Imperial immediacy (German: Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit) was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under...

of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet. An imperial city held the status of imperial immediacy, and was subordinate only to the Holy Roman...

status of imperial immediacy (Reichsunmittelbarkeit) and therefore were answerable directly to the Emperor. The possession of imperial immediacy came with...

a Count's bench an imperial count obtained, the "seat and vote" within the Imperial Diet which, combined with Imperial immediacy, made of his chief land...

up immediacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Immediacy may refer to: Immediacy, a concept in English law, see duress in English law Immediacy, a concept...

territories which held imperial immediacy. Initially the 1500 Diet of Augsburg set up six imperial circles as part of the Imperial Reform: the Bavarian Circle...

of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1166, Aachen was given imperial immediacy and declared a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick...

Estates of the Holy Roman Empire were mediatised. They lost their Imperial immediacy and became part of other Estates. The number of Estates was reduced...

lost its Imperial immediacy and in the future would have a second overlord in addition to the emperor. Famous people placed under the imperial ban included:...

this privilege to be constitutive for its status as a Free imperial city of imperial immediacy. Through the history the respective rulers of the Prince-Archbishopric...

abbots, etc.) and the free imperial cities, that also enjoyed Imperial immediacy. However, unlike all of those, the Imperial knights did not possess the...

includes any territory ruled by an authority that had been granted imperial immediacy, as well as many other feudal entities such as lordships, sous-fiefs...

the Holy Roman Empire was the sovereign ruler of an imperial estate that held imperial immediacy in the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire. The territory...

empire in 1806, it was in permanent session at Regensburg. All Imperial Estates enjoyed immediacy and, therefore, they had no authority above them besides the...

imperial immediacy, having no lord but the Emperor, but were not estates. They were unencircled and did not have representation in the Imperial Diet. In...

it had lost east of the Rhine. In 1803 Goslar officially lost its imperial immediacy at the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss. The Siemens reforms were further...

formed a rare union of rural and urban communes, all of which enjoyed imperial immediacy in the Holy Roman Empire. This confederation of eight cantons (Acht...

immediate fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged and gained imperial immediacy in 1180. By their original constitution they were prince-bishoprics...

Frankfurt was declared an Imperial Free City (Freie und Reichsstadt) in 1372, making the city an entity of Imperial immediacy, meaning immediately subordinate...

Zähringer, Habsburg, and Kyburg. Other regions were accorded the Imperial immediacy that granted the empire direct control over the mountain passes. When...

religious leaders, but simultaneously ruled as princes of a territory of imperial immediacy (which usually comprised a part of their diocesan territory). Thus...

seal. In 1309, Henry VII confirmed the imperial immediacy of the territory of Unterwalden as part of the imperial bailiwick of Waldstätte (but not as a...

parts of the family's territories reverted to the crown (attained imperial immediacy), while other parts were divided between the houses of Kyburg, Urach...

duchy of Saxony was partitioned in some dozens of territories of imperial immediacy by Barbarossa, and ceased to exist. The western part was split amongsy...

from the late 12th century until 1929. In 1349 the county gained Imperial immediacy and in 1712 was raised to the rank of principality. After the dissolution...

G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Free Imperial Cities, Imperial abbeys, Imperial Knights, Imperial Villages This is a list of states in the Holy...

Middle Ages, Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, became a primary centre of the Protestant Reformation...

duchies. Saxony was divided among the imperial coalitionaries and so the Catholic Bishop of Verden gained imperial immediacy for parts of his diocesan territory...

register was often viewed as an important indicator of the imperial immediacy of an imperial estate, although that was not always undisputed. The importance...

In 1313, Count Amadeus V the Great officially gained the status of Imperial immediacy from Emperor Henry VII. What was left of the Kingdom of Burgundy effectively...