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See above. Obviously the glory and prestige of Rome and it's memory in western Europe was why it was used by the Carolingians and then the Ottonians and so on and so forth, but is there any other name that could be used for the HRE that would make sense? Maybe something rooted in it's Franco-German origins, like the much later created German Confederation or something pertaining to the Pope, ala the Papal States?
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