Peace of Augsburg

To fight the Reform, Charles Quint promulgates in 1521 the edict of Worms which prohibits the exercise of the Protestant religion strictly. It starts again in 1529 by joining together a diet with Spire which decides that the mass must be celebrated according to the catholic rite even in the reformed territories. The partisans of Luther refused this decision and were consequently called Protestant .
In 1546, the Emperor chooses the military action, combatant the princes Lutherans linked in the league known as of Schmalkalden. In spite of a military victory, a negotiation is essential: The Protestants count too many followers among the powerful German princes. A negotiation starts in Augsbourg.
The September 25th 1555, the Paix of Augsburg suspends the hostilities between the States Lutherans and the catholic States in Germany. These is a compromise which could be born only by eluding a great number of litigious questions. It rests on a basic principle: Cuius regio, eius religio is such prince, such religion .
The princes and the lords were from now on free to choose, for them and their vassal, between the two Christian religions. The grounds for dispute with the religion of their suzerain had the right to emigrate. It makes it possible to the Protestant princes to preserve the goods of the Church which they secularized. The Luthérianisme in the car of important advantages and finds with equality with the catholic .

This relative peace will end in 1618 with the Défenestration of Prague which is at the origin of the Guerre Thirty Year old.

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Peace treaty of Augsburg, German full version

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