Reichsgubernator
As Reichsgubernatoren the people are called that for Emperor Frederick II. And King Konrad IV. The shops in the Holy Roman Empire led, while the rulers in itself kingdom of Sicily were staying, and even did not have the royalty.
Officially, the rule for the absent Frederick was exercised by his sons Heinrich (VII.) (1220 to 1235) and Conrad IV (1237 to 1250 vivente imperatore , then independent until 1254), both of whom were elected Roman king and, in the case of Henry, too were crowned. Since both sons were minors most of the time, rule was exercised by a guardian. This person was known as the Reich Governor.
In Heinrich's case, a Regency Council was set up in 1220. This was headed by the Reichsgubernator. Engelbert , Archbishop of Cologne, had been Imperial Governor since Heinrich's coronation in 1220 . After Engelbert's assassination in 1225, Ludwig dem Kelheimer , Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine near the Rhine , was given the office of imperial governor and guardianship by Friedrich II on a court day in Augsburg in July 1226. Just two years later, on December 25, 1228, Heinrich got rid of Ludwig's guardianship and ruled independently.
After Heinrich's deposition in 1235 and the underage Konrad's election as king in 1237, an imperial governor was again required to exercise rule. This was initially Siegfried , Archbishop of Mainz. When Siegfried suddenly allied himself with the Cologne Archbishop Konrad against the emperor, Friedrich Siegfried deposed and appointed Heinrich Raspe and Wenzel I of Bohemia as his successors in 1241 . From around 1245 on, Konrad also ruled independently.
Conrad IV himself appointed the last imperial gubernator: before he moved to Sicily after the death of his father to take over his inheritance, he entrusted Duke Otto II of Bavaria with the exercise of rule in the empire at a court conference in Augsburg in June 1251 .
After the end of the Hohenstaufen rule, the term Reichsgubernator was no longer used.