The Quaternionenadler was a version of the Imperial Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. It showed the Coats of arms of the Imperial realms grouped into groups of four.
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Three ecclesiastic: Archbishopric of Trier / Electorate of Cologne / Archbishopric of Mainz
(The Prefect of Rome)
Four secular: Kingdom of Bohemia / Electoral Palatinate / Electorate of Saxony / Margraviate of Brandenburg
The Peasants: Cologne / Regensburg / Konstanz / Salzburg
The Cities: Augsburg / Metz / Aachen / Lübeck
The semperfrei: Schenken von Limpurg / Westerburg / Thussis / Albalten
The Burgraves: Maidburg / Nuremberg / Rieneck / Stromberg
The Margraves: Moravia / Brandenburg / Meissen / Baden
The Pillars: Braunschweig / Bavaria / Swabia / Lorraine
The Vicarii (Stadtholders): Brabant / Lower Saxony / Westerreich / Silesia
The Landgraves: Thuringia / Alsace / Hesse* / Leuchtenberg
The Graves (Counts): Cleves / Savoy / Schwarzburg / Cilli
The Ritter (Knights): Andelab / Weissenbach / Fraunberg / Limburg
The Villages: Bamberg / Ulm / Haguenau / Schledtstadt
The Castles: Magdeburg / Luxembourg / Rothenburg / Oldenburg
- This image was done in 1510, a few years before the territory was broken up.
Version from Spruch vom Römischen Reich (1422)
Edition images:
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- 7 Electors:
- 3 Archbishops:
- Meintz, Cölen, Trier
- 4 princes:
- Sachsen (Marschalck), Pfaltzgraue pey Rein (Truckseß), Brandenburgk (Kamerer), Boheymus
- 4 hertzogen:
- Pfaltzgraue pey reyn, Luttringen, Braunstzweyg, Swaben
- 4Marggraue:
- Brandenburg, Meychsen, Merhern, Lottringen
- 4 Lantgraue:
- Doringen, Hessen, Leuchttenberg, Eßeßheym (in Elsaß)
- 4 burggrauen:
- Meydburgk, Nureinbergk, Reyneck,[1] Strumbergk
- 4 grauen:
- Kleff & Swartzpurck, Lunpurck & Tusiß, Westerburg,[2], Allewalden.
- 4 ritter:
- Andlan,[3], Strundeck, Meldingen, Frawenburg[4]
- 4 stet:
- Augspurck, Mentz, Ach, lübegk
- 4 dorffer:
- Bambergk, Sletstat, Ylme, Hagenaw
- 4 gepauwern:
- Cölnn, Regenßpurgk, Constantz, Saltzpurg
- Editor's notes
Place near the confluence of the Rhine and the Lake of Constance
Place in the Westerwald, county of Leiningen-Westerburg.
Andlau in Lower Alsace, near Schlettstadt
The Holy Roman Quaternionenadler