holy roman empire

The Challenge if you choose to accept it, is to with a POD in 1360 CE, is to have a scenario wherein the Venetian Republic is seen as a near synonym to Prussia in terms of: Restrictions: Cannot create an Italy analogue, only if the analogue is a collection of vassals and subordinates. Venice...

The medieval Holy Roman Empire was noteworthy for its disputes and feudal strife. Of particular notice was the position of Italy in the empire, which was always tenuous to say the least. In the early decades of the 11th century, the HRE was ridden with succession crises after the childless death...

What if the victorious powers of the Thirty Year’ War, after seeing the utter carnage this decades long war had created, decided to dissolve the HRE?

I don't know if this is too much of a stretch that it becomes ASB but Ok. What if the Hapbsurg Dynasty (or at least its Imperial/Austrian Branch) becomes protestant? Lets say that unlike OTL, where theyremained staunchly catholic, either due to a new big figth with the Pope or some other...

Your goal is to make Germany remain a united polity while West Francia/France/Gaul conquers Italy and becomes a hot mess of disorganized duchies and princedoms and whathaveyous Perhaps Louis The Pious only has two sons, so the German King gets the Netherlands and some of the west but the west...

I have two questions regarding the 1273 Imperial Election in the Holy Roman Empire. First, what would it have taken for Frederick I the Brave, Margrave of Meissen, to have been elected? Second, why was the Burgrave of Nuremburg able to vote on behalf of Brandenburg, an electorate his family...

Otl, in the 900s, Otto I 'The Great,' conquered Italy and restored the Holy Roman Empire. But what if he failed to do so, or decided to focus his energies on the paganism surrounding Germany? And, recognizing that italy wasn't exactly the hardest thing to conquer, just assume that no one...

What if Charles I of Spain was chosen as the Holy Roman Emperor instead of Francis I of France? How would this affect the histories of both the HRE & Spain? How would Charles manage a ridiculously big domain with assorted laws, governments & customs?

So I'm aware that the Battle of Pavia (1525) and some particular counterfactual scenarios have been aired on this alternatehistory.com forum before, however, in this I aim to ask a different question about which I hope to generate some enlightened (and civilised) discussion. For those who...

The Duchy of Swabia was one of the five stem duchies which formed the Holy Roman Empire. It was proclaimed by the family of the Ahalofingers and was later almost always held by the Hohenstaufer dynasty. With the end of the Hohenstaufers also came the end of the duchy which was divided between...

Frederick William IV of Prussia was a hardcore Romanticist, and the one of reason why he refused the Crown of Germany in 1848, besides calling it a "a crown from the gutter", he had Romantic aspirations to the re-establish medieval Holy Roman Empire, and would only accepted if the a...

After lurking for so long in these forums, I've decided to make my own timeline. The style is obviously heavily inspired by Planet of Hats' amazing and awesome Al-Andalus timeline, and I thank him here for his contributions. ---------------- "Right action is better than knowledge; but in order...

So, after the fall of The Elder Welfs, the closest occasion where the Kingdom of Arles or the Kingdom of the Two-Burgundies was created was with Charles I of Anjou. He and Pope Nicholas III were planning to create the Arelat as a separate state from the Holy Roman Empire with Charles Martel, who...

What if Francis I of France won the 1519 election for Holy Roman Emperor? How might things have been altered?

Theophanes the Confessor claims that after Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor, Byzantine Empress Irene of Athens attempted to secure a marriage alliance with him. He further claims that this effort was frustrated by one of her advisors, a eunuch named Aetios. Personally, I think...

As we all know the Carolingian Empire a title which is unofficially given by historians to signify the start of the Carolingian patrimony over Western and Central Europe. This started with Emperor Charlemagne who brought order to Western Europe in a vast empire. The first of its kind since the...

The Zähringen dynasty was a noble house active between the 11th and early 13th centuries in the feudal political scene of Swabia within the Holy Roman Empire. They held lands spanning all across modern Switzerland and the southern half of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. They seemed to be...

Assuming Karloman survives and fights with Charlemagne, could a Lombard Version of Charlemagne arise in Western Europe? Italy despite being ravaged by the Gothic Wars and Lombard Invasions was still the wealthiest region in the Mediterranean world. Assuming some military genius...

What if Frederick Barbarossa didn't drown in the Göksu River? How would it have affected the Third Crusade and other things and events?

The Kingdom of Burgundy (not to be confused with the later, aspired-to royal demesne of Charles the Bold), more frequently known as the Kingdom of Arles due to its capital, was a medieval state spanning what is now roughly the border region between France, Italy, and Switzerland. From around the...