The Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, 1356–1648 | Calm Bedtime History

It is the tenth of January, 1356, in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Emperor Charles IV, King of Bohemia, stands before the assembled princes of the Holy Roman Empire to proclaim a new law. The document he presents will bind Germany for four and a half centuries. It is called the Golden Bull, and it names seven men who alone will choose every king and emperor until the empire itself dissolves in 1806.

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