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Historical evolution of the Holy Roman Empire overlaid on modern borders. This list of states in the Holy Roman Empire includes any territory ruled by an authority that had been granted imperial immediacy, as well as many other feudal entities such as lordships, sous-fiefs, and allodial fiefs.
A map of the Imperial Circles as in 1560. Unencircled territories appear in white. When the Imperial Circles (Latin: Circuli imperii; German: Reichskreise) — comprising a regional grouping of territories of the Holy Roman Empire — were created as part of the Imperial Reform at the 1500 Diet of Augsburg, many Imperial territories remained unencircled.
Some constituencies of the Holy Roman Empire had additional royal or imperial territories that were, sometimes from the outset, outside the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire. Henry VI , inheriting both German aspirations for imperial sovereignty and the Norman Sicilian kings' dream of hegemony in the Mediterranean, had ambitious design for ...
1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland: Seckau: Bishopric Aust EC 1218: Established; HRE Prince of the Empire 16th Century: Removed from the Austrian Circle and Bench of Spiritual Princes as it did not possess immediate territory Seeburg: County n/a n/a c. 1036: Partitioned from Querfurt 1182: Sold to Magdeburg 1192: Extinct
Ecclesial principalities Prince-Bishoprics: Aquileia • Augsburg • Basel •Bamberg • Besancon •Bremen • Cambrai • Eichstätt • Freising • Halberstadt • Hildesheim • Constance • Lübeck • Liège • Magdeburg • Metz • Münster • Osnabrück • Paderborn • Passau • Regensburg • Salzburg • Speyer • Strasbourg • Würzburg • Worms
List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (Z) 0–9. List of Imperial Diet participants (1792) A. Princely abbeys and imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire; C.
The title of Holy Roman Emperor (theoretically the same title as Roman emperor) and the Holy Roman Empire itself as an idea and institution (the theoretically universally sovereign imperium) were never formally abolished. The continued existence of a universal empire, though without defined territory and lacking an emperor, was sometimes ...
None of the rulers below the Holy Roman Emperor ranked as kings, with the exception of the Kings of Bohemia. The status of Estate was normally attached to a particular territory within the Empire, but there were some reichsständische Personalisten, or "persons with Imperial statehood". Originally, the Emperor alone could grant that status, but ...