In 1194, Frederick II, the Holy Roman emperor from 1220 to 1250, was born.
In 1155, Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV.
In 1519, Charles I of Spain became Holy Roman Emperor and ruled until 1556 as Charles V.
The Thurn und Taxis family eventually won the lucrative position of postmasters-general for the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1637, Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, archduke of Austria and king of Bohemia and Hungary, died.
Eventually he became court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Philip II, King of Spain.
But Muserico just pops out all over, between Pope and Holy Roman Emperor.
The celebrated Charles V with Dog shows the Holy Roman Emperor at the height of his power, with an expression and pose to match.
In gold writing on purple parchment, the 10th-century Holy Roman Emperor Otto I asserts his veto power over the election of new pontiffs.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
Joseph II, Holy roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790, created scholarships for talented poor students and was also a great supporter of Wolfgang Mozart.
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In 1214, Philip II of France beat an allied English, Flemish and German army under Otto IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, at the Battle of Bouvines.
In 1508, the League of Cambrai was formed by Pope Julius II, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon to attack Venice.
In the power vacuum that accompanied the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, a number of large and efficient city-states evolved, all having an unusually potent sense of a separate identity.
In this view, George Bush is the successor of a long line of rulers, from the Byzantine emperors, to the Holy Roman emperors to Queen Victoria, who have obstructed the divinely ordained and inevitable spread of Islam.
The Roman Empire eventually crumbled, but some of its banking institutions lived on in the form of the papal bankers that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire, and with the Knights Of The Temple during the Crusades.
Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
The Holy See is the supreme government of the Roman Catholic Church, which operates from the independent territory of the Vatican City State in Rome.
None of the hundreds of priests, bishops and cardinals who work inside the Holy See, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, have been charged in connection with this very serious breach of security.
The parents of a boy with Down's syndrome have criticised the Roman Catholic Church for not allowing him to take his first Holy Communion.
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