REICHSREGIMENT

rīkhsˈrāˌgēmĕntˈ [Ger.,=government of the empire], imperial council created by the Diet of Augsburg in 1500. It was intended to form the executive branch of the government of the Holy Roman Empire. Headed by the emperor or by his deputy, it comprised 20 other members representing the ecclesiastic and secular princes, the various estates, and the free cities. The creation of the Reichsregiment (as well as of the imperial court of justice, of an imperial taxation, and of an imperial army) represented a serious but unsuccessful effort toward transforming the Holy Roman Empire into a unified national state. Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I gave it little support and dissolved it in 1502. His successor, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was requested at the Diet of Worms (1521) to restore the Reichsregiment, but he merely gave the council full powers only in the emperor's absence and reduced it to an advisory body at other times. Lacking the support of the emperor, the council failed. It was formally dissolved in 1531.

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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 2
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1903
Subjects: History, Modern
...148 Reichsregiment and Reichskammergericht 149...Difficulties of the Reichsregiment 151...death of Sickingen. Failure of the Reichsregiment 156...
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A History of the Reformation - Vol. 1
Book by Thomas M. Lindsay; T. & T. Clark, 1907
Subjects: Anabaptists, Counter-Reformation, Reformation, Socinianism
...Charles V., agreed to accept a Reichsregiment , which was in all essential points...cities were not represented. This Reichsregiment was to govern all German lands...who were not represented in the Reichsregiment , pay for the whole of the central...
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A History of the Reformation - Vol. 1
Book by Thomas M. Lindsay; T & T Clark, 1907
Subjects: Anabaptists, Counter-Reformation, Reformation, Socinianism
...Charles V., agreed to accept a Reichsregiment , which was in all essential points...cities were not represented. This Reichsregiment was to govern all German lands...who were not represented in the Reichsregiment , pay for the whole of the central...
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Germany in Western Civilization
Book by William Harvey Maehl; University of Alabama, 1979
Subjects: Germany--History
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A Short History of Germany
Book by Ernest F. Henderson; Macmillan Company, 1902
Subjects: Germany--History
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Reich, Nation, Volk: Early Modern Perspectives
Journal article by Joachim Whaley; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: German literature--Analysis, National identity--Analysis
...his prerogative powers, in particular the right to levy taxes or to raise a German army. The estates failed to establish a Reichsregiment or central governing body of their own, largely independent of the emperor. On the other hand, the dualist system of Kaiser...


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Reichsregiment
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
REICHSREGIMENT rikhs ra gement Ger.,=government of the empire...estates, and the free cities. The creation of the Reichsregiment (as well as of the imperial court of justice, of...requested at the Diet of Worms (1521) to restore the Reichsregiment, but he merely gave the council full powers only...
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Worms, Diet Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...opened in Jan., 1521, by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V . After disposing of other business, notably the question of the Reichsregiment , the diet took up the question of the recalcitrant behavior of Martin Luther . Charles was induced to summon Luther...
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Holy Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...would control all external and internal affairs of the empire. Under pressure Maximilian I created (1500) a council (see Reichsregiment ) and an imperial court of justice. However, these were only temporary measures, since the Hapsburgs had no intention of...
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Charles V , Holy Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at the fateful Diet of Worms (see Worms, Diet of ) in 1521, Charles secured a satisfactory compromise regarding the Reichsregiment but unyieldingly opposed the doctrines of Martin Luther. In his written opinion, Charles declared himself ready to stake...
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Maximilian I , 1459–1519, Holy Roman Emperor and German King
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...princes and the emperor for ultimate power. Maximilian was forced in 1500 to adhere temporarily to a council of regency (see Reichsregiment ), although he eventually dispensed with this restriction. Nevertheless the Diet of Worms (1495) established a supreme court...


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