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Holy Roman Empress
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English
Alternative forms
en Holy Roman empress holy Roman empress<l:rare>
Etymology
After en Holy Roman Empire.
Noun
Holy Roman Empress
en historical An empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
en Holy Roman Emperor
15 August 2011 Mark Brown Habsburg exhibition reveals Holy Roman emperors' taste in bling https://web.archive.org/web/20130930184232/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/aug/15/hapsburgs-exhibition-fitzwilliam-cambridge Picture the scene. You're the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, you've enjoyed a splendid 18th century banquet surrounded by the most powerful people in your domains and it's time to sort yourself out with a post-prandial pick of the teeth, a scrape of the tongue and a spoon of the ear.
23 August 2017 Rosemary McClure Party like its 1717 on a Danube River cruise celebrating Maria Theresa of Austria https://web.archive.org/web/20170823153925/https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-tc-danube-cruise-20170827-story.html Waltz into a grand Austrian celebration this fall on the Danube River on an eight-day cruise marking the 300th birthday of Maria Theresa of Austria, whose one-time titles included Holy Roman Empress; Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia and Slavonia; Archduchess of Austria; and Duchess of Parma.
25 September 2025 Nina Siegal The Dutch Masters Were Women, Too https://web.archive.org/web/20250925121930/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/arts/design/dutch-old-masters-women-exhibition-national-museum.html The Dutch textile and paper-cutting artist Joanna Koerten, for example, sold a piece made of “woven silk” to a Holy Roman Empress for 4,000 guilders — twice the price Rembrandt fetched for his world-famous painting, “Night Watch.”
Further reading
list of Holy Roman empresses