II.   Sovereign

Romanorum Rex, also known as King of the Romans, is the sovereign title first created by Charles Martel in the 8th Century CE as the “supreme Christian Sovereign” and to support a series of false claims that the Carolingian Empire was a direct continuation of the “first and true” founders of Christianity in Rome under St. Peter and not Antioch (Constantinople) under the Byzantine Empire.

Unlike hereditary monarchies, the Carolingians determined a “true sovereign” must first be elected by unanimous acclamation or ballot by authorized electors and then accept such high office under sacred oath memorialized by a written and sealed covenant in order to be legitimate in accordance with Sacre Loi (Sacred Law). Therefore, succession to the position of Romanorum Rex (“King of the Romans”) from its inception was by election.

In accordance with Sacre Loi (Sacred Law), no person may claim to be a true “sovereign” unless:

(i) The person was elected by unanimous acclamation or ballot by authorized electors; and

(ii) The person elected accepted the office under sacred oath; and

(iii) A Covenant memorializing the event was commissioned, signed and sealed as witness to the sacred event.

In accordance with Sacre Loi (Sacred Law), only persons of title and property were permitted to be known as “electors” for the purpose of an election.  The first electors were called “Elector Palatine” meaning the Electors of Palatine Hill (Rome), being the former location for the palace of the pagan Roman Emperor prior to loss of power of the city in the 3rd Century CE.

The first Romanorum Rex elected was Charles the Younger at the Parlomentum of 742 CE and was also the first sovereign to be crowned through a Coronation ceremony on December 25th of the same year.

In 800 CE, Charlemagne introduced an additional position being Romanorum Imperator or “Holy Roman Emperor” of Imperium Romanum Sacrum (IRS) as his title under Coronation from Christmas Day of the same year as a means of totally disenfranchising the legitimacy of the original Holly Roman Empire founded in the 4th Century by Constantine. Thus, from this point, all subsequent Carolingian leaders were first crowned as Romanorum Rex (“king of the Romans”) before being coronated as Romanorum Imperator “Holy Roman Emperor”.

At the end of the Carolingian Dynasty at the end of the 10th Century, the tradition of first being Romanorum Rex (“king of the Romans”) before being coronated as Romanorum Imperator “Holy Roman Emperor” was continued by the Saxon Ottonian Dynasty.

The last “official” Romanorum Rex or “King of the Romans” was King Maximilian I of the House of Habsburg who in 1508 became the first Holy Roman Emperor elected without being crowned by a Pope.

The last Romanorum Imperator or “Holy Roman Emperor” of the Imperium Romanum Sacrum (IRS) was Francis II of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine who abdicated and dissolved the position in August 1806.