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Imperial Diet at Cologne, 1505

Type Event Region Europe Time 1505

The 1505 Imperial Diet at Cologne was an important imperial assembly under Maximilian I, its core topic being the arbitration of the Bavarian territo…

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  1. 1505Cologne · North Rhine-WestphaliaThe Imperial Diet at Cologne opened in June 1505, with formal arbitration negotiations over the division of the Bavarian territories after the Landshut War of Succession.
  2. 1505Cologne · North Rhine-WestphaliaOn July 30, 1505, Maximilian issued the Cologne Award: the Munich line received the bulk of Upper and Lower Bavaria, the Palatinate line received the Neuburg territory; the emperor himself obtained Kufstein and other places as compensation for his mediation.
  3. 1505Cologne · North Rhine-WestphaliaDuring the Diet the emperor proposed ideas for imperial constitutional reform and requested four thousand men as military aid to Hungary, but the princes were unresponsive and the related topics made no substantive breakthrough.

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