Declaratio Ferdinandea
The Declaratio Ferdinandea (Latin for Ferdinandine Declaration ) is a declaration by the Roman-German King Ferdinand I , which secured freedom of belief for evangelical knights and cities in spiritual territories in the course of the Peace of Augsburg .
prehistory
At the Augsburg Diet of 1555, King Ferdinand I, on behalf of his brother Emperor Charles V, led the negotiations between Protestants and Catholics on a general religious peace. After the devastation of the Schmalkaldic War , the Margrave and the Prince's War , there was a great longing for peace in the Holy Roman Empire . Nonetheless, the negotiations on religious peace were very difficult and slow.
The hardest and longest struggle was for the clergy's reservation , which stipulated that clerical principalities were not allowed to convert to Protestantism. This represented a disadvantage for the Protestants in the empire and they threatened several times to let the negotiations fail because of it. Ferdinand tried in this situation their approval by the September 24, 1555 compared to the electors of the Electorate of Saxony and Kurmainz given, but kept secret until 1575 declaration - to achieve - the declaratio ferdinandei.
Regulations
In the written declaration, Ferdinand guaranteed the local Protestant knights and towns that they would retain their evangelical creed, even if they were in ecclesiastical Catholic territory. This represented an important exception to the principle of cuius regio, eius religio , according to which a clerical ruler would have had the opportunity to force his subjects to adopt the Catholic faith.
effect
The declaration was not included in the official Reichs Farewell and repeatedly caused conflicts in the years that followed. The Catholic side considered them to be invalid under imperial law, since according to Section 28 of the Augsburg Religious Peace any change to the treaty was prohibited by additional declarations.
Web links
- Declaratio Ferdinandea on historicum.net with source (accessed on July 24, 2008, 5:48 pm)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Johannes Arndt : The Thirty Years War 1618–1648 . Reclam non-fiction book, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018642-8 . (P. 32)