King elevation

The elevation to the king in the Carolingian Empire and later in the Holy Roman Empire includes an electoral assembly (since 1024), voting or cure and homage , in the case of a selection by the predecessor, designation , enthronement , acceptance of the imperial insignia , anointing , and coronation , the acclamation and the king's ride .

Not as a legal act, but politically important is the invitation . It can either be issued by the voters to the king to be elected, as happened in Aquitaine in 839 with Pippin II , or by invitation of the voters to an electoral assembly such as 1024 in the election of Conrad II and 1125 in the election of Lothar of Supplinburg .