Prince-Elector
Sign in to savethumb|400px|The imperial prince-electors Left to right: Archbishop of Cologne, [[Archbishop of Mainz, Archbishop of Trier, Count Palatine, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Brandenburg and King of Bohemia (Codex Balduini Trevirorum, )]] thumb|Choosing the king. Above: the three ecclesiastical princes choosing the king, pointing at him. Middle: the Electorate of the Palatinate|Count Palatine of the Rhine hands over a golden bowl, acting as a servant. Behind him, the Duke of Saxony with his marshal's staff and the [[Margrave of Brandenburg bringing a bowl of warm water, as a valet. Below, the new king
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A Prince-Elector was a high-ranking German nobleman or church leader who held the special privilege of voting to elect the Holy Roman Emperor. These electors, who included archbishops and secular rulers like dukes and counts, wielded significant political power through their role in selecting the empire's leader.
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- Rights and privileges
- Imperial Diet
- Elections
- High offices
- History
- 1257 to Thirty Years' War
- Thirty Years' War to Napoleon
- After the Empire
- Marks of office
- Electoral arms
- Napoleonic additions
- Timeline of electors
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Notes
- External links
thumb|400px|The imperial prince-electors Left to right: Archbishop of Cologne, [[Archbishop of Mainz, Archbishop of Trier, Count Palatine, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Brandenburg and King of Bohemia (Codex Balduini Trevirorum, )]] thumb|Choosing the king. Above: the three ecclesiastical princes choosing the king, pointing at him. Middle: the Electorate of the Palatinate|Count Palatine of the Rhine hands over a golden bowl, acting as a servant. Behind him, the Duke of Saxony with his marshal's staff and the [[Margrave of Brandenburg bringing a bowl of warm water, as a valet. Below, the new king in front of the great men of the empire (Heidelberg Sachsenspiegel, around 1300).]]
A Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire (; , pl. , from the Middle High German kure "choice" and the German Fürst "prince") was a member of the Electoral College of the Holy Roman Empire, which elected the Holy Roman Emperor, initially according to formally unregulated customs, and since 1356 in accordance with provisions of the Golden Bull. The office was abolished in 1806, upon the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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