SWABIAN LEAGUE

association of Swabian cities and other powers in SW Germany for the protection of trade and for regional peace. The Swabian League of 1488–1534 is the best known of the long series dating from the 14th cent. Supported by the Holy Roman emperor as an instrument of imperial power, it comprised more than 26 cities and many nobles, knights, and prelates. The league had a court, a powerful army, and a formal constitution (renewed in 1496, 1500, 1512, and 1522). It backed the election (1519) of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and it used its military power to expel Duke Ulrich I from Württemberg. The league played a leading role in putting down the knights' revolt led by Franz von Sickingen, and it helped defeat the peasants in the Peasants' War. The dissolution (1534) of the league resulted from the opposition of interests between its feudal members and its cities and from the religious split caused by the Reformation. Many Protestant members in 1531 joined the Schmalkaldic League. Later attempts by Charles V to restore the Swabian League failed.

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National States and National Minorities
Book by C. A. Macartney; Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1934
Subjects: League Of Nations, Minorities, Nationalism
...latter remark applies equally to the League of Nations Union. Since 1928 I have had...however, in no sense a statement of the League of Nations Unions policy; indeed, on...text or footnotes: these are, L. of N.: League of Nations; L.N.O.J.: League of Nations...
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Germany's Northern Challenge: The Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Struggle for the Baltic, 1563-1576
Book by Jason Lavery; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Baltic Sea Region--History, Hanseatic League--History, Holy Roman Empire--Foreign Relations--Sweden, Holy Roman Empire--History--Maximilian Ii, 1564-1576, Northern Seven Years' War, 1563-1570, Sweden--Foreign Relations--Holy Roman Empire, Sweden--History--Eric Xiv, 1560-1568, Sweden--History--John Iii, 1567-1592
...Seven Years War, 1563-1570. 3. Hanseatic League-History. 4. Baltic Sea Region-History...Ottomans. Although this anti-Polish league never materialized, Maximilian did succeed...German Protestants in the Schmalkaldic League. Gustav, for a variety of reasons, remained...
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Economic and Social History of Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300-1530)
Book by James Westfall Thompson; Century, 1931
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions, Europe--Social Conditions, Middle Ages--History
...PERIOD OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR 1337-1380 81 IV TOWN LEAGUES IN GERMANY 126 SEATIC LEAGUE 146 UTONIC KNIGHTS IN PRUSSIA AND THE BALTIC LANDS...
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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 2
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton; Cambridge University Press, 1903
Subjects: History, Modern
...Clement 23 League of Cognac, 1526. Sack of Rome, 1527. Effects...Conspiracy of Girolamo Morone, 1525. League of Cognac, 1526 52 Ineffective action of the League in the Milanese. Ugo de Moncada and the...
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The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660
Book by Richard Bonney; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--History--1492-1648
...Confederation defeats the forces of the Swabian League. 1500 Treaty between Louis...Wittelsbach forces by the Swabian League. 1505 Louis XII purchases...at the Field of Cloth of Gold. Swabian League sells the occupied duchy...
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The Emperor and the Exiles: the Clash of Religion and Politics in the Late Sixteenth Century
Journal article by Jill Raitt; Church History, Vol. 52, 1983
Subjects: Church History
...Ulrich of Wurttemberg was deprived of his duchy by the Swabian League, which sold the duchy to Charles V, who in turn handed...the French exiles on their way, the duke of Guise, in league with the king of Spain, might take the presence of...
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The Emperor and the Exiles: the Clash of Religion and Politics in the Late Sixteenth Century
Journal article by Jill Raitt; Church History, Vol. 52, 1983
Subjects: Church History
...Ulrich of Wurttemberg was deprived of his duchy by the Swabian League, which sold the duchy to Charles V, who in turn handed...the French exiles on their way, the duke of Guise, in league with the king of Spain, might take the presence of...
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Southern History in Periodicals, 2000: A Selected Bibliography
Journal article; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001
...Loyaltys Political Vanguard: The Union League of Maryville, Tennessee, 1867-1869. Jour...23-42. RICHARD A. HAWKINS. Lynchburgs Swabian Jewish Entrepreneurs in War and Peace...Townsend, and the Norfolk Equal Suffrage League fl. 1909-1920. Va. Cavalcade, v. 49, Spring...
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Rosa Luxemburg's Political Heir: An Appreciation of Paul Levi
Journal article by David Fernbach; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1999
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...could lapse jovially into the Swabian dialect of his childhood environment...the ideas of the Spartakus League, as was done by Johann Knief...Spartakus programme: The Spartakus League will never take over government...struggle of the Spartakus League. 61 The leftists, and especially...
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German Volkskunde and National Socialism
Journal article by James R. Dow; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 100, 1987
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...promoted by the German Research Association. The four were the "League of German Societies for Volkskunde " under John Meier (Director...apply folklore scholarship to active cultural practices (a Swabian village wedding with lighted candle and an open copy of Mein...
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The First Common Market? in the 13th Century a Remarkable Trading Block Was Formed in Northern Europe. Stephen Halliday Explains How the Hanseatic League Prospered for 300 Years before the Rise of the Nation State Led to Its Dissolution
Magazine article by Stephen Halliday; History Today, Vol. 59, July 2009
Subjects: Hanseatic League--History, International agencies--History, International organizations--History, International trade--History, Protectionism--History
...reassert the authority of the League was made by the mayor of Lubeck...Nuremberg in Bavaria and the Swabian city of Augsburg. Both cities...allies. Rivalries between the Leagues cities ensured that its power...The legacy of the Hanseatic League lives on in the name of the...
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Maximilian I Signs the Peace of Basel
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999
Subjects: Basel, Switzerland--Politics and government, Maximilian I--Biography
...Switzerland, in alliance with the Swabian League of minor principalities in southern...too, must have a master. The Swabian War was waged along the Rhine for...acknowledged the existence of the League and, tacitly, conceded Swiss independence...
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The Treaty of Westphalia
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 48, October 1998
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--History, Treaties--History, Treaty of Westphalia--1648
...France, Wallenstein for the Empire and Tilly for the Catholic League, and there was an able Bavarian general curiously named Franz...bark and grass, says a pitiful entry in a family Bible from a Swabian village. `No one could have imagined that anything like this...
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Reinhold's Era: Life with a Public Theologian
Magazine article by Gary Dorrien; The Christian Century, Vol. 121, February 24, 2004
Subjects: The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War (Book)
...security was the realistic alternative to war. He wanted the U.S. to enact neutrality legislation and to voluntarily support League of Nations sanctions. Sifton never mentions any of this, but Niebuhrs strident opposition to Roosevelts preparations for war...


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Scandal and Justice in a German Town
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, March 10, 1996
...cavalry officer, a mercenary at the top of a career spent "killing factious noblemen and rebellious peasants for the Swabian League." But such feelings of familiarity are illusory, on account of the mysteries presented to the modern mind by the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Swabian League  - 10 results

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Swabian League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SWABIAN LEAGUE association of Swabian cities and...of trade and for regional peace. The Swabian League of 1488 1534 is the best known of the...attempts by Charles V to restore the Swabian League failed. ____________________ Copyright...
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Reutlingen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from the mid-13th cent. until it passed (1802 3) to Wurttemberg. In 1377 the Swabian League defeated Duke Ulrich of Wurttemberg there. Reutlingen was the first Swabian city to accept the Protestant Reformation (16th cent.). The Church of St. Mary...
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Swabia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...forming a series of leagues, starting in 1331. The Swabian League of 1376 89 successfully opposed Emperor Charles IV...defeated by the count of Wurttemberg. The most important Swabian League was that of 1488 1534. The chief Swabian cities accepted...
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Augsburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Frankish kings. It was made a free imperial city in 1276 and was later a powerful member of various Swabian leagues, including the Swabian League of 1488 1534. Augsburg was one of Europes most important commercial and banking centers in the...
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Esslingen Am Neckar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...city from the 13th cent. to 1802, when it passed to Wurttemberg. It was (1488) the scene of the founding of the Great Swabian League. Noteworthy structures include a castle (13th 16th cent.) and a Gothic church, the Frauenkirche (14th 16th cent...
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