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Seeking All Ancestors

Searching For Ancestors Everywhere!
Researching Rulers of Holy Roman Empire

 

Below is a list of all the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. Please feel free to let me know of any information I am missing or is incorrect. You can contact me at kcrossno at seekingallancestors.com.

Carolingian House

Reigned Name / Notes
800-814 Charles I, The Great (Charlemagne, king of the Franks 768; crowned emperor 800)
814-840 Louis I, the Pious (son; crowned emperor 813, 816
840-855 Lothair I (son; crowned emperor 817, 823)
855-875 Louis II (son; crowned emperor 850)
875-877 Charles II, the Bald (son of Louis I; crowned emperor 875; interregnum 877-81)
881-887 Charles III, the Fat (nephew; crowned emperor 881; deposed, died 888)
887-899 Arnulf of Carinthia (nephew; crowned emperor 896)
900-911 Louis III, the Child (son)

House of Franconia

911-918 Conrad I

House of Saxony

919-936 Henry I, the Fowler
936-973 Otto I, the Great (son; crowned emperor 962)
973-983 Otto II (son; co-regent 961; crowned emperor 967)
983-1002 Otto III (son; co-regent 983; crowned emperor 996)
1002-1024 St. Henry II (g-grandson of Henry I; crowned emperor 1014)

Salian House

1024-1039

Conrad II (g-grandson of Liutgard, dau of Otto I; crowned emperor 1027)
1039-1056 Henry III (son; co-regent 1054; crowned emperor 1084; deposed, died 1106)
1056-1105 Henry IV (son; co-regent 1054; crowned emperor 1084; deposed, died 1106)
1077-1080 [Rudolf of Swabia]
1081-1088 [Herman of Salm]
1087-1098 Conrad (son of Henry IV; co-regent; deposed, died 1101)
1105-1125 Henry V (brother; co-regent 1099; crowned emperor 1111)

House of Supplinburg

1125-1137 Lothair II of Saxony (crowned emperor 1133)

House of Hohenstaufen

1138-1152 Conrad II (son of Agnes, dau of Henry IV, and Frederick I of Swabia; rival King 1127-35)
1147-1150 Henry (son; co-regent)
1152-1190 Frederick I, Barbarossa (nephew of Conrad III; crowned emperor 1155)
1190-1197 Henry VI (son; co-regent 1169; crowned emperor 1191)
1198-1208 Philip of Swabia (brother)

House of Welf

1198-1218 Otto IV of Brunswick (crowned emperor 1209

House of Hohenstaufen

1212-1250 Frederick II (son of Henry VI; crowned emperor 1220)
1220-1235 Henry (son; co-regent; deposed, died 1242)
1246-1247 [Henry Raspe of Thuringia]
1247-1256 [William of Holland]
1250-1254 Conrad IV (son of Frederick II; co-regent 1237)
1257-1272 [Richard of Cornwall]

House of Habsburg

1273-1291 Rudolf I

House of Nassau

1292-1298 Adolf (deposed, died 1298)

House of Habsburg

1298-1308 Albert I of Austria (son of Rudolf I)

House of Luxemburg

1308-1313 Henry VII (crowned emperor 1312)

House of Wittelsbach

1314-1347 Louis IV of Bavaria (crowned emperor 1328)
1314-1330 [Frederick of Austria](son of Albert I)

House of Luxembourg

1346-1378 Charles IV (gson of Henry VII; crowned emperor 1355)
1349 [Gunther of Schwarzburg] (abdicated, died 1349)
1378-1400 Wenceslas (son of Charles IV; co-regent 1376; deposed, died 1419)

House of Wittelsbach

1400-1410 Rupert of the Palatine

House of Luxembourg

1410-1437 Sigismund (son of Charles IV; crowned emperor 1433)
1410-1411 [Jobst of Moravia] (nephew of Charles IV)

House of Habsburg

1438-1439 Albert II of Austria (4th in descent from Albert I)
1440-1493 Frederick III (2nd cousin; crowned emperor 1452)
1493-1519 Maximilian I (son; co-regent 1486; emperor 1508)
1519-1556 Charles V (gson; crowned emperor 1530; abdicated, died 1558)
1556-1564 Ferdinand I (brother)
1564-1576 Maximilian II (son)
1576-1612 Rudolf II (son)
1612-1619 Matthias (brother)
1619-1637 Ferdinand II (gson of Ferdinand I)
1637-1657 Ferdinand III (son)
1658-1705 Leopold I (son)
1705-1711 Joseph I (son)
1711-1740 Charles VI (brother; interregnum 1740-2)

House of Wittelsbach

1742-1745 Charles VII of Bavaria

House of Habsburg-Lorraine

1745-1765 Francis I of Lorraine (m. Maria Theresa, dau of Charles VI)
1740-1780 Maria Theresa (wife of Francis I & dau of Charles VI)
1780-1790 Joseph II (son)
1790-1792 Leopold II (brother)
1792-1806 Francis II (son; abdicated; emperor of Austria as Francis I 1804-1835)
HRH Duke of Connaught and his family on the 1881 English census
HRH Duke of Connaught and his family on the 1881 English census, from Ancestry.com.