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Holy Roman Emperor. Holy Roman Emperor was the title that was given to the ruler of a loose group of places in mostly Central Europe called the Holy Roman Empire. The title of "emperor" was passed from the Romans to the Frankish kingdom (for which "France" is named) when, on 25 December 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks ...
English: HM Charles VI ( October 1, 1685 – October 20, 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Karel II.) and Hungary (as Károly III.) from 1711 to 1740. Deutsch: Porträt Karls VI. im Gewand des Ordens vom Goldenen Vlies. English: Portrait of Charles VI wearing the robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. Bianca Lancia (?) Frederick II (26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250), was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. His political and cultural ambitions, based in Sicily and stretching through Italy to Germany, and even to Jerusalem, were enormous.
Roman Catholicism. Henry IV (1050–1106) was King of Germany from 1056 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1084, till he was forced to step down in 1105. He was the third emperor of the Salian dynasty and one of the most interesting and important figures of the eleventh century. His reign was marked by the Investiture Controversy with the Papacy and ...
Frederick III ( German: Friedrich III, 21 September 1415 – 19 August 1493) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome . Prior to his imperial coronation, he was duke of the Inner Austrian lands of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from ...
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor. Henry VII (German: Heinrich; Vulgar Latin: Arrigo; c. 1273 [3] – 24 August 1313), [4] also known as Henry of Luxembourg, was Count of Luxembourg, King of Germany ( Rex Romanorum) from 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1312. He was the first emperor of the House of Luxembourg.
Hohenstaufen. Father. Frederick Barbarossa. Mother. Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy. Henry VI ( German: Heinrich VI.; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany ( King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194 he was also King of Sicily .
