Prince of the Empire

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A Prince of the Empire was a high-ranking noble within the Holy Roman Empire who held immediate feudal authority and a seat in the Imperial Diet.

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Label Occurrences
Prince of the Empire canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf feudal rank
imperial estate
noble title
equivalentLabel Reichsfürst (Imperial Prince)
surface form: Reichsfürst
existedInPeriod Early modern period
Middle Ages
existedUntil dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806
governedByLaw imperial public law
governedTerritoryType immediate lordship
imperial principality
grantedBy Holy Roman Emperor
hadCollectiveInfluenceOn imperial legislation
imperial military policy
imperial taxation
hadCollectiveRole electing the Holy Roman Emperor
hasConceptualSuccessor German mediatized princes
hasFeudalStatus imperial immediacy
hasJurisdictionOver immediate territory
hasObligation attendance at the Imperial Diet
military service to the Empire
hasPoliticalRight seat in the Imperial Diet
vote in the Imperial Diet
hasPrivilege imperial immediacy
territorial sovereignty within the Empire
hasRank high-ranking noble
hasType ecclesiastical prince
secular prince
includesRank count palatine
duke
landgrave
margrave
prince-abbot
prince-bishop
prince-elector
languageOfTerm German
legalStatus Reichsfürst (Imperial Prince)
surface form: Reichsfürst
memberOf Imperial Estates
participatedInBody College of Princes
partOf Holy Roman Empire
rankedAbove imperial city
imperial knight
rankedBelow Holy Roman Emperor
regulatedBy Golden Bull of 1356
subjectTo imperial overlordship
usedHonorific Fürst
Princeps
wasSovereignIn internal affairs of their territory

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück hadRulerRank Prince of the Empire
Napoleonic nobility titleStyle Prince of the Empire