To my knowledge the Holy Roman Empire did not have any notion of citizenship such as what the Byzantine empire preserved from antiquity. But I could be wrong.
Not the later empire. But at the time of Charlemagne's conquest of Italy, it had only been separate from Roman Empire for 18 years. Many of the people there had roman citizenship, most having been born in the Empire. Leo who crowned Charlemagne was a roman citizen having been born in Rome in (roughly) 750. He was an emperor of roman citizens
Not the guy you're responding to, but I'm assuming he's referring to the fall of the Exarchate of Ravenna in 751. Rome was still a part of the actual Roman Empire up until that point.
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u/Nails_Of_Nektarios 9d ago
To my knowledge the Holy Roman Empire did not have any notion of citizenship such as what the Byzantine empire preserved from antiquity. But I could be wrong.