holy roman empire

Countless threads have been dedicated to the "Charlemagne-Irene" empire uniting, history changing marriage, now let's assume that after Charlemagne's death the empire is broken up according to Frankish custom, what effects would this break up have on medieval history? Let's assume that Louis...

What if Emperor Otto II defeated the Sicilians at Stilo? Could the Ottonian realm have successfully absorbed southern Italy in the aftermath?

As I am working on a timeline that involves no Napoleon ruling France, I am wondering how the Holy Roman Empire would be affected. Would it still collapse in 1806, at a later date, or not at all. And would Germany as a state exist today without Napoleon?

Are there any possibilities for there to be more electorates in the Holy Roman Empire?

1000-1030 AD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my own TL starting at the turn of the 2nd Millennium...

I'm not exactly sure how this would happen, but I suppose the easiest would be for an Otto the Great analogue to be born in France around the 950s. What I'm interested in are the effects of such an arrangement on the development of Germany as a nation, does it become a strong centralized kingdom...

The Holy Roman Empire is famously known as a joke. It was not Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. It was a feudal mess, that lacked the National identity, centralization, and singular leadership to actually function as nation-state. Because of this, it is seen as a joke. The challenge, with a POD...

Context During 875-885 the Frankish kingdoms experienced a period of instability and quick successions which eventually led to the final unification of the empire under Charles the Fat due to sheer dumb luck when he was the only one who didn't die from one disease or another. In Italy Louis II...

Assuming the Hapsburgs don't get Spain, and so his death is butterflied away. I know Maximilian was trying to reorganize the Empire's government, but died before it was completed, and Charles never had the time to invest in Imperial reforms. By the time the Hapsburgs were able to pay attention...

Henry The Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, was one of the most powerful German princes in the history of the HRE. His descendants would go on to hold the german crown as the holy roman empire declined due to the rise of powerful states like the Welf's german holdings, Austria and Bohemia, all...

So OTL both West and East Francian kingdoms initially fractured before reforming, whilst Middle Francia split leaving nearly a century before Italy/Lombardy and its occasional imperial title were added to Otto's East Francia. So, how do we keep East and West Francias divided while imperial...

The challenge if you choose to accept is to with a POD in 1300 CE, create a scenario wherein the Holy Roman Emperor is the king of Denmark. Stipulations, are that the King do Denmark must have his highest non Imperial title, being the Danish crown. Once this timeline is created, what would be...

What would a French and Italian based Holy Roman Empire look like assuming that the Kings of France or West Francia managed to attain the Imperial Title rather than the Kingdom of East Francia or Germany it otl? What would this French based HRE look like? Would it be more of a contender to be...

The Holy Roman Empire, as a territorial institution, became moribund following setbacks in imperial power such as, in order, the Interregnum of the 13th century (which arguably prompted the Golden Bull of 1356 which enshrined the elector system), the Protestant Reformation, and the Thirty Years'...

Hello everyone. So, Richard of Cornwall, son of King John of England and brother of Henry III, was elected King of Germany in 1257, and formally held that title until his death in 1272. However, he was never crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope, and his kingship over Germany was contested by...

Napoleon defeated the Coalition in 1806, at Austerlitz, and Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire. I've heard, that Francis II dissolved the empire, because he didn't want Napoleon from becoming Holy Roman Emperor himself, so he dissolved it. But did Napoleon really want the title? He saw...

The Holy Roman Empire had a long and turbulent history by the age of exploration, being almost 700 years old by the time of the age of exploration. But it was decentralized, weak, and more of an alliance than an empire. Your challenge is to make the Kingdom of Germany-not the holy Roman empire...

OTL, Otto I rebuilt the Holy Roman Empire, expanding his realm as King of Germany, repelling Hungarian pagans and effectively ending pagan raids on the W.Europeans, and even conquering Italy, creating the hot mess we now call the Holy Roman Empire. In fairness to Otto, it was largely as...

OTL, Charlemagne conquered much of Germany, but his attempts to oust the Umayyad from spain failed. Now, i don't know much military history at all, much less during this period, but what if his fortunes were reversed? What if Charlemagne was able to establish a strong base in Iberia, but was...

Holy Roman Empire is usually seen as an imposter to the Roman Empire (Byzantines being the true heir). What would it take for the HRE to be seen as a worthy successor state to the Roman Empire?