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**WoCTrt0X** · 06-06-2012, 11:52 PM

But the First Reich lasted from 962 to 1806.

Yeah, but one could say that it was dead long before the 1806 date, cuz' the Reformation and the subsequent wars (Thirty Years War et. al.) effectively killed the Empire. As Voltaire would say on his time "The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, much less an Empire", or something like that. What Napoleon did was practically to make de jure the existing de facto situation.

06-06-2012, 11:52 PM	#12
WoCTrt0X Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	But the First Reich lasted from 962 to 1806. Yeah, but one could say that it was dead long before the 1806 date, cuz' the Reformation and the subsequent wars (Thirty Years War et. al.) effectively killed the Empire. As Voltaire would say on his time "The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, much less an Empire", or something like that. What Napoleon did was practically to make de jure the existing de facto situation.
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