>The EMPEROR is crowned by his HOLINESS, the pope of ROME

Cuius regio, eius religio

There was already a sitting emperor in the actual real Roman Empire at that time, so the HRE is an impostor state crowned by a heretical church.

>>280533
>"roman" empire
>didn't even contain Rome
Meme empire tbqh

>>280561
There is no more a meme empire in history than the HRE. It was all publicity with none of the art, science, scholarship or governance that the actual successor state of the Roman Empire maintained.

>Holy
Constant fights between the emperor and the Pope
>Roman
Only in name as any nation could claim themselves to be Roman without actually being 'Roman' (Ottomans, Russia)
>Empire
A loose term but i believe it was

>Holy
No empire is holy
>Roman
Mainly German not Roman, if you count Italians as Romans
>Empire
More like a very decentralized federation of states

The Pope in Rome was never granted the authority to anoint a successor to Rome. Basing any claim on that is a joke and a half

The only mildly accurate term is that it was an empire, due to it being ruled by an emperor.

Germanfags need to get over themselves.

>>280364
>holy
>roman
>empire
kek

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Someone needs to do this with Charlemagne and a typical late Roman emperor.

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>This thread

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>>280719

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It's the Guelfs and the Ghibellines! 187 on Emperor Henry!

>>280719
>>280742
With a face like that Voltaire was made to write smug satire.

>>280764
He had the smug anime face of the 18th century.

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>>280870
>sort through Google images of Voltaire to see if there are any other smug ones
>pretty much all of them are smug
I think we've found a new meme

>>280364
Rome touching the kids since 753BCE. Touching the kids, touching the kids!!

>>280573
>he doesn't even know about Fredrick II
SHAKING MY HEAD FAMILY

>>280913
>new
it's an age old /gsg/ maymay senpai

>>280574
>Ottomans
Ottomans called themselves Rome too? wew