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Several states had no seats in the Empire, while some officials (such as the Hereditary Usher) were non-voting members; neither qualified as Imperial States. Imperial Free City (freie Reichsstadt): a city formally responsible to the emperor only – as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to the territory of one of ...
1606: Formed: Peter Melander made HRE Knight, assumed the name "Holzappel" 1641: HRE Count; 1642: Acquired Lülsdorf as fief of Palatinate-Neuburg; 1643: Purchased Esterau and Isselbach from Nassau-Hadamar; Bench of Counts of Westphalia; 1656: Acquired Nassau-Schaumburg; 1707: To Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym; 1806: To Nassau
For example, the estates of the Imperial Knights were formally mediatized in 1806, having de facto been seized by the great territorial states in 1803 in the so-called Rittersturm. "Secularization" was the abolition of the temporal power of an ecclesiastical ruler such as a bishop or an abbot and the annexation of the secularized territory to a ...
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Imperial Reform (Latin: Reformatio imperii, German: Reichsreform) is the name given to repeated attempts in the 15th and 16th centuries to adapt the structure and the constitutional order (Verfassungsordnung) of the Holy Roman Empire to the requirements of the early modern state and to give it a unified government under either the Imperial Estates or the emperor's supremacy.
Free Imperial City Swab SW 1276: Free Imperial City 1806: To Bavaria: Austria: 1156: Duchy 1453: Archduchy Aust EC 833: Established, part of the Duchy of Bavaria Margraviate 976: Separated from Bavaria 1156: HRE Duke 1192: Acquired Styria 1379: Partitioned into itself (Albertine Line) and Inner Austria (Leopoldine Line) 1453: HRE Archduke
Human rights education (HRE) is the learning process that seeks to build knowledge, values, and proficiency in the rights that each person is entitled to. This education teaches students to examine their own experiences from a point of view that enables them to integrate these concepts into their values.
1032: HRE Prince of the Empire 1579: Allied to the Swiss Confederation 1792: Left-bank territories annexed to the Rauracian Republic 1803: Right-bank territories secularised and ceded to Baden: Basel: Imperial City n/a n/a 1392: Acquired semi-independence; Free Imperial City 1501: Joined the Swiss Confederation 1648: Left the Empire as part of ...