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Free Imperial Cities: Rise and Decline (12th–17th centuries)

Free Imperial Cities: Rise and Decline (12th–17th centuries)

  1. Barbarossa privileges and urban autonomy grows

    Labels: Frederick I, Imperial towns

  2. Nuremberg receives Great Letter of Freedom

    Labels: Frederick II, Nuremberg

  5. Esslingen League of Cities founded in southern Germany

    Labels: Esslingen League, Southern Germany

  7. Golden Bull elevates Nuremberg’s imperial role

    Labels: Golden Bull, Nuremberg

  9. Imperial cities’ Reichstag representation recognized

    Labels: Imperial Diet, Free cities

  10. Imperial Reform: Ewiger Landfriede proclaimed

    Labels: Ewiger Landfriede, Reichstag of

  11. Reichsmatrikel lists imperial cities’ contributions

    Labels: Reichsmatrikel, Imperial estates

  12. Diet of Speyer temporarily suspends Worms enforcement

    Labels: Diet of, Speyer

  13. Augsburg Confession presented at imperial Diet

    Labels: Augsburg Confession, Imperial Diet

  14. Peace of Augsburg formalizes confessional coexistence

    Labels: Peace of, Augsburg

  15. Peace of Westphalia confirms cities as Reichstag college

    Labels: Peace of, Reichstag college

  16. Décapole disbanded amid French expansion in Alsace

    Labels: D capole, French expansion