Hague peasant uprising

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The Hague Peasant Uprising was a rebellion of the peasants in the Bavarian-dominated imperial county of Haag against the Bavarian duke in 1596.

In 1567, after the death of the last Fraunberger, Count Ladislaus von Fraunberg-Haag, the Bavarian dukes were enfeoffed with the county of Haag by the Kaiser. The removal of the old rights and tax increases led to two farmers' meetings at the beginning of 1596, in which almost all 1500 farmers in the country took part. The farmers selected a committee of eight ensign leaders and demanded the old Grafschafter rights. Two ducal officials are said to have been beaten up by the farmers.

Although the peasant meetings that took place corresponded to old customs, the ruling Duke Maximilian I viewed them as a rebellion and demanded the execution of the rebellious ringleaders . A ducal commission with 150 armed men quickly stifled the riot. Maximilian's father, Duke Wilhelm V , managed to defuse the situation and got the "uprising" to be judicially investigated. The leaders were ultimately sentenced to forced labor in Munich. The two main leaders who were originally sentenced to death had two fingers from their left hand cut off.

Overall, the ducal reaction to the farmers' assemblies in Haag was a preliminary step on the way to the factual prohibition of these traditional assembly rights with the Bavarian land law of 1616. Until 1804, Haag remained a "free imperial county not integrated into the Bavarian Kurlanden" until 1804, although it was dominated by Bavaria. It was not until the mediatization in 1804 that the county of Haag finally came to Bavaria.

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  • Renate Blickle: The Hague Peasants' Assembly 1596 , in: Peter Blickle (ed.): Bauer, Reich and Reformation. Festschrift for Günther Franz on his 80th birthday on May 23, 1982, Stuttgart, 1982.
  • Rudolf Münch: Ringleaders and rebels: Report on the peasant uprising of 1596 in the county of Haag , history association Reichsgrafschaft Haag, 1983.