• The Peace of Passau was an attempt to resolve religious tensions in the Holy Roman Empire. After Emperor Charles V won a victory against Protestant forces...
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    Passau (German: [ˈpasaʊ] ; Central Bavarian: Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers")...
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    agreed. When the Peace of Passau, was signed in August 1552, the Lutheran position was provisionally guaranteed. As part of the Peace, his former opponents...
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    foreshadowed by the Peace of Passau, which in 1552 gave Lutherans religious freedom after a victory by Protestant armies. Under the Passau document, Charles...
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    Second Schmalkaldic War (category European wars of religion)
    the Peace of Passau in August, or dragged on until the Peace of Augsburg in September 1555. The Protestant princes were supported by King Henry II of France...
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    Thirty Years' War (category 17th-century military history of the Kingdom of England)
    1552 Peace of Passau ended the Schmalkaldic War, a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1555 Peace of Augsburg...
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    Diocese of Passau (Latin: Diœcesis Passaviensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich...
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    and Efficacy of Indulgences is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, then a professor of moral theology...
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    Ferdinand (King of the Romans) signed the Peace of Passau, which granted some freedoms to Protestants and ended all of Charles' hopes of religious unity...
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  • the Peace of Passau in 1552, and under the legal principle of Cuius regio, eius religio (the religion of the ruler was to dictate the religion of those...
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    reached in Passau on 22 Juli 1552. King Ferdinand then asked Henry IV to convince Emperor Charles V and the latter signed the Peace of Passau on 15 August...
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    had captured from the Catholic Church since the Peace of Passau (1552). The ecclesiastical leaders of the Catholic Church (bishops) that converted to...
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    forces and to cancel the Interim with the Peace of Passau, whereby John Frederick I of Saxony and Philip I of Hesse were released. An official settlement acknowledging...
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    events of his time, including involvement in the Schmalkaldic League and negotiations leading to the Peace of Passau. William advanced the interests of his...
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    by an alliance with King Henry II of France. He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated...
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    defeated, captured and banned. Nevertheless, according to the 1552 Peace of Passau he was pardoned and allowed to retain his lands in Thuringia. Upon...
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  • religious freedom was secured for Lutherans through the Peace of Passau of 1552 and the Peace of Augsburg of 1555. Religious disputes between the Crypto-Calvinists...
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  • Habsburgs' domains, forcing Charles to flee. Signed on 10 August 1552, the Peace of Passau prescribed that the religious issues were to be discussed at the following...
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    had captured from the Catholic Church since the Peace of Passau in 1552. The ecclesiastical leaders of the Catholic Church (bishops) that had converted...
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    torments and punishments of hell, but enter a prepared bedchamber in which they sleep in peace." He also rejected the existence of purgatory, which involved...
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  • Protestantism and Islam (category History of Protestantism)
    pressured King Charles V to sign the Peace of Nuremberg with the Protestant princes, accept the Peace of Passau, and the Peace of Augsburg, formally recognizing...
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    Three Bishoprics (category Former provinces of France)
    revocation of the Augsburg Interim by the 1552 Peace of Passau. Metz Cathedral Toul Cathedral Verdun Cathedral Backed by Duke Francis of Guise and his...
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    The French-allied German Protestant princes defeated Charles V (Peace of Passau, 2 August), while Henry II annexed the Three Bishoprics to France. July...
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    defeat of the Schmalkaldic League in 1547, the Emperor intended to take the Country of Montbéliard. Ulrich died in 1550. After the Peace of Passau of 1552...
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    leading up to the Peace of Passau (1552) and the Peace of Augsburg (1555). Duke Albert made strenuous efforts to procure for his son, Ernest of Bavaria, election...
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    made it alive to Villach in a state of semi-consciousness. Subsequently, the Emperor agreed to the Peace of Passau and liberated the Protestant princes...
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    Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (category Members of the States of Brabant)
    drew up the Peace of Passau (August 1552). In the following year he and Simon Renard, the ambassador of Charles V to the Queen Mary I of England, conducted...
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    this connection. After the conclusion of the Peace of Passau in 1552, Grumbach assisted Albert in his career of plunder in Franconia during the Second...
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    The Book of Concord (1580) or Concordia (often referred to as the Lutheran Confessions) is the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, consisting...
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  • internal conflict inside Germany, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result. States that allied at some point between 1618 and...
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