Elector

elector English Noun en historical A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector. XIX The Subject [the insufficiency of the present confederation to preserve the Union] Continued, with Farther Examples 117 In one of the conflicts, the [Holy Roman] emperor himſelf was put to flight, and very near being made priſoner by the elector of Saxony. en w:Will Durant; w:Ariel Durant Imperial Armageddon: 1564–1648 The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558–1648 w:The Story of Civilization 7 New York, N.Y. w:Simon & Schuster 1961 538 https://books.google.com/books?id=LO_betbQgNoC&pg=PA538 978-0-671-01320-2 [T]he seven Imperial electors who chose the [Holy Roman] emperor controlled him by the pledges exacted from him as the price of his election. These electors were the king of Bohemia, the rulers of Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate, and the "spiritual electors"—the archbishops of Cologne, Trier, and Mainz. en Veronica P. M. Baker-Smith An Electoral Family A Life of Anne of Hanover, Princess Royal Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute Leiden no. 13 (New Series) Leiden; New York, N.Y. E[vert] J[an] Brill 1995 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=h1alEmaR5GMC&pg=PA1 978-90-04-10198-2 0920-5551 Hanover, seat of the electors, was an attractive small town set on the River Leine. [...] The electoral court was in residence at Herrenhausen only between May and October, so that by the beginning of November 1709 the only activity was in one of the private wings where Caroline of Ansbach, wife of the elector’s heir, had chosen to give birth to her second child. Alternative forms en elector Derived terms en Electress,electress Electress Consort,electress consort Prince-Elector,prince-elector Princess-Electress,princess-electress Translations German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Afrikaans: af keurvors Belarusian: be курфю́рст m Bulgarian: bg курфю́рст m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 選帝侯 xuǎndìhóu Czech: cs kurfiřt m Danish: da kurfyrste c (da kurfyrstinde f Elector's wife) Dutch: nl keurvorst m Esperanto: eo princo-elektisto Estonian: et kuurvürst Faroese: fo kjørfúrsti m Finnish: fi vaaliruhtinas French: fr prince-électeur m (fr princesse-électrice f Elector's wife) German: de Kurfürst m (de Kurfürstin f Elector's wife) Greek: el ελέκτορας m Hungarian: hu választófejedelem Icelandic: is kjörfursti m Italian: it principe elettore m Japanese: ja 選帝侯 せんていこう, senteikō Korean: ko 선제후 Latin: la princeps elector imperii m, la princeps elector m, la elector m Lithuanian: lt kurfiurstas m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb kurfyrste m (nb kurfyrstinne f Elector's wife) Nynorsk: nn kurfyrste m (nn kurfyrstinne f Elector's wife) Polish: pl elektor m-pr Portuguese: pt príncipe-eleitor m, pt príncipe eleitor m Russian: ru курфю́рст m Slovak: sk kurfirst m Swedish: sv kurfurste c (sv kurfurstinna c Elector's wife) Ukrainian: uk курфю́рст m Vietnamese: vi tuyển đế hầu Volapük: vo davälaplin male or female, vo davälahiplin male (vo davälajiplin Elector's wife) Further reading prince-elector Anagrams en ceelort corelet electro electro- en Feudalism German politics