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Succession of the Roman Empire. Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious represented as a Roman soldier holding a Christian cross, with superimposed poem De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis by Rabanus Maurus, 9th century. The continuation, succession, and revival of the Roman Empire is a running theme of the history of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.
The diet as a permanent, regularized institution evolved from the Hoftage (court assemblies) of the Middle Ages. From 1663 until the end of the empire in 1806, it was in permanent session at Regensburg . All Imperial Estates enjoyed immediacy and, therefore, they had no authority above them besides the Holy Roman Emperor himself.
Feudalism in the Holy Roman Empire. Feudalism in the Holy Roman Empire was a politico-economic system of relationships between liege lords and enfeoffed vassals (or feudatories) that formed the basis of the social structure within the Holy Roman Empire during the High Middle Ages. In Germany the system is variously referred to Lehnswesen ...
Several of these states had gained sovereignty following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Others were created as sovereign states after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Territories were not necessarily contiguous, such as Bavaria , or Oldenburg —many existed in several parts ( enclaves and exclaves ), as a result of historical ...
It was unclear whether the Papal States were a separate realm with the Pope as their sovereign ruler, or a part of the Frankish Empire over which the popes had administrative control, as suggested in the late-9th-century treatise Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma, or whether the Holy Roman emperors were vicars of the Pope ruling ...
Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Stadtholder (1545–1552, 1559–1604) Philip of Cro -Ligne, Stadtholder (1654–1675) John Charles de Landas, acting Stadtholder (1675–late 17th century) Ernst of Cro -Ligne, Stadtholder (late 17th century) Henry de Lambert, Stadtholder (1684–1688) County of Namur ( complete list) –.
