Roman, and not imperial Holy Roman Emperor, was Marie Antoinette’s brother. I should note, by the way, that at this point, the Holy Roman Empire was basically just Austria.
Richard had made enemies from Sicily to Cyprus during his crusade and alienated his allies in France and the holy Roman empire which quickly came back to haunt him.
Historically and up to the present day to an extent, Afghanistan continues to operate in a way that's more similar to the holy Roman empire than the European Union.
It was the start of a journey that would take him not just across the Holy Roman Empire, but into more danger than this sickly teen could have ever believed possible.
As a good Lutheran growing up in the Holy Roman Empire — a collection of several hundred states roughly analogous to modern Germany — Kepler wasn't meant to be a mathematician.
Voltaire famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire Wits neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire; but the Habsburgs, who presided over it for more than 300 years, often had other ideas.
After the western Roman empire fell in 476 AD, or some other year, the kings of the so-called Holy Roman Empire, 962 to 1806 AD routinely referred to themselves as Kaiser, the German form of the name Caesar.