Charles rearranged Low Country institutions as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire – the very same organisation ... the latter’s never-ending quest to take the French crown.

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University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university ...

But when eight years ago Francis Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the crown, married Countess ... sovereign sway in the days of that Holy Roman Empire which was overthrown by Napoleon, yet ...

Seven reigned during the Avignon Papacy from 1309 to 1377, when the pope lived in southern France under pressure from the French crown. A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but ...

His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded the showy red velvet slippers and ornate vestments ...

“So the Holy Roman Empire had been around for a long time—we’re talking practically back to the Roman Empire. Was it the succession to the Roman Empire? That’s a little bit sketchy.

The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine ... and named a war-time hero – no wonder Princess Alice of Battenberg's life made it into The Crown.

After more than 30 years as Holy Roman Emperor, he began dividing control over his vast territories to fellow Habsburgs beginning in 1554, leaving the Spanish Empire to his son, Philip the Prudent.

But the Eastern Roman Empire lived on for another millennium – until Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. A few fringe scholars even argue that Rome fell in 1806 with the demise of the Holy Roman ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was German, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans? (Image: Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire) Credit:Flickr / mitko_denev ...

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