holy roman empire in English

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the empire set up in western Europe following the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor in the year 800. It was created by the medieval papacy in an attempt to unite Christendom under one rule. At times the territory of the empire was extensive and included Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Italy and the Netherlands.

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1. During the Renaissance, Brandenburg was an independent state within the Holy Roman Empire*

2. This confederation, under French influence, put an end to the Holy Roman Empire.

3. (b) What finally happened to the title of “emperor” of the Holy Roman Empire?

4. The Reformation split the Holy Roman Empire into three faiths —Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist.

5. 24, 25. (a) According to some historians, what marked the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire?

6. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire.

7. Long an influential constituent of the Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria became a kingdom upon the dissolution of

8. Additionally, she is sometimes shown as carrying or wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.

9. Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

10. 4.0 out of 5 stars German History 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich

11. With increasing wealth, many castles appeared and the valley became a core region of the Holy Roman Empire.

12. The subsequent period, ending around 1000, saw the further growth of feudalism, which weakened the Holy Roman Empire.

13. The study included ambassadresses from the Holy Roman Empire to Madrid in the second half of the 17th century.

14. At that point the two lines were joined in personal union until the end of the Holy Roman Empire.

15. The Archbishopric of Salzburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire Archbishop of Salzburg as a Prince-Bishop

16. Wikipedia entry about the Margraviate of Brandenburg, a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806

17. During the Thirty Years' War, Sweden managed to conquer approximately half of the member states of the Holy Roman Empire.

18. At the onset of the early modern period, the great European powers were France, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.

19. Charlemagne (c747–814) was the ruler of a vast territory that later came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire

20. He allied himself with the leaders of Flanders, Boulogne and the Holy Roman Empire to apply pressure on Philip from Germany.

21. From the time of Otto the Great onward, much of the former Carolingian kingdom of Eastern Francia became the Holy Roman Empire.

22. When the Salzburg Archbishop issued its own country regulations in 1328, Salzburg become a largely independent state within the Holy Roman Empire.

23. Bohemia, historical country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire

24. The District has roughly the same territory as the County of Bentheim, a state of the Holy Roman Empire that was dissolved in 1803.

25. Main research findings indicate that ambassadresses from the Holy Roman Empire to Madrid exercised diplomatic, social, cultural and ceremonial power during their husbands' missions.

26. The central tenet of the foreign policy of John II in the West was to maintain an alliance with the German emperors (Holy Roman Empire).

27. Historically German entities which recognized or conferred nobility included the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the German Confederation (1814–1866) and the German Empire (1871–1918).

28. The Confederation was created as a replacement for the now-extinct Holy Roman Empire, with Francis I of Austria—the last Holy Roman Emperor—as its president.

29. The Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (German: Fürstbistum Augsburg; Hochstift Augsburg) was one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, and belonged to the Swabian Circle

30. Abbess Anna II died on 4 March 1574; a day after Anna II's death, Elisabeth was consecrated Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, and as such she was also Princess of the Holy Roman Empire.

31. The Austro-Hungarian military was a direct descendant of the military forces of the Habsburg sections Holy Roman Empire from the 13th century and the successor state that was the Austrian Empire from 1804

32. Brandenburg, margravate, or mark, then an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the northeastern lowlands of Germany; it was the nucleus of the dynastic power on which the kingdom of Prussia was founded

33. Thereafter expeditions were undertaken by the Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Craven to the Holy Roman Empire in support of the thousands of Scottish and English mercenaries already serving under the King of Sweden in that conflict.

34. The rulers of the Holy Roman Empire chose the city on the Limmat as the site for two important abbeys that were the seat of considerable power: The Grossmünster (Great Minster) and the Fraumünster (Minster of Our Lady).

35. The Electorate of Salzburg (Kurfürstentum Salzburg or Kursalzburg), occasionally known as the Grand Duchy of Salzburg, was an electoral principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1803–05, the short-lived successor state of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg

36. Charlemagne’s empire was the fifth revival and was followed by Otto the Great, the Holy Roman Empire under the Hapsburg dynasty of Austria, Napoleon’s French empire, and then by Italy and Germany from Garibaldi to the Hitler-Mussolini axis that fell in 1945.

37. Italian Baronies may often have links to some of the most prestigious families of the mesmerising Italian Nobility, originating from different regions of the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary or the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Greece, Spain, and Aragon, as well as the Balkans, the Aegean Islands, Albania or the Archipelagos of the hauntingly beautiful

38. Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a Composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna

39. Augustus III (Polish: August III Sas, Lithuanian: Augustas III; 17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II).

40. The Münster rebellion (German: Täuferreich von Münster, "Anabaptist dominion of Münster") was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster – then under the large Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire.

41. Archduke, feminine Archduchess, a title, proper in modern times for members of the house of Habsburg. The title of archduke Palatine (Pfalz-Erzherzog) was first assumed by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, on the strength of a forged privilege, in the hope of gaining for the dukes of Austria an equal status with the electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

42. Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: Erzherzog, feminine form: Erzherzogin) was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty.It denotes a rank within the former Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), which was below that of Emperor and King but above that of a Grand Duke (debatably), Prince and Duke.

43. The Peace of Augsburg, also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed in September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg.It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christianity permanent within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or