Sentence examples for secular electors from inspiring English sources
In this process, seven Imperial Electors the four secular electors of Bohemia, Brandenburg, the Palatinate, and Saxony; and the three ecclesiastical electors of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne selected an emperor.
The Bohemian king's obligations were reduced to a minimum, but, as elector, he ranked first among the four secular members of the college of electors.
Emperors were chosen by seven (later eight, nine, then ten) electors, the leading secular and ecclesiastical princes.
They won the right to participate in the election of the emperor, a right confirmed by the Golden Bull of 1356, which made the elector palatine the chief secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
The electoral roll will include female Victorian electors born between 1 January 1944 and 31 December 1983, excluding silent and overseas electors.
Thus, the formerly exclusive club of the prince-electors now had nine members, six of whom were secular princes, and further changes seemed possible.
Jacquet de la Guerre also published sets of cantatas on both sacred themes (1708, 1711) and secular ones (1715); the volume of secular cantatas was dedicated to one of her patrons, Maximillian II Emanuel, the exiled elector of Bavaria who was then living near Paris under the French king's protection.
Electors will now have two votes.
The secular activists won.
This time the guest electors were fewer.
