The Roman Empire was the empire of the ancient Romans. The Holy Roman Empire existed from 962 to 1806. It was centred on the kingdom of Germany (which comprised Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Alsace and Lorraine) and included the kingdoms of Italy, Bohemia and Burgundy. The king of Germany became the emperor until the Hapsburg of Austria became the last and longest lasting dynasty. The notion of a restored Roman empire started when the pope gave Italy to Charlemagne of the Franks and crowned him emperor of the Romans in 800 as a reward for destroying Lombard rule in Italy. Charlemagne had already been ruling the Frankish kingdom which comprised France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria and southern Germany and after the imperial coronation he conquered northern Germany. Historian call this the Carolingian empire. Subsequently this empire collapsed and broke up. Otto reunited the former empire except for most of France, called himself emperor of the Romans and added holy to it.
Voltaire said the Holy Roman Empire was not 'Holy, Roman, or an Empire.'
the holy roman empire was not holy, roman or an empire - Voltaire
Germany was part of the Holy Roman Empire. But was not the Holy Roman Empire.
The only connection between the two was the name "Roman Empire" . The Roman empire was (mostly) pre-Christian and Mediterranean in culture, although absorbing other cultures in their expansion, while the "Holy" Roman empire was Germanic and Christian in culture.
The holy Roman empire ruled the Romans.
Holy Roman Empire was created in 962.
One possibility would be the formation of the Holy Roman Empire (which was unfortunately neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire).
It never did. The so-called Holy Roman Empire was a mid-European entity.
Voltaire
Charlemagne was the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.
Most of the people in the Holy Roman Empire spoke german. It's perhaps worth noting that the Holy Roman Empire (Somebody said this) is not holy, roman or an empire !
The Holy Roman Empire was actually in Germany and was named so by a pope after Charlemagne or Charles the Great conquered most of Europe and became Christan.The Roman Empire, from around 750 BC, began as a kingdom, then a republic, and finally an empire by around 30 BC, encompassing the entire region around the Mediterranean Sea, including as far west as Portugal and north to the British Isles, west surrounding the Black Sea to Armenia and Mesopotamia, to the south encompassed the northern coast of Africa and all of Egypt. Once Roman military conquest had been accomplished, Roman occupation establish the Latin language, legal system, and culture to these lands and was the origin of what is today referred to as "Western Culture".The Holy Roman Empire included Germany and the part of Italy ruled by Germany between 800 AD to around 1800. Charlemagne, King of the Franks (which was the territory formerly known as Gaul, approximately France and Germany of today) traveled to Rome, where Pope Leo III on Christmas day in 800, unexpectedly crowned him Emperor of the Romans. This put Charlemagne in direct competition with the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. Charlemagne's empire included the Germanic empire and that part of Italy controlled by the Germans. From this point on, there is a constant power struggle between the Pope in Rome and the German empire which eventually leads to the decline in the power of the Catholic Church and the rise of Protestantism.