Religion helps unite peopleIt wasn't perfect but it did help
>>17986806Holy German Kingdom
>>17986806It was because the pope crowned the Emperor.That's also why it was Roman and and Empire.
The claim that it was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire is basically true in practice.
>>17986806Read a single historical primary source.
>>17986900Which Roman Emperor was crowded by the Pope before Charlamange?
>>17986806>HolyIt followed the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church>RomanChristians and Jews agreed there would not be another empire after Rome (see the Book of Daniel), so every empire after 476 would have to Roman as well.>EmpireIt was the single strongest and richest power in all of Western Eurasia, with the Pontifex Maximus acknowledging the imperial title.>>17986962At what point did the Roman Empire allow women to become emperors? Byzantine claim was null after Irene usurped the title and the Greeks embraced the iconoclast heresy.
>>17986962you're looking for some stupid gotcha, but the answer is because the roman church was the last remaining aspect of Rome in western europe. they spoke latin, they were based in rome, the leader had adopted one of the titles held by all the pre-christian emperors, so western rite christians saw them as being the continuation of rome and could grant that status to a secular ruler if they chose. they were 300+ years out from the last "real" latin emperor, nobody cared that the bishop of rome wasn't crowning emperors in 375 or whatever. especially by the time otto was crowned emperor, they had accepted that the pope had the authority to raise a king to an emperorthe other retard yapping about irene is also half right. that's why charlemagne was crowned, the pope and the west at large considered the imperial throne vacant. the carolingian empire rapidly disintegrated so it was seen as a one-off event especially once the political situation in the east stabilized. by the time otto was crowned, the east and west were well on their way to schism due to doctrinal differences so again the pope saw the empire as vacant because the greeks had abandoned the "true imperial way" ie refused to submit to the bishop of rome. otto would, so he was given the empire, which would become the HREyou can see that was the reasoning due to the investiture controversy ~100 years after the HRE was established. because the pope assumed the emperor agreed that the pope was the supreme power (because he accepted the crown from the pope), the pope happily appointed successors to bishops across the empire. the emperor insisted it was his realm so he was responsible for that, and it lead to decades of arguing and excommunications and armies marching down to rome
>>17986806It was Holy (Catholic) Roman (Catholic) and Empire (Habsburg/Catholic)Is that too complicated for you to understand?
>>17986806The early Carolingians, Ottonians, (most of) Salians, and Staufer (Hohenstaufen) dynasties were holy and kinoeverything after was pan-Germanic autism until Charles V tried to revive imperial ideologyUnfortunately German autism struck again in the shape of Martin Luther, and the eternal French went and allied with the fucking Ottomans right in the middle of a holy war. Inbreeding didn't help either, the empire had to be divided.
>>17986962Look at when it happened. The self-proclaimed Romans in Constantinople were in shambles and being ruled by a w*man who had blinded and murdered her own son the rightful emperor>but she was an iconodouledoesn't matter. There is no way the early medieval brutes in Western Europe were going to listen to some greek banshee They needed an emperor, Big Chuck fit the bill perfectly, so they crowned him allegedly
>>17986962The Roman Empires of the East were.That's why it seemed important to Charlemagne in the first place.
