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Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protest the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
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Reformation
16th-century movement in Western Christianity
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Diet of Speyer (1529)
Meeting of the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire
The Diet of Speyer or the Diet of Spires was a Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in 1529 in the Imperial City of Speyer. The Diet condemned the results of the Diet of Speyer of 1526 and prohibited future reformation. It resulted in the Protestation at Speyer.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fürst
German princely title
Fürst is a German word for a ruler as well as a princely title. Fürsten were, starting in the Middle Ages, members of the highest nobility who ruled over states of the Holy Roman Empire and later its former territories, below the ruling Kaiser (emperor) or König (king).Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Free imperial city
Cities of the Holy Roman Empire with self-rule and representation in the Imperial Diet
In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities, briefly worded free imperial city, was used from the 15th century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Protestation at Speyer
1529 petition of the Holy Roman Empire against an imperial ban of Martin Luther
On 19 April 1529, six princes and representatives of 14 Imperial Free Cities petitioned the Imperial Diet at Speyer against an imperial ban of Martin Luther, as well as the proscription of his works and teachings, and called for the unhindered spread of the evangelical faith.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Diet of Worms
Imperial assembly of the Holy Roman Empire (1521)
The Diet of Worms of 1521 was an imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire called by Emperor Charles V and conducted in the Imperial Free City of Worms. Martin Luther was summoned to the diet in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a Papal bull of Pope Leo X. In…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)