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New medium-sized states were established in south-western Germany. In turn, Prussia gained territory in north-western Germany. The Holy Roman Empire was formally dissolved on 6 August 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) resigned.
The Holy Roman emperor was still elected in accordance with a time-honoured ritual that proclaimed him to be the successor of Caesar and Augustus (indeed, the German word for emperor, Kaiser, was derived from Caesar ).
The Habsburg monarchy, [i] also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, [j] was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is also referred to as the Danubian monarchy [k] or the Austrian monarchy ( Latin: Monarchia Austriaca ). [2]
This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany (Latin: Regnum Teutonicum), from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918:
Seal/portraitNameKingEmperorConrad III (Konrad III.)7 March 1138—15 February 1152Henry Berengar (Heinrich (VI.))30 March 1147—August? 1150Frederick I Barbarossa (Friedrich I.4 March 115218 June 115510 June 1190Henry VI (Heinrich VI.)15 August 116915 April 119128 September 11971760 to 1815. Germany in the middle of the 18th century was a country that had been drifting in the backwaters of European politics for more than a hundred years. The decisive roles in the affairs of the Continent were played by those great powers—such as France, England, and Spain—whose economic resources and commercial connections ...
Frederick William IV, detail from a portrait by Franz Krüger; in Monbijou Palace, Berlin. Frederick William IV (reigned 1840–61), a romantic, aspired to revive in Prussia his imaginary conception of the Middle Ages.
Charles VI is regarded as the ‘last Baroque emperor’ and ‘old-school Habsburg’. Born in Vienna on 1 October 1685, the second son of Emperor Leopold I and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of Palatinate-Neuburg, Charles was initially overshadowed by his elder brother Joseph.
