16th Century in Germany

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Black Company, Archbishopric of Bremen, Italian War of 1542-1546, Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, Early Modern history of Germany, Trier witch trials, First Diet of Speyer, Diet of Regensburg, Augsburg Interim, Protestation at Speyer, Peace of Augsburg, Battle of M hlberg, Diet of Worms, Martyrs' Synod, Second Diet of Speyer, Synod of Homberg, Bundschuh movement, Wiesensteig witch trial, Abecedarian, Peace of Passau, Capitulation of Wittenberg, Battle of Sievershausen, Leipzig Interim. Excerpt: The Archdiocese of Bremen (also Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, German: , not to be confused with the modern Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994) was a historical Roman Catholic diocese (787-1566/1648) and formed from 1180 to 1648 an ecclesiastical state (continued under other names until 1823), named Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (German: ) within the Holy Roman Empire. The prince-archbishopric consisted of about a third of the diocesan territory. The city of Bremen was de facto (since 1186) and de jure (since 1646) no part of the prince-archbishopric but belonged to the archdiocese. Most of the prince-archbishopric lay rather in the area to the north of the city of Bremen, between the Weser and Elbe rivers. Even more confusingly, parts of the prince-archbishopric belonged in religious respect to the neighbouring diocese of Verden, making up 10% of its diocesan territory. Verden (German pronunciation: ) itself had a double identity too - as the diocese of Verden (German: ) and the Prince-Bishopric of Verden (German: ). Each prince-bishopric had the status of an Imperial Estate (German: , plural: ), each of which were represented in the Diet (German: ) of the Holy Roman Empire. From 1500 on the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen belonged to the Saxon Circle (later the Lower Saxon Circle; Ger...