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    An imperial vicar (German: Reichsvikar) was a prince charged with administering all or part of the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of the emperor. Later, an...
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    Attems, 1139–1152 (imperial vicar) Welf VI, 1152–1160 Welf VII, 1160–1167 Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne, 1160–1163 (imperial vicar) Christian of...
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    Cangrande and Alboino, whom he made Imperial Vicars of Verona. In April 1311, the two brothers co-led an Imperial Army which swiftly liberated Verona's...
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    Antioch (c. 1223 – 1255/6) was an Italian nobleman who served as the imperial vicar of Tuscany from 1246 to 1250. He was an illegitimate son of Frederick...
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    Castile, a claimant to the German throne. Alfonso also appointed him imperial vicar to advance his claims on the Holy Roman Empire. In 1251, he married...
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    in October 1310, with his eldest son John remaining in Prague as the Imperial vicar. As he crossed the Alps and travelled into the Lombard plain, nobles...
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    counts who received their title by letters patent from the emperor or an Imperial vicar were recognized within the subsequent German Empire as retaining their...
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    and Mannheim. The counts palatine of the Rhine held the office of imperial vicars in the territories under Frankish law (in Franconia, Swabia and the...
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  • Rabodo (or Rapoto) was the imperial vicar and marquis of Tuscany from 1116 until his death in battle in 1119. A German count, Rabodo was appointed by the...
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  • Ulrich of Attems, imperial vicar (1139–1152) Welf VI, Margrave (1152–1160) Welf VII, Margrave (1160–1167) Rainald of Dassel, imperial vicar (1160–1163) Christian...
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    Augustus II the Strong (category Imperial vicars)
    lavish baroque palaces in Dresden and Warsaw. In 1711 he served as the Imperial vicar of the Holy Roman Empire. His reigns brought Poland some troubled times...
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    of being summoned. During the interregnum, imperial power was exercised by two imperial vicars. Each vicar, in the words of the Golden Bull, was "the...
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    Gonzaga family who was the first capitano del popolo of Mantua and imperial vicar. Born in Mantua, he was the son of Guido Corradi and the grandson of...
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    Franciscans and the Dominicans from Lombardy and electing his son Enzo as Imperial vicar for Northern Italy. Enzo soon annexed the Romagna, Marche, and the Duchy...
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    experienced a cultural boom. In 1111 Matilda was reportedly crowned Imperial Vicar and Vice-Queen of Italy by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor. With her death...
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    engaged in bitter clashes also with the imperial authority. After the marquess of Monferrato was appointed imperial vicar in Pavia by Charles IV, the relationship...
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    and was known as "Thomas the Ghibelline" because of his career as Imperial Vicar of Lombardy. Thomas worked throughout his reign to expand the control...
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    Charles IV, who granted him and his two brothers, the shared title of imperial vicar. Although Visconti military activities in North Italy allowed Galeazzo...
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  • Carrick- countess suo jure Matilda, Margrave of Tuscany – Italian, Imperial Vicar and Vice-Queen of Italy suo jure, Margrave suo jure Eleanor, Duchess...
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    moved on to Grosseto and then to Pisa, where he was guarded by the imperial vicar. On 19 February 1329, Nicholas V presided at a ceremony in the Duomo...
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    succeeded him as lord of Milan. Matteo was appointed numerous times as Imperial Vicar over the whole of Lombardy, while expanding, with the assistance of...
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    Matilda of Tuscany (category Imperial vicars)
    suitable heir. Between 6 and 11 May 1111, Matilda was reportedly crowned Imperial Vicar and Vice-Queen of Italy by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor at the Castle...
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    Duchess Maria. On 22 March 1657, Charles II receives the appointment as Imperial Vicar in Italy. Charles sold the Duchies of Nevers and Rethel in 1659 to Cardinal...
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    offered the imperial crown, but refused to "pick up a crown from the gutter". elected by the Frankfurt National Assembly as Imperial Vicar of a new German...
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    During his visit to Paris in early 1378, Charles IV granted the title of Imperial vicar over the Kingdom of Arles to the nine-year-old Dauphin Charles of France...
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    condottiero, son of Ludovico I Gonzaga capitano del popolo of Mantua and imperial vicar. He was elected podestà of Mantua in 1328, as well as of Reggio Emilia...
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    his friendship network and political skills granted him the title of Imperial vicar at Ostiglia, and podestà of Cerea. He was an ancestor of most European...
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  • He was the first lord and imperial vicar of Mirandola (1311-1321), and also podestà (1311-12 and 1318-19) and imperial vicar of Modena (1311-12). He was...
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  • Alfonso I del Carretto (category Imperial vicars)
    till 1499 and then again from 1514 till 1516. He was also appointed an Imperial vicar in the Holy Roman Empire from 1498. Società ligure di storia patria...
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    edifice was officially consecrated in 1197, in the presence of the Imperial Vicar, Bishop Conrad of Hildesheim, and of numerous bishops, prelates and...
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