Courlande
The Courlands were those territories in the Holy Roman Empire with which the specific rights of the electors were inextricably linked. This legal status resulted from the Golden Bull of 1356, from imperial laws and the electoral capitulations. Kurlande, Kur and their ore offices were inextricably linked. Just like the electoral law and the Erzamt, the Courlands were also subject to indivisibility.
Courland of the Electorate of Brandenburg
The Electorate of Brandenburg consisted of several parts of the country, of which only the Altmark and the Mittelmark belong to the Kurmark. The Neumark and all later acquired areas were not part of the Kurlande.
Courland of the Electorate of Saxony
Saxony-Wittenberg went in 1423 as Kurkreis in Wettin dominions, as Electorate of Saxony called a. The Kurlande constituting the cure remained limited to the former Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg. That means that the duke who owned the district was elector. In the case of the partition of Leipzig in 1485, this meant that only the Ernestine part of the country received the right to vote, and the Albertine part only retained the ducal right.
literature
- Stephan Messinger: The transfer of the Palatinate electoral dignity to the Duchy of Bavaria: Legal, ceremonial and political problems, LIT Verlag Münster, 2015