Diet of Worms

The diet is a general meeting (a diet) of the States of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire. It was held on several occasions with Worms, small town bordered by the the Rhine and located in Germany.

Diet of 829

Diet of 926

Diet of 1076

Really it is not a question of a diet but of a Synode joining together in January 1076 the German bishops and the emperor Henri IV. During this diet held under the presidency of Henri IV, the pope Gregoire VII is declared deposed (January 24th). In answer, the pope relieves and excommunicates the emperor.

Diet of 1122

It is not a question strictly speaking of a diet but of a Concordat signed on September 23rd 1122 between the pope Calixte II and the emperor Henri V. He put an end to the Querelle Nominations: he was recognized with the bishops and the abbots a double nomination:

  • a religious nomination while giving the stick and the ring to him (given by the Church) which makes of him the holder of the spiritual power
  • then a feudal nomination given by the emperor, making of him the owner of a stronghold.
The canonical elections were to take place without simony freely nor violence and to proceed in the presence of the emperor or of his representative.

Diet of 1231

The emperor Frederic II seeking supports in Germany for his Italian policy, had, by the Statutum in favorem principum , to grant to it to the vassal laymen the same privileges that the prelates had obtained as of 1220.

Diet of 1495

The diet of 1495, joined together by Maximilien Ier, tries to regulate with the profit it imperial capacity the violence of the princes and to dam up the desingretation of the Saint Empire. For that, the diet tries to modernize the Constitution of the Empire; she proclaims perpetual peace, prohibited the private wars and creates a Court of Empire ( Reichskammergericht ) to regulate the different ones between immediate sovereigns from the Empire. The tax of Empire is introduced there.

Diet of 1521

It was held January 28th with the May 25th 1521, under the presidency of the emperor Charles Quint. Although many topics were treated there, the diet especially remained famous to have approached the case of Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Réforme.

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