Coat of arms   Someones added a coat of arms to the article  However I believe that they are in fact either personal to the emperor and thus belong at Holy Roman Emperor or more likely are just for the Habsburg monarchy  Can anyone either confirm or contradict this     Silverhelm is right These coats of arms is one of the Emperor if the year given  is correct it is Rudolf II including lands not belonging to the HRE Hungary Croatia The crown is the Rudolfinian house crown created by Rudolf II It was used by the Emperor at state occasions the Imperial crown was only avaiable for the coronation and in  was declared the Austrian Imperial crown     Ottoman Empire   Why does the article asis make no mention of the Ottoman Empire who was probably the biggest militaryeconomic opponent of the HRE in the th and early  c when both were at their largest and most powerful points  Just a suggestion for possible improvement  unsigned  The Habsburg Empire is not the Holy Roman Empire  The latter was most certainly not at its most powerful point in the th and th centuries Some mention of the Turkish threat in the th century would likely be appropriate though    fair points  unsigned  Wasnt the Holy Roman Empire at war with the Ottoman Empire during Suleiman Is reign I dont see any mention of this in the article     News German Wiki Notice Board   Since it is much needed I created the WikipediaGermanWikipediansnoticeboard I am not a German and so it needs people of the German wikipedian community to bring it up to scratch        Why was the Dutch line removed   Might I ask why the Dutch translation of The Holy Roman Empire removed   Dutch was just as much a language of the Holy Roman Empire as high german and low Saxon the latter is not included btw   Dutch has been traced back to the begin of th century  We also must not forget that the German part in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation does not refer to Germany or specifically the GermansDuring the age of the Holy Roman Empire till far in the th century German  did not existIn fact the English variant of German in German was Dutch  compare Deutsch and it refered to every native speaker of a continental west germanic languageIn other words anyone living within the present day countries of The Netherlands Germany Austria Switzerland or northern Belgium  I would especially like to receive a responds from  who reverted my edit     The same material is repeated later in the same article along with several other counterparts  It is good style to try to avoid overloading the first paragraph  Further I can nearly be certain that Heilige Roomse Rijk der Duitse Volkeren is not how they spoke Dutch in the th century For that matter neither is Heiliges Rmisches Reich Deutscher Nation     That is true Kaihsu about the Dutch and German in the th century but the Holy Roman Empire lasted well into the modern era early th century in fact and for the last few centuries of its existence modern German was the dominant language of the empire   So then why is german mentioned in the beginning of the article    German is and should be mentioned in beginning of the article because modern High German was the dominant language in the empire for part of its history late middle age modern era until  Before this period Latin and Middle German a predeccessor of modern Dutch and German were the primary languages Modern Dutch was never a language of the Holy Roman Empire as the Dutch left the HRE before modern Dutch was standardized The empire was especially towards it end overwhelmingly German speaking and that language dominated the politics and culture of the HRE for centuries  That Sander is why German along with Latin is mentioned at the start of the article Dutch on the other does belong in the list of successor languages