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electorGerman Kurfürst.Prince of the Holy Roman Empire who had a right to participate in electing the German emperor. Beginning c. 1273, and with the confirmation of the Golden Bull, there were seven electors: the archbishops of Trier, Mainz, and Cologne; the duke of Saxony; the count palatine of the Rhine; the margrave of Brandenburg; and the king of Bohemia. Other electorates were created much later for Bavaria (1623–1778), Hanover (1708), and Hesse-Kassel (1803), but by the 17th century the electors' office had become meaningless because the Habsburg dynasty produced the de facto emperors. The office disappeared when the empire was abolished in 1806. elector 1. someone who is eligible to vote in the election of a government 2. a member of the US electoral college 3. (in the Holy Roman Empire) any of the German princes entitled to take part in the election of a new emperor |
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In remorse the Sovereign Elector deprived himself of political influence by learning to read. This was the accession of the Elector of Hanover to the throne of England, in 1714, on the death of Queen Anne. In one of the conflicts, the emperor himself was put to flight, and very near being made prisoner by the elector of Saxony. |
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