A king of Spain and archduke of Austria, Charles V ruled over the Holy Roman Empire for nearly 40 years ... a scholar and member of the royal court of Saxony known for his support of the ...

In his war with Saxony, he committed atrocities against ... that title would evolve into Leader of the Holy Roman Empire, which did not exist during Charlemagne's time. Once crowned, Charlemagne ...

Though Charlemagne gained no substantial territory, the coronation created a confederation that would last for a thousand years—the Holy Roman Empire. Many historians credit Charlemagne with ...

Between 1618 and 1648, central Europe, and the Holy Roman Empire in particular ... Ferdinand received aid from both Catholic and Protestant German powers like Bavaria and Saxony, as well as from his ...

What do Jägermeister, the Holy Roman Empire and Casanova have in common? DW's Barbara Woolsey goes to Lower Saxony to discover Wolfenbüttel, an old town with a few new tricks. The first time I l ...

St Michael's Church was built on a symmetrical ground plan with two apses that was characteristic of Ottonian Romanesque art in Old Saxony. Its interior ... of the Romanesque churches of the Holy ...

For anyone trying to make sense of the situation on the continent, with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared ...

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...