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The Diet of Augsburg in 1555 accorded them law-enforcement powers, including the right to carry out the decisions of the Reichskammergericht, or imperial chamber. Especially in western and southern Germany, the circles provided a measure of needed regional political cohesion during the great religious and political…
The diets of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in the German city of Augsburg. Both an Imperial City and the residence of the Augsburg prince-bishops , the town had hosted the Estates in many such sessions since the 10th century.
Augsburg Confession, the 28 articles that constitute the basic confession of the Lutheran churches. The Augsburg Confession was presented June 25, 1530, in German and Latin at the Diet of Augsburg to the emperor Charles V by seven Lutheran princes and two imperial free cities.
Peace of Augsburg, first permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany, promulgated on September 25, 1555, by the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire assembled earlier that year at Augsburg.
The Diet of the Holy Roman Empire was an assembly of princes and nobles who convened to decide important matters of state and religion. In 1530, as the Protestant Reformation gathered force in Germany, Emperor Charles V, a determined defender of the Catholic Church, summoned the Diet to meet at Augsburg and invited Protestants to present a ...
The Augsburg Confession is the affirmation of faith of the Lutheran Church written by Philip Melanchthon (l. 1497-1560) and presented at the Diet of Augsburg in June 1530.
The diets of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in the German city of Augsburg. Both an Imperial City and the residence of the Augsburg prince-bishops, the town had hosted the Estates in many such sessions since the 10th century.
The issues at stake in the religious schism were officially defined at the Diet of Augsburg (1530), the greatest Imperial assembly between 1495 and 1648. Charles V, recently crowned emperor by Pope Paul II, had returned to the Empire to settle, as he proposed, the schism through negotiations with the estates.
The Diet of Augsburg (1555) is widely viewed as the turning point between the tumultuous age of the Protestant Reformation in the German lands and the subsequent era of confessional formation and negotiation.
AUGSBURG, RELIGIOUS PEACE OF (1555). Enacted by the imperial diet (the general assembly of the Estates of the Holy Roman Empire) at Augsburg in 1555, the Religious Peace was the most significant law created in the Holy Roman Empire between the Golden Bull of 1356 and the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. These three laws formed the empire's ...