Portal:Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire portal gives an overview of events from about 900 to 1806, that affected the territories of the Empire and its leading aristocratic families.

Welcome

The purpose of the Holy Roman Empire portal is to make it easy for readers to find and explore articles about the Holy Roman Empire and its aristocratic families, as well as enabling editors to come together to work to enhance the subject and its themes. New editors are warmly welcome and invited to participate in adding new articles and improving existing ones – the first steps are very easy.

Article of the month

Article of the month

Imperial Sword

Imperial Sword and scabbard in the Imperial Treasury, Vienna

The Imperial Sword of the Holy Roman Empire is one of the Imperial Regalia of the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the others including the Imperial Crown, Imperial Cross, Imperial Orb and Imperial Sceptre.

The Imperial Sword was made for the Emperor Otto IV in the 12th century, possible for his coronation as King of the Romans in 1198. The sword is 110 centimetres long and was refitted and redecorated several times during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The scabbard depicts the emperors of the High Middle Ages.

The sword was handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor at his coronation as a sign of the secular power which he received from the hand of God. As he subsequently made his way out of the church after the ceremony, the new emperor was preceded by the sword-bearer who carried the sword, point uppermost, as a sign of secular power and force. Today it is kept in the Imperial Treasury in Vienna's Hofburg.

More...

Article management |

Quick start

Important noble families
Agilolfings • Ahalolfings • Andechs • Aribonids • Arnulfing • Ascania • Babenberg • Balduin • Billung • Burcharding • Caroligians • Conradines • Diepolding-Rapotones • Ekkehardins • Emichones • Eppensteins • Etichonids • Ezzonids • Griffins • Habsburg • Hohenstaufen • Hohenzollern • Ludovingians • Luitpoldings • Luxembourg • Matfrieds• Meinhardiner • Nassau • Northeim • Obodrites • Ottonians • Plantagenet • Popponids • Premyslid • Reginar • Salians • Sieghardingians • Spanheim • Supplinburg • Udalrichings • Unruochings • Welfs • Wigerics • Wittelsbach • Wettin • Wilhelminers • Württemberg • Zähringen

Important imperial treaties, edicts and legal sources
Peace of Augsburg • Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis • Constitutio Criminalis Carolina • Cuius regio, eius religio • Golden Bull of 1356 • Ems Punctation • Ewiger Landfriede • Peace of Constance • Treaty of Lunéville • Treaty of Venice • Youngest Recess • German mediatization (Reichsdeputationshauptschluss) • Ottonian-Salian Imperial Church System • Peace of Passau • Sachsenspiegel • Schwabenspiegel • Statutum in favorem principum • Treaty of Bonn (921) • Peace of Westphalia • Edict of Worms • Concordat of Worms

Conflicts and key events
Anti-kings • Augsburg Interim • Battle of the Three Emperors • War of the Austrian Succession • War of the Bavarian Succession • Walk to Canossa • Crusades • Investiture Controversy • Battle of Lechfeld • Battle of Legnano • War of the Palatine Succession • Defenestrations of Prague • Reformation • Schmalkaldic League • Schmalkaldic War • Seven Years' War • Thirty Years' War • Western Schism

Terminology
Imperial Army (Reichsarmee) • Free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt) • Hasenrat • Perpetual Diet of Regensburg (Immerwährender Reichstag) • Interregnum • Coronation • Recess (Reichsabschied) • Imperial ban (Reichsacht) • Flags • Reichsdeputation • Reichsexekution • Reichsexekutionsordnung • Reichsfürstenrat • Imperial Italy (Reichsitalien) • Imperial Regalia (Reichskleinodien) • Imperial Register (Reichsmatrikel) • Imperial Prelate (Reichsprälat) • Imperial Reform (Reichsreform) • Imperial Government (Reichsregiment) • Imperial Knighthood (Reichsritterschaft) • Reichsstädtekollegium • Reichssturmfahne • Reservatrechte • Römermonat • Quaternionenadler • Wahlkapitulation

Organisation of the Empire

Structures

• Hoftag
  • Imperial Prelates (Reichsprälat)
• Emperors
• Kings
• Imperial Estates (Reichsstände)
  • Prince-electors (Kurfürst)
  • Imperial Villages (Reichsdorf)
  • Erzamt
  • Imperial Princes (Reichsfürst)
  • Imperial Counts (Reichsgraf)
  • Free imperial cities
• Other imperially immediate estates
  • Imperial Knights (Reichsritter)

Institutions of the Empire

• Imperial Diet (Reichstag)
• Königliches Kammergericht to 1495
• Reichskammergericht from 1495
• Imperial Circle (Reichskreise) from 1495
• Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) from 1498

Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire,since the 20th century called also as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered |date=1 October 2010 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-992-5 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fzaQugiuMYC&pg=PA2 |access-date=6 February 2022 |language=en ('Full article...)

History of the Holy Roman Empire

Extent of the Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium) was the official name for the sovereign territory of the Roman-German Emperor from the Middle Ages to the year 1806. The name of the Empire is derived from the claim of its medieval rulers that it continued the tradition of the Ancient Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire is the forerunner of the modern nation-states of Germany and Austria. To distinguish it from the German Empire founded in 1871 it is also referred to by modern historians as the “Old Empire” (German: Altes Reich) more...

Well known people of the Holy Roman Empire

Emperors and kings
Otto I • Otto II • Otto III • Henry II • Conrad II • Henry III • Henry IV • Henry V • Conrad III • Frederick I • Henry VI • Philip of Swabia • Otto IV • Frederick II • Henry VII • Louis IV • Charles IV • Frederick III • Charles V • Ferdinand I • Ferdinand II • Joseph I • Charles VII • Francis II

Important church leaders
Leo III • Gregory VII • Urban II • Innocent III • Alexander III • Leo X • Jan Hus • Martin Luther • Philip Melanchthon • John Calvin

Members

New articles
• 01.02 Portal:Holy Roman Empire

•  • Archive

Wanted articles
Brunswick-Celle - Eberhard I of Habsburg-Laufenburg - Frederick III of Veldenz - Lordship of Ochsenstein - Holstein-Glückstadt - Holstein-Oldenburg - Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin - Joanna of Ligny and St. Pol - Carmelite Church, Straubing - Conrad of Thierberg - Kraft I of Hohenlohe - Kreistag - Landkasten/ Landschaftskasse/ Landschaft (Bank) - Louis V of Lichtenberg - Louis of Eyb - Mangold of Sternberg - Margaret of Bavaria-Landshut - Otto of Lomello - Palatinate-Kleeburg - Treaty of Prague (1546) - Reichsrecht - Rerum Prussicarum - House of Schneeberg - Seehaufen - Ulrich III of Ortenburg - Untertanenpatent - House of Dernbach - House of Kruchfeld - House of Wichsenstein - more... •