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Sigismund's Final Years as Holy Roman Emperor (1430s)

Type Event Region Europe Time 1433–1437

Sigismund of the House of Luxembourg was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome in 1433, the apex of his career;…

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  1. 1433Rome · RomePope Eugene IV performed the imperial coronation of Sigismund in Rome, marking the recognition of his decades of political maneuvering by imperial legal authority. He had long served as King of Hungary and Croatia and had intervened in disputes over the Bohemian throne.
  2. 1433–1436Imperial estates of Central Europe · Holy Roman EmpireAfter his coronation Sigismund continued to advance the Council of Basel and sought to end the Hussite Wars through a compromise and to establish royal authority over Bohemia. He traveled among the imperial estates, reconciling the interests of princes and the Church, and consolidating the Luxembourg family's influence in Central Europe.
  3. 1437Znojmo · ZnojmoSigismund died at Znojmo at about seventy years of age. His daughter Elizabeth's husband Albert II subsequently succeeded to the thrones of Hungary and Bohemia and was elected King of the Romans in 1438 (he died in 1439 before being crowned), as the Empire entered the pre-Habsburg phase of its electoral politics.

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