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 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…

Diet of 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 ...

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.

The Diet of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire that held in the German city of Augsburg. Both an imperial city and the residence of the Augsburg prince-bishops, the city hosted the Estates in many such sessions from the 10th century.

Source. Augsburg, November 19, 1530. We, Charles V, […] announce and make known to all the following. At Our first Imperial Diet, held at Worms [1521], before We departed from the Holy Roman Empire in order to preserve our kingdom and land from ongoing wars and feuds, as many of you know, We were obliged to establish, with the advice, will, and consent of Ours and the Empire’s electors ...

[Introductory note: The Imperial Diet of Augsburg in 1530 was the greatest Imperial assembly between the Diet of Worms in 1495 and the peace conferences of Westphalia in 1648. Charles V (r. 1520-1556), now a papally crowned emperor, returned to the Empire to settle the schism through negotiation with the Estates.

2018年1月4日 · Emperor Charles V had called for a Diet of all the German States in Augsburg on April 8, 1530. With spring and the opening of the Alps, Charles began his travels to Germany from Italy. He arrived at Innspruck in May. Here the counselor Gattinara, who had encouraged Charles to avoid using the sword against Protestantism, sickened and died.

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.

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.