Editing Prince-elector (section)

== Marks of office ==
===Electoral arms===
[[File:Wapen 1545 Kaiserwappen des Heiligen Römischen Reichs Polychromie.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|Coats of arms of prince electors surround the Holy Roman Emperor's; from flags book of [[Jacob Köbel]] (163#+1545). Left to right: Cologne, Bohemia, Brandenburg, Saxony, the Palatinate, Trier, Mainz]]
Below are the State arms of each Imperial Elector. Emblems of [[#High offices|Imperial High Offices]] are shown on the appropriate arms.
[[File:Maximilian I HStAS B 515.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|The emperor [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian]] surrounded by shields of electorates]]

Three Electors Spiritual (Archbishops): all three were annexed by various powers through [[German mediatisation|German Mediatisation]] of 1803.

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File:Mainz Arms.svg|[[Electorate of Mainz|Mainz]]
File:Trier Arms.svg|[[Electorate of Trier|Trier]]
File:Coat of Arms of Electorate of Cologne.svg|[[Electorate of Cologne|Cologne]]  
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Four Electors Secular:

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File:Arch Cupbearer Holding Augment.png|alt=Kingdom of Bohemia.  The white lion bears in his right paw a simple crown, the emblem of the office of Arch Cupbearer.  Restored directly from Medieval, hand-drawn armorials.|[[Kingdom of Bohemia]]. The white lion bears in his right paw a simple crown, the device of the office of  Arch Cupbearer. Restored directly from Medieval, hand-drawn [[armorial]]s.{{efn|name=armorial Frederick III}}{{efn|name=armorial Maximilian I}}{{efn|name=Kurrent}}
File:Arms of the Electoral Palatinate (Variant 1).svg|[[Electoral Palatine|The Palatinate]] was an electorate until 1777, when the Elector acceded to Bavaria. The office of [[Arch-Treasurer]] transferred to Hanover.
File:Blason Jean-Georges IV de Saxe.svg|[[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]]
File:Arms of Brandenburg.svg|[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]]  
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Electors added in the 17th century:

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File:Arms of Charles VII Albert, Holy Roman Emperor.svg|[[Electorate of Bavaria|Bavaria]] was granted electoral dignity by [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]] in 1623, removing the dignity from the Count Palatine of the Rhine.
Royal Hanover Inescutcheon.svg|[[Electorate of Hanover|Hanover]] (Brunswick-Lüneburg), made an elector by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] in 1692 as a reward for aid given in the [[War of the Grand Alliance]]. Later, the ceremonial office of Chief Treasurer was transferred here from the Palatinate.
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====Napoleonic additions====

As Napoleon waged war on Europe, between 1803 and 1806, the following changes to the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire were attempted until the Empire's collapse. The arch-chancellor of Germany and archbishop elector of Mainz continued to be an elector, but as the prince of Regensburg, which took over Mainz's arch-episcopal status. The prince of Württemberg received the formerly defunct office of Arch-Bannerbearer, while the other new electors were not given augments or high office in the imperial household, though new offices were planned.<ref name="heraldica">{{Cite web |title=the Holy Roman Empire |url=https://www.heraldica.org/topics/national/hre.htm#Electors |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Heraldica}}</ref>

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File:Augmented arms of electoral Württemberg.png|In 1777, the number of Electors dropped from nine to eight, until 1803, when [[Electorate of Württemberg|Württemberg]] was raised to an electorate by [[Reichsdeputationshauptschluss|the Imperial diet]], while the prince himself was elevated from Standard-Bearer ({{lang|de|Bannerherr}}) to Arch-Standardbearer.<ref name="heraldica" />
File:Arms_of_the_house_of_Hesse-Kassel_(3).svg|[[Electorate of Hesse|Hesse-Cassel]] was added in 1803.
File:Wappen Regensburg.svg|[[Electorate of Regensburg|Principality of Regensburg]], ruled by the [[Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg|former prince-archbishop of Mainz]] was added in 1803, after the annexation of [[Electorate of Mainz|Mainz]] by the French.
File:Kursalzburg.png|[[Electorate of Salzburg|Grand Duchy of Salzburg]] was added in 1803. After it was [[German mediatization|mediatized]] [[Peace of Pressburg (1805)|to Austria]] in 1805, its electoral vote was transferred to [[Grand Duchy of Würzburg|Würzburg]]. Salzburg and Würzburg were ruled by the same person, [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Ferdinand III]].
File:Wappen Großherzogtum Würzburg.svg|[[Electorate of Würzburg|Duchy of Würzburg]] was added in 1805.
File:Coat of arms of Baden.svg|[[Electorate of Baden|Margraviate of Baden]] was added in 1803.  
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