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Imperial Free City of Aachen

2024-11-11T00:01:00Z

Karl V:

<gallery caption="Coat of Arms" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Aachen_GW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Great Roll of Arms, containing the coats of arms of the German emperors, the European royal and princely houses, the popes and cardinals, bishops and abbots up to the living representatives at the time of the reign of Emperor Rudolf II and Pope Gregory XIII'', 1583
Aachen_SW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coats of arms as portrayed in the ''Siebmachers Wappenbuch'' by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, 1605
Aachen_JWT.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms'', 1729
</gallery>

Imperial Diet

2024-11-10T19:48:49Z

Karl V:

Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire 
The Imperial Diet (''Reichstag'') was the forum where the Imperial Estates and the Emperor could discuss and negotiate issues from the early modern period of the Empire onwards ; what it enacted was Imperial Law. The Imperial Estates (''Reichsstände'') were the territories that enjoyed imperial immediacy (''Reichsunmittelbarkeit''), that is the Emperor was their immediate and direct feudal lord, since the territories they held were formally feudal fiefs. Alongside this immediacy, the Imperial Estates had to share the burden of the Empire and were to pay taxes to fund the various bodies whose responsability was to maintain the common legal framework that characterised the social and political order of the Empire ; these two criteria thus determined whether or not a territory formally attached to the Empire could enjoy the right to participate and vote in the Diet.


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Electors" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Mainz.svg|1. Archbishop of Mainz Arch-Chancellor of Germany Head of ''Corpus Catholicorum''
Trier.svg|2. Archbishop of Trier Arch-Chancellor of Gaul
Cologne.svg|3. Archbishop of Cologne Arch-Chancellor of Italy
</gallery>
<gallery mode="nolines" caption="" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Bohemia.svg|4. King of Bohemia Arch-Butler of the Empire
Wittelsbach Pfalz.svg|5. Count Palatine of the Rhine Arch-Steward of the Empire Imperial Vicar for Frankish territories
Wettin Sachsen.svg|6. Duke of Saxony Arch-Marshal of the Empire Imperial Vicar for Saxon territories Head of ''Corpus Evangelicorum''
Brandenburg.svg|7. Margrave of Brandenburg Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire
Braunschweig-Luneburg.svg|8. Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Arch-Treasurer of the Empire
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Princes" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Habsburg Austria.svg|1. Archduke of Austria
Philip I Castile.svg|2. Duke of Burgundy
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Ecclesiastical Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Salzburg.svg|3. Archbishop of Salzburg
Besançon.svg|4. Archbishop of Besançon
Grand Master Teutonic Order.svg|5. Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Bamberg.svg|6. Bishop of Bamberg
Wurzburg.svg|7. Bishop of Würzburg
Worms.svg|8. Bishop of Worms
Eichstätt.svg|9. Bishop of Eichstätt
Speyer.svg|10. Bishop of Speyer
Strassburg.svg|11. Bishop of Strassburg
Constance.svg|12. Bishop of Constance
Augsburg.svg|13. Bishop of Augsburg
Hildesheim.svg|14. Bishop of Hildesheim
Paderborn.svg|15. Bishop of Paderborn
Freising.svg|16. Bishop of Freising
Regensburg Bishop.svg|17. Bishop of Regensburg
Passau.svg|18. Bishop of Passau
Trient.svg|19. Bishop of Trent
Brixen.svg|20. Bishop of Brixen
Basel.svg|21. Bishop of Basel
Münster.svg|22. Bishop of Münster
Osnabruck.svg|23. Bishop of Osnabrück
Liege.svg|24. Bishop of Liège
Lübeck Bishop.svg|25. Bishop of Lübeck
Chur Zurich.svg|26. Bishop of Chur
Fulda.svg|27. Bishop of Fulda
Kempten.svg|28. Abbot of Kempten
Ellwangen.svg|29. Provost of Ellwangen
Knight Hospitallers.svg|30. Grand Master of the Order of St. John
Berchtesgaden.svg|31. Prior of Berchtesgaden
Wissembourg.svg|32. Provost of Weissenburg
Prüm.svg|33. Abbot of Prüm
Stavelot.svg|34. Abbot of Stablo
Corvey.svg|35. Abbot of Corvey
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Secular Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Wittelsbach.svg|1. Duke of Bavaria
Magdeburg.svg|2. Duke of Magdeburg
Pfalz-Simmern.svg|3. Count Palatine of Lautern
Pfalz Simmern.svg|4. Count Palatine of Simmern
Pfalz-Neuburg.svg|5. Count Palatine of Neuburg
Bremen.svg|6. Duke of Bremen
Pfalz Sweden.svg|7. Duke of Zweibrücken
Pfalz-Veldenz.svg|8. Count Palatine of Veldenz
Saxe-Weimar.svg|9. Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach.svg|10. Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Saxe-Coburg.svg|11. Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.svg|12. Duke of Saxe-Gotha
Saxe-Altenburg.svg|13. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Brandenburg-Ansbach.svg|14. Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Brandenburg-Kulmbach.svg|15. Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Ernst II Braunschweig-Luneburg.svg|16. Duke of Brunswick-Celle
Braunschweig Luneburg.svg|17. Duke of Brunswick-Kalenberg
Calenberg-Grubenhagen.svg|18. Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.svg|19. Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Halberstadt.svg|20. Prince of Halberstadt
Pomerania Ancient.svg|21. Duke of Farther Pomerania 
Pomerania Ancient.svg|22. Duke of Upper Pomerania 
Johann IV Mecklenburg-Schwerin.svg|23. Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Guscerov.svg|24. Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Württemberg Ancient.svg|25. Duke of Württemberg
Hesse-Kassel.svg|26. Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Hesse-Darmstadt.svg|27. Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Baden.svg|28. Margrave of Baden-Baden
Baden-Durlach.svg|29. Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Verden.svg|30. Prince of Verden
Bernhard III Baden.svg|31. Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
Oldenburg.svg|32. Duke of Holstein
Saxe-Lauenberg.svg|33. Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Minden.svg|34. Prince of Minden
Holstein Gottorp.svg|35. Duke of Holstein-Gottorp-Oldenburg
Savoy.svg|36. Duke of Savoy
Leuchtenberg.svg|37. Landgrave of Leuchtenberg
Anhalt 1260.svg|38. Prince of Anhalt
Henneberg.svg|39. Princely Count of Henneberg
Schwerin.svg|40. Prince of Schwerin
Kammin.svg|41. Prince of Kammin
Ratzeburg.svg|42. Prince of Ratzeburg
Hersfeld.svg|43. Prince of Hersfeld
Nomeny.svg|44. Prince of Nomény
Württemberg Waiblingen.svg|45. Prince of Mömpelgard
D'Arenberg Ancient.svg|46. Duke of Arenberg
Hohenzollern-Hechingen.svg|47. Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Lobkowicz.svg|48. Prince of Lobkowitz
Salm.svg|49. Prince of Salm
Dietrichstein.svg|50. Prince of Dietrichstein
Nassau Dillenburg.svg|51. Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
Nassau-Dillenburg.svg|52. Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
Fürsten von Auersperg.svg|53. Prince of Auersperg
Cirksena 1625.svg|54. Prince of East Frisia
Von Furstenberg.svg|55. Prince of Fürstenberg
Seinsheim-Schwarzenberg.svg|56. Prince of Schwarzenberg
Liechtenstein Ancient.svg|57. Prince of Liechtenstein
Thurn-Taxis.svg|58. Prince of Thurn und Taxis
Schwarzburg.svg|59. Prince of Schwarzburg
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Imperial Cities" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
</gallery>



<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Rhenish Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Cologne 1550.svg|[[Imperial Free City of Cologne| Free and Imperial City of Cologne]]
Aachen_JWT.svg|[[Imperial Free City of Aachen | Free and Imperial City of Aachen]]
Free City of Lubeck.svg|[[ Imperial Free City of Lübeck | Free and Imperial City of Lübeck ]]
Free City of Bremen.svg|Free and Imperial City of Bremen
Hamburg.svg|[[ Imperial Free City of Hamburg | Free and Imperial City of Hamburg ]]
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Swabian Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Ulm.svg|Free and Imperial City of Ulm
Schwäbisch_Gmünd.svg|Free and Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd
</gallery>

[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

Quaternion Eagle

2024-11-10T19:37:47Z

Karl V:

Imperial Diet

2024-11-10T19:36:45Z

Karl V:

Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire 
The Imperial Diet (''Reichstag'') was the forum where the Imperial Estates and the Emperor could discuss and negotiate issues from the early modern period of the Empire onwards ; what it enacted was Imperial Law. The Imperial Estates (''Reichsstände'') were the territories that enjoyed imperial immediacy (''Reichsunmittelbarkeit''), that is the Emperor was their immediate and direct feudal lord, since the territories they held were formally feudal fiefs. Alongside this immediacy, the Imperial Estates had to share the burden of the Empire and were to pay taxes to fund the various bodies whose responsability was to maintain the common legal framework that characterised the social and political order of the Empire ; these two criteria thus determined whether or not a territory formally attached to the Empire could enjoy the right to participate and vote in the Diet.


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Electors" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Mainz.svg|1. Archbishop of Mainz Arch-Chancellor of Germany Head of ''Corpus Catholicorum''
Trier.svg|2. Archbishop of Trier Arch-Chancellor of Gaul
Cologne.svg|3. Archbishop of Cologne Arch-Chancellor of Italy
</gallery>
<gallery mode="nolines" caption="" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Bohemia.svg|4. King of Bohemia Arch-Butler of the Empire
Wittelsbach Pfalz.svg|5. Count Palatine of the Rhine Arch-Steward of the Empire Imperial Vicar for Frankish territories
Wettin Sachsen.svg|6. Duke of Saxony Arch-Marshal of the Empire Imperial Vicar for Saxon territories Head of ''Corpus Evangelicorum''
Brandenburg.svg|7. Margrave of Brandenburg Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire
Braunschweig-Luneburg.svg|8. Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Arch-Treasurer of the Empire
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Princes" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Habsburg Austria.svg|1. Archduke of Austria
Philip I Castile.svg|2. Duke of Burgundy
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Ecclesiastical Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Salzburg.svg|3. Archbishop of Salzburg
Besançon.svg|4. Archbishop of Besançon
Grand Master Teutonic Order.svg|5. Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Bamberg.svg|6. Bishop of Bamberg
Wurzburg.svg|7. Bishop of Würzburg
Worms.svg|8. Bishop of Worms
Eichstätt.svg|9. Bishop of Eichstätt
Speyer.svg|10. Bishop of Speyer
Strassburg.svg|11. Bishop of Strassburg
Constance.svg|12. Bishop of Constance
Augsburg.svg|13. Bishop of Augsburg
Hildesheim.svg|14. Bishop of Hildesheim
Paderborn.svg|15. Bishop of Paderborn
Freising.svg|16. Bishop of Freising
Regensburg Bishop.svg|17. Bishop of Regensburg
Passau.svg|18. Bishop of Passau
Trient.svg|19. Bishop of Trent
Brixen.svg|20. Bishop of Brixen
Basel.svg|21. Bishop of Basel
Münster.svg|22. Bishop of Münster
Osnabruck.svg|23. Bishop of Osnabrück
Liege.svg|24. Bishop of Liège
Lübeck Bishop.svg|25. Bishop of Lübeck
Chur Zurich.svg|26. Bishop of Chur
Fulda.svg|27. Bishop of Fulda
Kempten.svg|28. Abbot of Kempten
Ellwangen.svg|29. Provost of Ellwangen
Knight Hospitallers.svg|30. Grand Master of the Order of St. John
Berchtesgaden.svg|31. Prior of Berchtesgaden
Wissembourg.svg|32. Provost of Weissenburg
Prüm.svg|33. Abbot of Prüm
Stavelot.svg|34. Abbot of Stablo
Corvey.svg|35. Abbot of Corvey
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Secular Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Wittelsbach.svg|1. Duke of Bavaria
Magdeburg.svg|2. Duke of Magdeburg
Pfalz-Simmern.svg|3. Count Palatine of Lautern
Pfalz Simmern.svg|4. Count Palatine of Simmern
Pfalz-Neuburg.svg|5. Count Palatine of Neuburg
Bremen.svg|6. Duke of Bremen
Pfalz Sweden.svg|7. Duke of Zweibrücken
Pfalz-Veldenz.svg|8. Count Palatine of Veldenz
Saxe-Weimar.svg|9. Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach.svg|10. Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Saxe-Coburg.svg|11. Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.svg|12. Duke of Saxe-Gotha
Saxe-Altenburg.svg|13. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Brandenburg-Ansbach.svg|14. Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Brandenburg-Kulmbach.svg|15. Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Ernst II Braunschweig-Luneburg.svg|16. Duke of Brunswick-Celle
Braunschweig Luneburg.svg|17. Duke of Brunswick-Kalenberg
Calenberg-Grubenhagen.svg|18. Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.svg|19. Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Halberstadt.svg|20. Prince of Halberstadt
Pomerania Ancient.svg|21. Duke of Farther Pomerania 
Pomerania Ancient.svg|22. Duke of Upper Pomerania 
Johann IV Mecklenburg-Schwerin.svg|23. Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Guscerov.svg|24. Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Württemberg Ancient.svg|25. Duke of Württemberg
Hesse-Kassel.svg|26. Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Hesse-Darmstadt.svg|27. Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Baden.svg|28. Margrave of Baden-Baden
Baden-Durlach.svg|29. Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Verden.svg|30. Prince of Verden
Bernhard III Baden.svg|31. Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
Oldenburg.svg|32. Duke of Holstein
Saxe-Lauenberg.svg|33. Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Minden.svg|34. Prince of Minden
Holstein Gottorp.svg|35. Duke of Holstein-Gottorp-Oldenburg
Savoy.svg|36. Duke of Savoy
Leuchtenberg.svg|37. Landgrave of Leuchtenberg
Anhalt 1260.svg|38. Prince of Anhalt
Henneberg.svg|39. Princely Count of Henneberg
Schwerin.svg|40. Prince of Schwerin
Kammin.svg|41. Prince of Kammin
Ratzeburg.svg|42. Prince of Ratzeburg
Hersfeld.svg|43. Prince of Hersfeld
Nomeny.svg|44. Prince of Nomény
Württemberg Waiblingen.svg|45. Prince of Mömpelgard
D'Arenberg Ancient.svg|46. Duke of Arenberg
Hohenzollern-Hechingen.svg|47. Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Lobkowicz.svg|48. Prince of Lobkowitz
Salm.svg|49. Prince of Salm
Dietrichstein.svg|50. Prince of Dietrichstein
Nassau Dillenburg.svg|51. Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
Nassau-Dillenburg.svg|52. Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
Fürsten von Auersperg.svg|53. Prince of Auersperg
Cirksena 1625.svg|54. Prince of East Frisia
Von Furstenberg.svg|55. Prince of Fürstenberg
Seinsheim-Schwarzenberg.svg|56. Prince of Schwarzenberg
Liechtenstein Ancient.svg|57. Prince of Liechtenstein
Thurn-Taxis.svg|58. Prince of Thurn und Taxis
Schwarzburg.svg|59. Prince of Schwarzburg
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Imperial Cities" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
</gallery>



<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Rhenish Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Cologne 1550.svg|Free and Imperial City of Cologne
Aachen_JWT.svg|Free and Imperial City of Aachen
Free City of Lubeck.svg|Free and Imperial City of Lübeck
Free City of Bremen.svg|Free and Imperial City of Bremen
Hamburg.svg|Free and Imperial City of Hamburg
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Swabian Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Ulm.svg|Free and Imperial City of Ulm
Schwäbisch_Gmünd.svg|Free and Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd
</gallery>

[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

Imperial Diet

2024-11-10T19:21:33Z

Karl V: Added an explanation of the role played by the Imperial Diet

Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire 
The Imperial Diet (''Reichstag'') was the forum where the Imperial Estates and the Emperor could discuss and negotiate issues from the early modern period of the Empire onwards ; what it enacted was Imperial Law. The Imperial Estates (''Reichsstände'') were the territories that enjoyed imperial immediacy (''Reichsunmittelbarkeit''), that is the Emperor was their immediate and direct feudal lord, since the territories they held were formally feudal fiefs. Alongside this immediacy, the Imperial Estates had to share the burden of the Empire and were to pay taxes to fund the various bodies whose responsability was to maintain the common legal framework that characterised the social and political order of the Empire ; these two criteria thus determined whether or not a territory formally attached to the Empire could enjoy the right to participate and vote in the Diet.


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Electors" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Mainz.svg|1. Archbishop of Mainz Arch-Chancellor of Germany Head of ''Corpus Catholicorum''
Trier.svg|2. Archbishop of Trier Arch-Chancellor of Gaul
Cologne.svg|3. Archbishop of Cologne Arch-Chancellor of Italy
</gallery>
<gallery mode="nolines" caption="" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Bohemia.svg|4. King of Bohemia Arch-Butler of the Empire
Wittelsbach Pfalz.svg|5. Count Palatine of the Rhine Arch-Steward of the Empire Imperial Vicar for Frankish territories
Wettin Sachsen.svg|6. Duke of Saxony Arch-Marshal of the Empire Imperial Vicar for Saxon territories Head of ''Corpus Evangelicorum''
Brandenburg.svg|7. Margrave of Brandenburg Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire
Braunschweig-Luneburg.svg|8. Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Arch-Treasurer of the Empire
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="College of Princes" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Habsburg Austria.svg|1. Archduke of Austria
Philip I Castile.svg|2. Duke of Burgundy
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Ecclesiastical Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Salzburg.svg|3. Archbishop of Salzburg
Besançon.svg|4. Archbishop of Besançon
Grand Master Teutonic Order.svg|5. Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Bamberg.svg|6. Bishop of Bamberg
Wurzburg.svg|7. Bishop of Würzburg
Worms.svg|8. Bishop of Worms
Eichstätt.svg|9. Bishop of Eichstätt
Speyer.svg|10. Bishop of Speyer
Strassburg.svg|11. Bishop of Strassburg
Constance.svg|12. Bishop of Constance
Augsburg.svg|13. Bishop of Augsburg
Hildesheim.svg|14. Bishop of Hildesheim
Paderborn.svg|15. Bishop of Paderborn
Freising.svg|16. Bishop of Freising
Regensburg Bishop.svg|17. Bishop of Regensburg
Passau.svg|18. Bishop of Passau
Trient.svg|19. Bishop of Trent
Brixen.svg|20. Bishop of Brixen
Basel.svg|21. Bishop of Basel
Münster.svg|22. Bishop of Münster
Osnabruck.svg|23. Bishop of Osnabrück
Liege.svg|24. Bishop of Liège
Lübeck Bishop.svg|25. Bishop of Lübeck
Chur Zurich.svg|26. Bishop of Chur
Fulda.svg|27. Bishop of Fulda
Kempten.svg|28. Abbot of Kempten
Ellwangen.svg|29. Provost of Ellwangen
Knight Hospitallers.svg|30. Grand Master of the Order of St. John
Berchtesgaden.svg|31. Prior of Berchtesgaden
Wissembourg.svg|32. Provost of Weissenburg
Prüm.svg|33. Abbot of Prüm
Stavelot.svg|34. Abbot of Stablo
Corvey.svg|35. Abbot of Corvey
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

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Wittelsbach.svg|1. Duke of Bavaria
Magdeburg.svg|2. Duke of Magdeburg
Pfalz-Simmern.svg|3. Count Palatine of Lautern
Pfalz Simmern.svg|4. Count Palatine of Simmern
Pfalz-Neuburg.svg|5. Count Palatine of Neuburg
Bremen.svg|6. Duke of Bremen
Pfalz Sweden.svg|7. Duke of Zweibrücken
Pfalz-Veldenz.svg|8. Count Palatine of Veldenz
Saxe-Weimar.svg|9. Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach.svg|10. Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Saxe-Coburg.svg|11. Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.svg|12. Duke of Saxe-Gotha
Saxe-Altenburg.svg|13. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Brandenburg-Ansbach.svg|14. Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Brandenburg-Kulmbach.svg|15. Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Ernst II Braunschweig-Luneburg.svg|16. Duke of Brunswick-Celle
Braunschweig Luneburg.svg|17. Duke of Brunswick-Kalenberg
Calenberg-Grubenhagen.svg|18. Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.svg|19. Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Halberstadt.svg|20. Prince of Halberstadt
Pomerania Ancient.svg|21. Duke of Farther Pomerania 
Pomerania Ancient.svg|22. Duke of Upper Pomerania 
Johann IV Mecklenburg-Schwerin.svg|23. Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Guscerov.svg|24. Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Württemberg Ancient.svg|25. Duke of Württemberg
Hesse-Kassel.svg|26. Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Hesse-Darmstadt.svg|27. Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Baden.svg|28. Margrave of Baden-Baden
Baden-Durlach.svg|29. Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Verden.svg|30. Prince of Verden
Bernhard III Baden.svg|31. Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
Oldenburg.svg|32. Duke of Holstein
Saxe-Lauenberg.svg|33. Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Minden.svg|34. Prince of Minden
Holstein Gottorp.svg|35. Duke of Holstein-Gottorp-Oldenburg
Savoy.svg|36. Duke of Savoy
Leuchtenberg.svg|37. Landgrave of Leuchtenberg
Anhalt 1260.svg|38. Prince of Anhalt
Henneberg.svg|39. Princely Count of Henneberg
Schwerin.svg|40. Prince of Schwerin
Kammin.svg|41. Prince of Kammin
Ratzeburg.svg|42. Prince of Ratzeburg
Hersfeld.svg|43. Prince of Hersfeld
Nomeny.svg|44. Prince of Nomény
Württemberg Waiblingen.svg|45. Prince of Mömpelgard
D'Arenberg Ancient.svg|46. Duke of Arenberg
Hohenzollern-Hechingen.svg|47. Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Lobkowicz.svg|48. Prince of Lobkowitz
Salm.svg|49. Prince of Salm
Dietrichstein.svg|50. Prince of Dietrichstein
Nassau Dillenburg.svg|51. Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
Nassau-Dillenburg.svg|52. Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
Fürsten von Auersperg.svg|53. Prince of Auersperg
Cirksena 1625.svg|54. Prince of East Frisia
Von Furstenberg.svg|55. Prince of Fürstenberg
Seinsheim-Schwarzenberg.svg|56. Prince of Schwarzenberg
Liechtenstein Ancient.svg|57. Prince of Liechtenstein
Thurn-Taxis.svg|58. Prince of Thurn und Taxis
Schwarzburg.svg|59. Prince of Schwarzburg
</gallery>


[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

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<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Rhenish Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Cologne 1550.svg|Free and Imperial City of Cologne
Aachen_JWT.svg|Free and Imperial City of Aachen
Free City of Lubeck.svg|Free and Imperial City of Lübeck
Free City of Bremen.svg|Free and Imperial City of Bremen
Hamburg.svg|Free and Imperial City of Hamburg
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[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Swabian Bench" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Ulm.svg|Free and Imperial City of Ulm
Schwäbisch_Gmünd.svg|Free and Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd
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[[#Electors|College of Electors]] | [[#Princes|College of Princes]] | [[#Ecclesiastical|Ecclesiastical Bench]] | [[#Secular|Secular Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]] | [[#College of Imperial Cities |College of Imperial Cities]] | [[#Rhenish Bench|Rhenish Bench]] | [[#Swabian Bench|Swabian Bench]]

Quaternion Eagle

2023-12-07T21:38:19Z

Karl V:

File:Swabia Quaternion Eagle.svg

2023-12-07T21:32:16Z

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Duchy of Swabia as depicted by Hans Burgkmair in his Quaternion Eagle of 1510

File:Swabia Quaternion Eagle.svg

2023-12-07T21:27:54Z

Karl V: Duchy of Swabia as depicted by Hans Burgkmair in his Quaternion Eagle of 1510

Duchy of Swabia as depicted by Hans Burgkmair in his Quaternion Eagle of 1510

Quaternion Eagle

2023-12-07T21:18:58Z

Karl V:

Quaternion Eagle

2023-12-07T21:11:04Z

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Quaternion Eagle

2023-12-07T21:06:57Z

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Quaternion Eagle

2023-12-07T21:04:30Z

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Main Page

2023-12-07T11:30:24Z

Karl V:

Talk:Imperial Diet

2023-12-04T23:21:21Z

Karl V:

Hi, since the Imperial Diet is composed of the Imperial Estates, which have the right to vote, should not the components be referred to as the state rather than the title, ''e. g.'' ''Archbishopric of Trier'' or preferably ''Electorate of Trier'', instead of ''Archbishop of Trier'' ? Thank you very much for your cooperation ! — Karl V

Talk:Imperial Diet

2023-12-04T23:20:13Z

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Imperial Diet

2023-08-26T20:56:05Z

Karl V:

Imperial Diet

2023-08-20T07:49:05Z

Karl V:

File:Schwäbisch Gmünd.svg

2023-08-20T07:47:20Z

Karl V: Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd Description : Wappenbeschreibung : In Rot ein aufgerichtetes silbernes Einhorn Blasonnement : De gueules à la licorne saillante d'argent Blazon : Gules a unicorn salient Argent

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd

Description :
Wappenbeschreibung : In Rot ein aufgerichtetes silbernes Einhorn
Blasonnement : De gueules à la licorne saillante d'argent
Blazon : Gules a unicorn salient Argent

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-19T17:03:20Z

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Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

Imperial Diet

2023-08-19T17:02:22Z

Karl V:

Imperial Diet

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Imperial Free City of Aachen

2023-08-18T10:18:04Z

Karl V:

<gallery caption="Coat of Arms" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Aachen_GW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Great Roll of Arms, containing the coats of arms of the German emperors, the European royal and princely houses, the popes and cardinals, bishops and abbots up to the living representatives at the time of the reign of Emperor Rudolf II and Pope Gregory XIII'', 1583
Aachen_SW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coats of arms as portrayed in the "Siebmachers Wappenbuch" by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, 1605
Aachen_JWT.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms'', 1729
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Imperial Free City of Aachen

2023-08-18T10:08:10Z

Karl V:

<gallery caption="Coat of Arms" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
Aachen_GW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Great Roll of Arms, containing the coats of arms of the German emperors, the European royal and princely houses, the popes and cardinals, bishops and abbots up to the living representatives at the time of the reign of Emperor Rudolf II and Pope Gregory XIII'', 1583
Aachen_JWT.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms'', 1729
Aachen_SW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coats of arms as portrayed in the "Siebmachers Wappenbuch" by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, 1605
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Imperial Free City of Aachen

2023-08-18T09:50:59Z

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 The Coat of arms of the Imperial Free City of Aachen varies according to the historical source

Aachen_GW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Great Roll of Arms, containing the coats of arms of the German emperors, the European royal and princely houses, the popes and cardinals, bishops and abbots up to the living representatives at the time of the reign of Emperor Rudolf II and Pope Gregory XIII'', 1583
Aachen_JWT.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coat of arms as portrayed in the ''Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms'', 1729
Aachen_SW.svg|Imperial Free City of Aachen Coats of arms as portrayed in the "Siebmachers Wappenbuch" by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, 1605
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Germania

2023-08-18T09:41:13Z

Karl V:

Germania

2023-08-18T09:36:56Z

Karl V:

Germania

2023-08-18T09:35:39Z

Karl V:

File:Aachen GW.svg

2023-08-18T09:30:09Z

Karl V: Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the "Großes Wappenbuch, enthaltend die Wappen der deutschen Kaiser, der europäischen Königs- und Fürstenhäuser, der Päpste und Kardinäle, Bischöfe und Äbte bis zu den lebenden R...

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the "Großes Wappenbuch, enthaltend die Wappen der deutschen Kaiser, der europäischen Königs- und Fürstenhäuser, der Päpste und Kardinäle, Bischöfe und Äbte bis zu den lebenden Repräsentanten zur Zeit der Regentschaft Kaiser Rudolfs II. und Papst Gregors XIII", 1583

File:Aachen SW.svg

2023-08-18T09:22:16Z

Karl V: Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Siebmachers Wappenbuch by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, 1605

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Siebmachers Wappenbuch by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, 1605

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-18T09:12:25Z

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Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-18T09:10:02Z

Karl V: Karl V uploaded a new version of File:Aachen JWT.svg

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-18T08:55:27Z

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Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-17T10:26:18Z

Karl V: Karl V uploaded a new version of File:Aachen JWT.svg

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-17T10:25:58Z

Karl V: Karl V uploaded a new version of File:Aachen JWT.svg

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

File:Aachen JWT.svg

2023-08-17T10:17:15Z

Karl V: Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729

Coat of arms of the Free and Imperial City of Aachen according to the Johann Wolfgang Trier's Introduction to the Art of Coat of Arms, 1729