English: Imperial coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor, with the coats of arms of the seven prince-electors: Cologne, Mainz, Trier, Bohemia, Palatinate, Brandenburg, Saxony. Title page of a 1545 armorial printed in Frankfurt. Imperial coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor, with the coats of arms of the seven prince-electors: Cologne, Mainz, Trier, Bohemia, Palatinate, Brandenburg, Saxony. The shield at base (Barry of ten sable and or, over all a crown of rue (rautenkranz/crancelin) in bend vert) was that of w:Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (c.1284-1356) (Sachsen-Wittenberg), a member of the House of Ascania, was Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg from 1298 until his death. By the Golden Bull of 1356 he was acknowledged as Elector of Saxony and Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1308 the "Seven Prince Electors" electing Henry, Count of Luxembourg as Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor at Frankfurt on 27 November 1308 were (left to right in drawing):

• 1: w:Heinrich II of Virneburg, Archbishop of Cologne
• 2: w:Peter of Aspelt (aka Peter von Aspelt/Aichspelt, Peter von Basel, Peter von Mainz) w:Archbishop of Mainz
• 3: w:Baldwin of Luxembourg (Balduin von Luxemburg) Archbishop-Elector of Trier
• 4: w:Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria, called "the Stammerer" (German: Rudolf der Stammler; 4 October 1274 – 12 August 1319), a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Upper Bavaria and w:Count Palatine of the Rhine.
• 5: w:Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (c.1284-1356) (Sachsen-Wittenberg), a member of the House of Ascania, was Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg from 1298 until his death. By the Golden Bull of 1356 he was acknowledged as Elector of Saxony and Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 6: w:Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal "Waldemar the Great" (c.1280-1319), a member of the House of Ascania, was Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal from 1308 until his death.
• 7: King w:Henry of Bohemia "Henry of Gorizia" (c.1265-1335), a member of the House of Gorizia, was Duke of Carinthia and Landgrave of Carniola (as Henry VI) and Count of Tyrol from 1295 until his death, as well as King of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia and titular King of Poland in 1306 and again from 1307 until 1310.