• The imperial ban (‹See Tfd›German: Reichsacht) was a form of outlawry in the Holy Roman Empire. At different times, it could be declared by the Holy Roman...
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    The Imperial ban automatically followed the excommunication of a person, and extended to anyone offering help to a person under the imperial ban. During...
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    act as joint vicars, but the Imperial Diet rejected the agreement. In 1711, while the Elector of Bavaria was under the ban of the Empire, the Elector Palatine...
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  • place/item Imperial ban (Reichsacht), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire Ban (medieval), the sovereign's power to command King's ban (Königsbann)...
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    electoral dignity. In 1621, Frederick V, Elector Palatine was put under the imperial ban for his role in the Bohemian Revolt against Ferdinand II, Holy Roman...
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    brought trouble to Aachen. In 1580 Protestantism got the upper hand; an Imperial ban resulted and was imposed in 1598 by Ernest of Bavaria, archbishop-elector...
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    be an Imperial Estate by being subjected to the Imperial ban (the most notable example involved Frederick V, Elector Palatine, who was banned in 1621...
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    followers abandoned him. On 28 October 1614, an imperial herald announced in the Römer that the Imperial ban had been imposed on Fettmilch, and the tailors...
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    Roman-German king and, later, Emperor Maximilian I also pronounced the imperial ban on von Trotha. However, the Elector only distanced himself from von Trotha...
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    the same congregation sided with the Jesuits in 1656, thereby lifting the ban. It was one of the many disputes between the Jesuits and the Dominicans in...
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