Maximilian I's 1502 Knightly Political Turn

Timeline

1. 1502Nuremberg · BavariaIn 1502 Maximilian formally dissolved the Reichsregiment because it weakened imperial authority and princes refused to fund it, a major setback for permanent imperial administrative reform.
2. 1502Innsbruck · TyrolThat same year the emperor merged the court chancery with the imperial chancery, strengthening the Innsbruck court's control over imperial affairs and forming a more personal administrative center.
3. 1502Innsbruck · TyrolMaximilian systematically turned to regional alliances, imperial knights, and free cities as bulwarks against the great princes, providing a social basis for implementing the Eternal Peace and creating imperial circles, though he failed to solve the empire's taxation problem.