An imperial election was held in Cologne on 5 January 1531 to select the King of the Romans of the Holy Roman Empire. As the current emperor, Charles V, had not yet died nor abdicated, this election was conducted so as to determine his successor.
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An imperialelection was held in Cologne on 5 January 1531 to select the King of the Romans of the Holy Roman Empire. As the current emperor, Charles...
The following is a list of imperialelections in the Holy Roman Empire. Entries in italics are for elections where the claim of the man elected to be...
army was beaten and destroyed by their reinforcements. 1531 5 January 1531Imperialelection: Ferdinand was elected King of the Romans. The prince-electors...
title assumed by the Emperor-elect immediately after his election. It is now kept in the Imperial Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer) at the Hofburg in Vienna...
mark, was a standard currency of the High Middle Ages. Between 1484 and 1531, emperors and kings often spent time in Cologne, enabling Cologne patricians...
An imperialelection was held in Regensburg on 28 November 1562 to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This was the third imperialelection to...
Romans in 1531. The succession was recognized by the prince-electors assembled at Frankfurt only in 1558, and by the Pope only in 1559. The Imperial abdication...
dynasty, however, it still did not carry the right to vote in the Imperialelection. Frederick further promoted the rise of the Habsburg dynasty into...
in 1556 by ceding Austria along with the Imperial crown to Ferdinand (as decided at the Imperialelection, 1531), and the Spanish Empire to his son Philip...
which Charles also agreed to favor the election of Ferdinand as King of the Romans in Germany, which took place in 1531. Following the abdications of Charles...
Vollraths; 1467 – 13 March 1531) was a German clergyman who served as Archbishop and Elector of Trier from 1511 until his death in 1531. Richard von Greiffenklau...
company Marx Fugger and brothers Hans (III.) Fugger of Kirchheim and Glött (1531–1598) Markus (IV.) Fugger (1564–1614) Jakob (IV.) Fugger (1567–1626) Christoph...
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...
provinces ignored the imperial order to fight against foreigners. The Eight-Nation Alliance, after initially being turned back by the Imperial Chinese military...
the Simple, he obtained the final right of election of the Bishop of Trier by the chapter, free of Imperial interference. In early modern times, the Electorate...
an imperial city. It served as the coronation site where 31 Holy Roman Emperors were crowned Kings of the Germans from 936 (Otto the Great) to 1531 (Ferdinand...
Aix-la-Chapelle on 6 July. In order to secure the election of his son, Charles IV revoked the privileges of many Imperial Cities that he had earlier granted and...
Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai....
period of free election ended with the ascension of the Austrian House of Habsburg, as an unbroken line of Habsburgs held the imperial throne until the...
Brasil, 1531–1945 (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira. ISBN 978-85-200-0391-6. Salles, Ricardo (1996). Nostalgia Imperial (in Portuguese)...
Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism...
"The second city of the Empire: Glasgow – imperial municipality", in F. Driver and D. Gilbert, eds, Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (2003)...
by his election as Holy Roman Emperor, led to France being geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy. In his struggle against Imperial hegemony...
external territories. This includes the conquests of the Russian Empire, the imperial actions of the Soviet Union (as Russia is considered its main successor...
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