1440 imperial election information

The imperial election of 1440 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Frankfurt on February 2. Albert...

to his imperial prerogatives. He avoided direct confrontations, which might lead to humiliation if the princes refused to give way. After 1440, the reform...

daughters and by his pregnant wife Elizabeth of Luxembourg. 1440 2 February 1440 Imperial election: Frederick III was elected King of the Romans at Frankfurt...

The following is a list of imperial elections in the Holy Roman Empire. Entries in italics are for elections where the claim of the man elected to be...

government, the Habsburgs kept possession of the title without interruption from 1440 to 1740. The final emperors were from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, from...

invention of the movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, the first printing offices outside the inventor's hometown Mainz were established...

of the Holy Roman Empire was continuously occupied by the Habsburgs from 1440 until their extinction in the male line in 1740, and, as the Habsburg-Lorraines...

with first exposing the forgery with solid philological arguments in 1439–1440, although the document's authenticity had been repeatedly contested since...

the Imperial title even in absence of Papal coronation. Informed of the election by Duke Frederick, Count Palatine, Charles proclaimed the Imperial title...

assemble for a new imperial election. During that time, imperial institutions still required oversight. This was performed by two imperial vicars. Each vicar...

while King Vladislaus III of Poland was crowned new king of Hungary in May 1440, three months after Queen Elizabeth delivered a son, Ladislaus the Posthumous...

instead he was elected as Grand Duke upon his arrival to Vilnius on 29 June 1440, with the ringing of church bells and the singing of the Te Deum laudamus...

is perhaps the best-known example of an elective monarchy. However, from 1440 to 1740, a Habsburg was always elected emperor, the throne becoming unofficially...

House in 1556 by ceding Austria along with the Imperial crown to Ferdinand (as decided at the Imperial election, 1531), and the Spanish Empire to his son Philip...

virtues. He also ruled in the Franconian principalities of Ansbach from 1440 and Kulmbach from 1464 (as Albrecht I). Albrecht was born at the Brandenburg...

Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1291) 1479 – Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (b. 1440) 1513 – Şehzade Ahmet, Ottoman prince (b. 1465) 1617 – Concino Concini, Italian-French...

secondary school age boys) in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore...

Dukes of Lithuania (1377–1392 and 1440–1572), Kings of Hungary (1440–1444 and 1490–1526), and Kings of Bohemia and imperial electors (1471–1526). The personal...

his election by the princes from the reign of Henry II (1002–1024) onward. The title originally referred to any German king between his election and royal...