxons, as well as Slavs, Magyars, Lombards, and numerous smaller ethnic groups. Its territories were widespread, being easily one of the largest states in Europe for its entire existence, and they united a diverse range of peoples under the Imperial Crown. Andrée, 1886, via Īs to its “imperial” status, there can be no doubt that the Holy Roman Empire fulfilled every qualification of an empire. Maximilian was nevertheless instead proclaimed Emperor Elect in absentia with Papal consent.Ī map showing the extent of the Holy Roman Empire during the 12th-century Hohenstaufen dynasty – and its boggling complexity of micro-states, from Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, by R. 1508-1519) was crowned in Rome by the Pope, and Maximilian was only prevented from the same by the very temporal threat of capture by his enemies in Italy. Every Holy Roman Emperor until Maximilian I (r. Much of the Holy Roman Empire’s history was intimately concerned with the struggle over Papal authority and legitimacy - such as the Investiture Crisis of the late 11th and early 12th centuries. Its history was characterized by a constant interface with the Roman Catholic Church. 1493, via the Manchester HistorianĪlthough its claim to be the Roman successor state in Western Europe is a little more fragmentary than that of the Byzantine Empire in the East (which was a more-or-less unbroken continuation from the Eastern Roman Empire), the Holy Roman Empire consciously sought to ape Roman-style rule throughout the Medieval era. In Defence of the “Holy Roman Empire” The organizational structure of the Holy Roman Empire, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicles, c.
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