Cure (Holy Roman Empire)

Coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire
Above the coat of arms of the electors

In the Holy Roman Empire, the electoral assembly to determine the Roman-German king or emperor was called a cure . The word is derived from the Middle High German kur or kure (“choice”) and is a cognate from the Dutch keuren , “to look, to sample , to test”.

Initially, all of the so-called greats of the empire were entitled to vote , and since the second half of the 13th century only the electors .

See also : Further information on the course and history of the cure

literature

• Ulrich Reuling : The cure in Germany and France . Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1979, ISBN 978-3-525-35376-9 .