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HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Holy Roman Emperor" is a kind of...):

emperor (the male ruler of an empire)

Instance hyponyms:

Carolus; Charlemagne; Charles; Charles I; Charles the Great (king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814))

Charles; Charles I; Charles II; Charles the Bald (as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877))

Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia (1503-1564))

Ferdinand II (Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637))

Ferdinand III (Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia who signed the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War (1608-1657))

Emperor Francis II; Francis II (the last Holy Roman Emperor (1768-1835))

Barbarossa; Frederick Barbarossa; Frederick I (Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190))

Frederick II; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (the Holy Roman Emperor who led the Sixth Crusade and crowned himself king of Jerusalem (1194-1250))

Henry IV (King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106))

Henry VII (King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313))

Otho I; Otto I; Otto the Great (King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (912-973))

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