Contemporary historians have tended to lose interest in the Holy Roman Empire after the death in 1250 of Frederick II, the powerful and charismatic emperor who challenged the authority of the Pope.

The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it The fall of Rome led to chaos in Western Europe. Enter Carolus Magnus, more commonly known as Charlemagne, who sought to ...

The empire scarcely seems worthy of discussion today. If it has any resonance at all, it is usually thanks to Voltaire’s quip that it was “neither holy, Roman nor an empire”.

The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire put together by Charlemagne a few hundred years after the Roman Empire gasped its last breath. It was made up of bits and pieces of modern day Germany and ...

Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire lasted for a thousand years, and although it collapsed 200 years ago, its antique capital, Aachen, remains the spiritual centre of today’s EU.

Eberhard Weis, Enlightenment and Absolutism in the Holy Roman Empire: Thoughts on Enlightened Absolutism in Germany, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 58, Supplement: Politics and Society in the ...

843 - Break-up of Frankish empire; Germany emerges as separate realm. 962 - German King Otto I crowned Roman emperor after gaining control of northern Italy; beginning of what became known as Holy ...

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice, but ...

RELIGIOUS EVENTS IN HISTORY On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish King Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Ro… ...