Holy Roman Empire

holy roman empire  Discover how the Holy Roman Empire is born, protagonists and historical junctures which led the city of Rome to its splendour and decline in the centuries  Holy roman empire

The Holy Roman Empire A bit of a misnomer, the Holy Roman Empire was never centralized enough to form a cohesive government, language, or The Holy Roman Empire looked to Charlemagne, King of the Franks, as its founder, who had been crowned Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo

Holy Roman Empire · Adelheid · Matilda · Kunigunda Slavonia · Isabella of But the empire only took full shape in 962, when the pope crowned Otto I as emperor Otto controlled the eastern lands of Charlemagne's old empire In the 1100s