单词 | king of the romans |
释义 | > as lemmasKing (also Emperor) of the Romans c. An inhabitant of the Holy Roman Empire. Chiefly in King (also Emperor) of the Romans: the sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [noun] > of western or Holy Roman Empire emperorc1325 Kaisera1425 King (also Emperor) of the Romansc1450 Roman Emperor1567 Caesar1673 Holy Roman Emperor1784 Western emperor1790 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 9 (MED) Ane Abbott..come vnto Philipp, þat was kyng of Romayns, for dyvers nedis of his howse. 1492 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 200 To pass..to get the letteris subscriuit to the King off Rowmanis. 1494 Loutfut MS f. 43, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Romane And giff ȝe demand quhy he is nocht callit Empriour of Allemaigne the Romanis wald tak our gret displesans. c1536 in R. Dyboski Songs, Carols, & Other Misc. Poems (1908) 152 This yer [sc. 1503] cam a gret embasset from þe Kyng of Romayns. 1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vii. iii. 274 The peace was concluded..whereunto the King of the Romaines agreed, to the end he might repose his subiects. 1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 201 If his Maty shall command me to returne to Francfurt to congratulate with King Ferdinand when he shall be elected King of the Romans. 1693 S. R. tr. A. Baillet Life M. Des Cartes i. 28 This Prince was Elected King of the Romains the 28th of August, and was Crowned Emperour the 30th of the said month. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 418 That meeting for the choosing a King of the Romans, was of vast expense to every one of them. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) King of the Romans, in our Age, is a Prince elected, and design'd Successor to the German Empire. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. 151 They respectfully saluted the august Charlemagne with the acclamations of basileus, and emperor of the Romans. 1818 E. Baines Hist. Wars French Revol. I. i. xxiv. 178/1 The negociation between the French republic, and his majesty the Emperor of the Romans, Kind of Hungary and Bohemia, proceeded. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XII. 39/2 Again was a compromise effected, in which the King of the Romans appeared as a mediator. 1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 180/1 The German sovereign..called himself merely ‘King of the Romans’..until he had received the sacred crown in the sacred city. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 448/2 Behind the Rathaus is the Grashaus, in which Richard of Cornwall, king of the Romans, is said to have held his court. 1954 G. J. Mangone Short Hist. Internat. Org. ii. 37 Until 1806 the precedence of the Pope and the Emperor of the Romans over all other princes was acknowledged. 2003 Renaissance Q. 56 1028 He saw an alliance with the French as a counterbalance to the election of Charles Hapsburg..as King of the Romans. < as lemmas |
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