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King of the Romans en · PROPN
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(historical) The monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, originally specifically prior to their formal coronation as emperor by the Pope.
Ferdinand's IV's coronation as king of the Romans in 1653 made liturgical concessions to Protestantism, and merely required the monarch to respect rather than obey the pope.
2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 75:
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King of the Jews · Epistle to the Romans