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@cmdrmoto @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz Ironically, he was crowned *Roman* Emperor, i.e. of the Holy Roman Empire, which occupied much of central Europe throughout the middle ages.

Charlemagne, not Lee.

And the Holy Roman Empire got an addition later to its name "... of German nations", because that's where most of it was (TL;DR).

Now Hitler's Germany was calling itself the Third Reich, because the first was the Roman Empire, the second the Holy Roman Empire of German nations.