22 déc. 1555 - Peace of Augsburg 1555

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Cuius regio, eius religio ("whose realm, his religion")


Peace of Augsburg (1555), whereby each prince (duke, elector, margrave, count, etc) in the Empire could decide whether his subjects would be Lutheran or Catholic, without the Pope, the Emperor, or any other outside power being able to interfere. It was obviously too much to ask that individual subjects in the Empire could choose their own religion. Dissenting individuals were, instead, required to migrate to regions practicing their preferred religion

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