Peace of Augsburg - 1555 - The Protestant Reformation
instigated a spate of religious turmoil and warfare throughout
Europe, since few states and officials could agree on the fate of
the two intertwined yet conflicting ecclesiastical disciplines. Wars
between Italy, Spain, Germany and the Turks marked the period until
the Peace of Augsburg. The Peace of Augsburg granted Lutherans the
same legal rights as Catholics and settled the disputes between the
Lutheran Germans and other non-Lutherans. The Peace of Augsburg also
cemented the independence of the German Princes who had eschewed the
will of the Holy Roman Emperor and triumphed.
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