The Ghibellines supported the power of this office in their fight against the Guelphs, and it was assumed by seven years after a victory at Lechfeld against the Magyars by the son of Henry the Fowler.
The Crescentii clan ended one instance of this title for four decades after Berengar's death. The Ghibellines supported the power of this office in their fight against the Guelphs, and it was assumed by seven years after a victory at Lechfeld against the Magyars by the son of Henry the Fowler. The Treaty of Pressburg invalidated this office after the battle of Austerlitz in 1806, and it was selected by seven electors after the 1356 Golden Bull. This line included Saxonians such as Otto the Great and many Habsburgs. For 10 points, name this often-nominal sovereign who ruled medieval Germans in the name of an earlier defunct empire.
The Crescentii clan ended one instance of this title for four decades after Berengar's death.
Holy Roman Emperor [or Imperator Romanus Sacer; or Rex romanorum; or "King of the Romans"]