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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe
Charles owed his destiny to his grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian ... Charles’ grandfather Emperor Maximilian died. Although the imperial crown had now been held by the Habsburgs ...
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The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it
As Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne instituted cultural, economic, and religious reforms that ignited the Carolingian Renaissance. He valued scholarship, the arts, and literature, and improved the ...
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Before Easter became a holy day, it was the beginning of the Resistance
“I believe it all the more necessary to find out the truth from two slave women, whom they call deaconesses, even by torture,” he wrote to the Roman Emperor Trajan.” I found nothing but ...
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Who was Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, the matriarch who was a mother to sixteen children and who ruled for 40 years?
The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbutte, Maria Theresa was immediately acknowledged as the rightful heir of the Holy ...
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Westminster Abbey Reveals Surprising Connection to First Holy Roman Emperor
A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...
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The Fascinating History of Castel dell’Ovo, the Fortress Where the Last Roman Emperor Retired
As much as Julius Nepos refused to recognize his legitimacy and continued to hold the title in parallel until his death in 475 AD, history considers the last Western Roman emperor to be Romulus ...