Holy Roman Empire Association - Aulic Council of the Holy Roman Empire

10/08/2025

Face - Reliquary Bust of Emperor Charlemagne - Karlsbüste (thought to contain a fragment of the skull of Charlemagne, after 1349 (Coronation Crown of Charles IV, before July 25, 1349). www.OrderofCharlemagne.com

10/08/2025

10/08/2025

Portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, seated (Alte Pinakothek). www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.org

10/08/2025

Archduke Ferdinand, later the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, marble and gilded wood, Augsburg, ca 1525. Now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.org

10/08/2025

Allegory on the Abdication of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Brussels. In the middle Charles V is seated on his thrown flanked by his successors Ferdinand I and Philip II. In front of Philip the personifications of the territories of the Empire with their banners are kneeling down. In the foreground the personifications of the continents, America, Africa, Europe and Asia, are offering gifts. Left Neptune is riding his seahorse-drawn Triumphal chariot, accompanied by mermen, mermaids, tritons, etc. On the chariot a globe and the two columns with a banderole inscribed with Plus Ultra. www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.org

10/08/2025

The Imperial Seal of Charles VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1711 to 1740. The seal shows the Crowned double-headed Reichsadler, holding the sceptre, the Imperial Sword and the Globus cruciger.

Inscription: CAROL·VI.·D.G·ROM:IMP:S·A·GER:HISP:HUNG:BOH:[UTR:SIC]:HYER:ET:INDIARŪ:RX·ARC:D·AUS·D:BURG:BRAB:MEDIOL·PR:SUEV:CATAL·MAR·S·R·I·COM:HABS·FL:TYR:

Latin:
Carolus VI. Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus Germaniae Hispaniae Hungariae Bohemiae utriusque Siciliae Hyerusalem et Indiarum Rex, Archidux Austriae, Dux Burgundiae Brabantiae Mediolani Princeps Sueviae Catalaniae Marchio Sacri Romani Imperii Comes Habsburgi Flandriae Tyrolis

Deutsch:
Karl VI. von Gottes Gnaden ewig erhabener Römischer Kaiser, Deutscher König, König von Spanien, Ungarn, Böhmen, beide Sizilien, Jerusalem, und über Westindien, Erzherzog Österreichs, Herzog von Burgund, Brabant, Mailand, Fürst zu Schwaben, Katalonien, Markgraf des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, Graf zu Habsburg, Flandern,Tirol.

English:
Charles VI, by the Grace of God Always Sublime Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Spain, Hungary, Bohemia, both Sicilies, Jerusalem and West India, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan, Prince of Swabia and Catalonia, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Habsburg, Flandern and Tyrole.

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10/08/2025

The Imperial Order of Charlemagne - HREA, Founded In Rome on Christmas Day, 2024 and Granted by the Holy Roman Empire Association upon Members of the HREA for Services and Contribution to the Legacy, Patrimony and History of the Holy Roman Empire. www.OrderofCharlemagne.com

10/08/2025

Reverse of the Imperial Seal of the Trier copy of the Golden Bull of 1356 a decree by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (that shaped the Holy Roman Empire’s electoral system for over 400 years, notably excluding papal confirmation in a break from medieval tradition, as detailed in historical records from the Diet of Nuremberg and Metz) with a stylized depiction of Rome. Inscription: ROMA CAPVT MVNDI REGIT ORBIS FRENA ROTVNDI (Leonine Verse - "Rome, the head of the world, holds the reins of the earth"). www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.org

10/08/2025

Front of the Imperial Seal of the Trier copy of the Golden Bull of 1356 (a decree by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV that shaped the Holy Roman Empire’s electoral system for over 400 years, notably excluding papal confirmation in a break from medieval tradition, as detailed in historical records from the Diet of Nuremberg and Metz) with the portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.org

03/12/2024

Map, Shields and the Imperial Doppeladler of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.com

03/12/2024

Emperor Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey to Rome was blocked by the Venetians. He proclaimed himself Elected Emperor in 1508 (Pope Julius II later recognized this) at Trent, thus breaking the long tradition of requiring a papal coronation for the adoption of the Imperial title. Maximilian was the only surviving son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eleanor of Portugal. Since his coronation as King of the Romans in 1486, he ran a double government, or Doppelregierung (with a separate court), with his father until Frederick's death in 1493. www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.com

03/12/2024

The Hals-Doppeladler of the Order of Dignity of the Hereditary First Knight of the Holy Roman Empire. First Established in September of 1790 by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792) and presently conferred by the Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire Association - Associazioni dei Nobili del Sacro Romano Impero, as Grand Master of the Order, upon members of the HREA, members of the Nobility of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. www.HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.com