prince-electors
German throne choosers
Prince-electors were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire who held the exclusive right to elect the emperor.
Originally seven in number—three archbishops and four secular rulers—they formed the empire's most powerful tier of nobility.
The position combined territorial sovereignty with constitutional privilege, making prince-electors virtual kings within their own domains while collectively determining imperial succession.
Medieval Germanic political entity
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- FrankfurtGerman financial capital
- successionFollowing in order
- voteFormal choice expression
privilege · rank · prerogative · sovereignty · capitulation · interregnum · majority · deliberation
German count's hereditary domain
- SaxonyGerman state around Dresden
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
- BohemiaCentral European historical region
- HabsburgEuropean imperial dynasty
dynasty · hereditary · temporal · lay · nobility · aristocracy · lineage · house
German count's hereditary domain
- SaxonyGerman state around Dresden
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
- BohemiaCentral European historical region
- CologneMajor German Rhine city
Trier · Rhine · domain · principality · archbishopric · duchy · realm · territory
Holy Roman Empire
Medieval Germanic political entity
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- FrankfurtGerman financial capital
- successionFollowing in order
vote · privilege · rank · prerogative · sovereignty · capitulation · interregnum · majority · deliberation · assembly
Palatinate
German count's hereditary domain
- SaxonyGerman state around Dresden
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
- BohemiaCentral European historical region
Habsburg · dynasty · hereditary · temporal · lay · nobility · aristocracy · lineage · house · succession
Palatinate
German count's hereditary domain
- SaxonyGerman state around Dresden
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
- BohemiaCentral European historical region
Cologne · Trier · Rhine · domain · principality · archbishopric · duchy · realm · territory · Heidelberg
archbishop
Senior prelate over province
diocese · see · cardinal · bishop · clergy · papal · church · spiritual · benefice · cathedral
prince-electorsHoly Roman Emperor
Medieval Germanic imperial monarch
emperor · absolute monarch · sovereign · crowned head · pretenders
prince, princes, princely, princedom, princess, princesses, elector, electors, elect