WHAT IS EARLY MODERN GERMANY?
· Holy Roman Empire...of the German Nation --Reich = empire
THE EMPIRE FROM KARL DER GROSSE (786-814) TO 1356
· Charlemagne --Aachen --Hohenstaufen --Swabia
· Rudolf I of Habsburg (1273-91) --Albrecht II (1438-39)
· Golden Bull, 1356:
· Electors (7) = Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne;
Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Brandenburg, King of Bohemia.
THE MAIN PLAYERS
Emperor, princes (Electors and others), free imperial knights, free imperial cities
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
· Dynasties: Hohenzollerns (Brandenburg), Wettiners (Saxony),
Habsburgs (Austria), Wittelsbachs (Bavaria)
· rise of the territorial state: Landtag, German liberty
· Reichstag: (1) electors, (2) princes, (3) free imperial cities
· Maximilian I (1493-1519) Burgundy, Netherlands, Franche Comté
· Reichsreform = imperial reform: Frankfurt Reichstag (1486)
Worms Reichstag (1495):
· Reichskammergericht (1495) = imperial supreme court vs. Reichshofrat (1498) = imperial aulic council
· Augsburg Reichstag (1500): Reichsregiment = imperial regency council
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