Treaty of Nuremberg

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The Treaty of Nuremberg was concluded on August 26, 1542 at the Reichstag in Nuremberg and sealed by the imperial estates. Emperor Charles V confirmed the contract on July 28, 1543 in Speyer .

The treaty regulated the legal relationship between the Duchy of Lorraine and the Holy Roman Empire . Emperor Charles V granted Duke Anton II of Lorraine in the Treaty of Nuremberg great independence. This led to the detachment of Lorraine from the Holy Roman Empire and ushered in the growing influence of France.

literature

  • Silvia Schweinzer-Burian: The Reichstag in Nuremberg 1542 . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58733-3 , pp. 63, 95, 174 ff . ( Google Books ).
  • Johann Theodor Roth: Literature of the state relations between Germany and France . Jacobi Brothers, Weissenburg 1798, p. 216 ff . ( Google Books ).