Letter of will

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Letter of will ( mhd. , = Written consent). If royal. Decisions concerning imperial law (e.g. imperial fiefs, imperial property), was the written consensus of the imperial princes , from the 13th century on, primarily to obtain the electors . In the late Middle Ages , the elector's letter of will was their most important instrument for influencing imperial politics.

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  • See Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, p. 650
  • Daniel Heimes: The letter of will of Rudolf I. von Sachsen-Wittenberg to Balduin von Luxemburg from 1339, In: Sächsisches Archivblatt issue 1/2011 PDF