Meaning of Holy Roman Empress | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
   historical
2. Alternative letter-case form of Holy Roman Empress.
   alt-of
3. Rare form of Holy Roman Empress.
   form-of, rare

Examples

“Picture the scene. You're the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, you've enjoyed a splendid 18th century banquet surrounded by the most powerful people in your domains and it's time to sort yourself out with a post-prandial pick of the teeth, a scrape of the tongue and a spoon of the ear.”

“Waltz into a grand Austrian celebration this fall on the Danube River on an eight-day cruise marking the 300th birthday of Maria Theresa of Austria, whose one-time titles included Holy Roman Empress; Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia and Slavonia; Archduchess of Austria; and Duchess of Parma.”

“The Dutch textile and paper-cutting artist Joanna Koerten, for example, sold a piece made of “woven silk” to a Holy Roman Empress for 4,000 guilders — twice the price Rembrandt fetched for his world-famous painting, “Night Watch.””

“Elsewhere in Europe, there was^([sic]) Adelaide of Burgundy (later a Holy Roman empress), Matilda of Tuscany (she led her troops into battle on horseback) and Catherine the Great.”

“At the spa town Karlova Studanka, founded in the late 18th century by Maximilian Franz, the youngest child of Holy Roman empress Maria Theresa, all of the Swiss-chalet style buildings in the spa village hail from the 1850s to 1890s, and the mineral waters that run through it are said to cure all (people bring big water jugs to fill and take home).”

“Early death in childbirth – […] Maria Leopoldine, Holy Roman empress and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, died in 1649 at the age of 17.”

“Matilda [‘the Empress’] d[uche]ss of Normandy, c[oun]t[e]ss of Anjou, holy Roman empress, lady of England, [pages] 43, 49, 118, 120–1, 123, 208 […] Theophano, holy Roman empress, 22, 68”

“He was awakened by the heavy hand of Otto [of Freising], who struck his nape and muttered: “On your knees, jackass!” He remembered that before him stood the holy Roman empress and also the queen of Italy, and he bent his knees, and from that moment on he behaved like the perfect courtier, except that at night he was unable to sleep and, instead of rejoicing at this inexplicable road to Damascus, he wept for the intolerable ardor of his unknown passion.”

“Now that the emperor had died without a male heir and without having arranged the election of a successor, all bets were off. A woman could inherit rule, but she could not be elected head of the Empire. Although this was nowhere formally spelled out in black and white, the idea of a holy Roman empress seemed inconceivable at the time.”

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