Duchy of Bavaria

The duchy of Bavaria was an old State of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire.

About the year 600, the territory of the current free State of Bavaria was occupied by three tribes: the “ Baiern ” which gave their name to the country, the Francs and the Souabes. While current Bavaria of North fell under sovereignty the Francs, the Alamans and the Bavarian ones formed, in the south, of the sovereign territories separated by the river Lech.

With its beginnings, the Bavarian duchy extended far towards the east and the south, until the current Carinthie, in Low-Austria and High-Italy. But the heart of the country was located on the the Danube. To, these territories gave rise to the duchies of Bavaria, Carinthie and Austria. The principal ducal seat was Ratisbon.

With, the Bavaria was parcelled out by many divisions. It is necessary to await the successional payment adopted in 1506 so that the duchy is transmitted without division to the first wire born of male line. It remained about it thus until the 19th century.

The theses of Martin Luther found many followers into the cities of current Bavaria. Thus, the town of Augsburg is related to the “Confession of Augsburg”, profession of faith of the Protestant states presented to the imperial diet in 1530, as with the “Paix of Augsburg” of 1555 which entrusted to the prince the responsibility to decide religion of its subjects. The Bavarian sovereigns, Maximilien Ier in particular (1598 - 1651), imposed the Catholicisme on the country at the time of the Counter-Reformation.

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