Reich register
The imperial registers , also army registers , were a register of the imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire , in which the troops to be provided for the imperial army were recorded in exact numbers and / or the financial contributions for the maintenance of the army (the so-called Roman month ). The entry in the register was often viewed as an important indicator of the imperial immediacy of an imperial estate, which is not always undisputed . The importance of the register for historical research is that it contains all imperial estates. However, they also contain obvious errors.
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For the first time, the troops to be provided for an imperial army were listed at the Reichstag in Nuremberg in 1422 . The first Empire circles that were created at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500, these contingents were as Circle troops assigned. With the creation of four further imperial districts in 1512, the Austrian hereditary lands and the electoral principalities were also included in the district constitution. The "always newest matriculation" set up on the Worms Reichstag in 1521 determined the simple imperial contingent, the "Simplum", with 4,202 horsemen and 20,063 foot servants , later simplified to 4,000 or 20,000 men. The registers of the Reich were renewed due to the Turkish aid in 1532 and based on the resolutions of the Nuremberg Execution Day in 1663. The Reichsheeresconstitution ("Reichsdefensionalordnung") of 1681 then finally determined the composition of the Reichsheer.
literature
- Reichs-Matrickel. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, Col. 114–158.
