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This study discusses the ideas of empire by Engelbert of Admont (✝1331), whose tract ‘De ortu et fine Imperii Romani’ (1312-13) reveals important features of the language of justification of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 14th century. It concentrates on how Engelbert explained and justified the origin and development of the Roman imperial rule, as whose heir he understood the contemporary German empire. It also discusses how he defended the Holy Roman Empire against various sorts of scepticism and criticism and compromised its claim of the unlimited universal rule over the world and its limited (even declining) political influences in reality. By way of this discussion this study ultimately indicates the unique features of the later medieval imperialist imaginations.