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The members of the Diet complained and, after 1582, it became the rule that such new princes and counts would not of right have a seat at the Diet. Furthermore, in 1653 the Electoral Capitulation included strict rules on the process by which the Emperor could create new states of the Empire.
1803: HRE Prince 1806: To Bavaria: Baden: Margraviate Swab the 4 below: c. 960 1190: Partitioned into Baden-Baden and Baden-Hachberg 1771: Reunited by Baden-Durlach 1803: HRE Elector 1806: Joined Confederation of the Rhine as a Grand Duchy Baden-Baden: Margraviate Swab PR 1190: Partitioned from Baden 1291: Partitioned into itself, Baden ...
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 ...
The "Imperial Circle" column shows to which circle (Reichskreis) the state belonged; the "Imperial Diet" column shows where the state was represented in the Imperial Diet or "Bench" (Reichstag). An explanation of these columns is shown in the main article for this topic, linked here.
Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Germany (complete list, complete list) –; Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105), King (1053–1087); Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1111–1125), King (1099–1125)
The election of Matthias as Roman-German Emperor by the prince electors in 1612 depicted on a contemporary engraving. The election of a Holy Roman Emperor was generally a two-stage process whereby the King of the Romans was elected by a small body of the greatest princes of the realm, the prince-electors.
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