CONTE OF ROME - IDENTITY
CONTE OF ROME
The imperial count enrolled and belonging to the Council of Princes cast his vote collectively with the other members. This right became, unless imperial revocation, hereditary. However, an imperial count could also be admitted to the college in a personal capacity, that is, without having the right to inherit the office, even in the absence of sovereign fiefdoms, but only for personal merits towards the Empire. For hereditary reasons, families holding fiefdoms and having the right to vote themselves could be admitted to the college. A count who was not an imperial count had only a secondary or mediated fiefdom and was subject to a prince or a duke, therefore without effective sovereignty.
Therefore,
historically in Republican Rome, the "Count" indicated the one who
accompanied the magistrates in charge of the government of the province, to
assist and advise them and, later, he was the title of public officials with
various functions, from the direction of important central offices of the
Empire to the government of the provinces. For example, a Count was also
identified as a military commander oriented to defend his county.
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