Why had the archduke of Austria, despite being the imperator of the Holy Roman Empire for centuries, never the title of a king? And why was there a title like archduke? -
The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs, 1400–1600 | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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