21-01-2021, 06:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-01-2021, 06:57 PM by Mark Knowles.)
From 1404 to 1416
Ferdinand I was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, and Count of Barcelona, Roussillon, Cerdanya and Regent of Castile
From 1416 to 1438
Alfonso the Magnanimous was the King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily and Count of Barcelona
Thinking about it I don't deeply understand what made the Holy Roman Emperor and what it really meant to be Holy Roman Emperor. There are significant periods of time when there was no Holy Roman Emperor such as prior to Sigismund. Was it that when an individual was deemed to be ruler of a large enough number of states they became Holy Roman Emperor? Although I think they needed to Pope to sign off on this. Or was it specific states that they need to rule in order to be Holy Roman Emperor? Did being Holy Roman Emperor just mean that they had more status and therefore more influence as a result? Did an individual declare themselves Holy Roman Emperor and then expect the Pope and others to sign off on it? It seems that the Holy Roman Emperor was associated with Germanic territories, but was that incidental?
Ferdinand I was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, and Count of Barcelona, Roussillon, Cerdanya and Regent of Castile
From 1416 to 1438
Alfonso the Magnanimous was the King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily and Count of Barcelona
Thinking about it I don't deeply understand what made the Holy Roman Emperor and what it really meant to be Holy Roman Emperor. There are significant periods of time when there was no Holy Roman Emperor such as prior to Sigismund. Was it that when an individual was deemed to be ruler of a large enough number of states they became Holy Roman Emperor? Although I think they needed to Pope to sign off on this. Or was it specific states that they need to rule in order to be Holy Roman Emperor? Did being Holy Roman Emperor just mean that they had more status and therefore more influence as a result? Did an individual declare themselves Holy Roman Emperor and then expect the Pope and others to sign off on it? It seems that the Holy Roman Emperor was associated with Germanic territories, but was that incidental?