What happened to the Holy Roman Empire?

Answer 1

It was located mainly in what is today Germany and Austria (known retroactively as "The First Reich"), but also extended at various times into France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland and much of Central Europe.

Answer 2

Answer:After the collapse of the Western Empire under occupation of the Goths and Vandals, the Roman Empire continued on in the east based on Constantinople. In the west, the invaders consolidated their own territories, and sought wider legitimacy as western emperor. Charles the Great decided to crown himself as emperor, but a smart Pope grabbed the crown and placed it on his head as God's gift. Charlemagne had to be restrained from killing him on the spot, but the damage was done, the western aspirant became Holy Roman Emperor.

Thereafter those who wanted to claim to be emperor in the west had to get Papal acquiescence, by consent or force. If this didn't work, aspirants set up their own Pope - at one stage there were three men who were called Pope. The Holy Roman Empire shifted around, eventually ending up in Austria where it stayed until Napoleon conquered Austria-Hungary in the early 19th Century CE, when the title disappeared. Napoleon contented himself in his own New Rome with the title of First Consul, and just plain Emperor, as he was not in the Holy business.

Answer:Famously and correctly described by Voltaire as "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire", the Holy Roman Empire started as an extension of the Frankish kingdom (the nucleus of the later France) under its ruler Charlemagne in the year 800. After successive partitions and revivals the title of "Emperor of the Romans" fell into disuse, but was revived in 962 by Otto I in the original Empire's eastern part -roughly today's Germany and neighboring lands, later including northern Italy. With a few interruptions the Empire persisted as an ever weaker federation of principalities usually dominated from 1273 by the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, until the last Emperor Francis II wound up the title in 1806 (having already assumed the throne of a new Austrian Empire corresponding roughly to the later Austria-Hungary) following the French Emperor Napoleon I's territorial reorganisation of Germany.

Answer 3

At its height, the Holy Roman Empire stretched from Italy and the Mediterranean Sea in the South to Germany and the North Sea in the North. It encompassed what is now Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Slovenia and parts of France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland.

Answer 4

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of countries in the area of central Europe during the Middle Ages, ruled by a Roman emperor. The union consisted of (in terms of the territories back then) the Kingdom of Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Kingdom of Burgundy, along with other smaller imperial cities. In terms of how Central Europe is divided now, the Holy Roman Empire consisted of Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, eastern France, northern Italy, and western Poland. Ironically, Rome was never among the territories apart of The Holy Roman Empire.

Answer 5

First of all, despite its name, Holy Roman Empire was not holy, nor Roman, and it wasn't an empire. Rather, it was a loose collection of German states like Prussia, Bavaria, and Hesse. And these states were united into the German Empire in 1871.

Answer 6

Modern day Germany. It did spill into the surrounding areas however.

Answer 7

Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Monaco, Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, and Poland.

Answer 8

The Roman Empires fall actually represents the start of the Dark Ages (Middle Ages).