Diet of Augsburg
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Sep 20, 2026
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After this failure there was no course left but concession.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Diet of Augsburg in 1555 confirmed the peace agreed to at Passau.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Protestants were to practice their own religion wherever it had been at that time established.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth all princes and cities might tolerate or prohibit either religion within their territories.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The maxim cuius regio eius religio, he who rules the country may settle its religion, was now distinctly accepted.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
By this decree of the Diet of Augsburg the Protestants obtained for the first time a legal position within the empire.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Their right to maintain their religion was unconditionally recognized.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth Catholicism could not claim to be the established religion of Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After this failure there was no course left but concession.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Diet of Augsburg in 1555 confirmed the peace agreed to at Passau.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Protestants were to practice their own religion wherever it had been at that time established.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth all princes and cities might tolerate or prohibit either religion within their territories.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The maxim cuius regio eius religio, he who rules the country may settle its religion, was now distinctly accepted.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
By this decree of the Diet of Augsburg the Protestants obtained for the first time a legal position within the empire.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Their right to maintain their religion was unconditionally recognized.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth Catholicism could not claim to be the established religion of Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After this failure there was no course left but concession.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Diet of Augsburg in 1555 confirmed the peace agreed to at Passau.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Protestants were to practice their own religion wherever it had been at that time established.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth all princes and cities might tolerate or prohibit either religion within their territories.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The maxim cuius regio ejus religio, he who rules the country may settle its religion, was now distinctly accepted.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
By this decree of the Diet of Augsburg the Protestants obtained for the first time a legal position within the empire.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Their right to maintain their religion was unconditionally recognized.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth Catholicism could not claim to be the established religion of Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the war that broke out, only the Swabian League gave help, and after suffering defeats which were a great blow to his military prestige, Maximilian came to terms in the Treaty of Basel which freed the Swiss from the tax and all imperial jurisdiction, though they continued to be part of the empire in name until the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Under circumstances that were not improved by the French conquest of Milan in 1500, Maximilian himself proposed at the Diet of Augsburg a standing committee of the Diet, known as the Council of Regency, to act as the executive in his prolonged absences from Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The power lay with the electors and princes.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It was, as the Venetian ambassador described it, an abdication of the emperor.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His brother Augustus succeeded in the electorate, and his unfortunate cousin, the good elector, John Frederick, did not survive him many months.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Charles had for some time longed to withdraw from the wearisome and perplexing struggle, and with the death of Morris, the downfall of Albert, the failure of his plans for Philip's succession, and the agreement arrived at between Ferdinand and some of the leading Protestants, he judged that the time had come.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Moreover, he could not face the necessity of yielding on the religious question, so he left Ferdinand to deal on his own responsibility with the Diet of Augsburg, and setting his face toward the Netherlands, turned his back forever on Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The agreement concluded between Ferdinand and the Diet, which is known as the Peace of Augsburg, 1555, contained the following clauses.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
My wife also, with tears, expresses her desire that you should come.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
We will here nurse you most tenderly." But the father was unable to go and died in a few months after, whilst Luther was residing at Coburg, where he had concealed himself during the Diet of Augsburg.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
As soon as Catherine heard of the event, she was very solicitous about the effect of the intelligence on her absent husband, of whose affectionate attachment to his father she was well aware.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
She wrote to him a letter full of consolation, and in order more effectually to calm his troubled heart, she sent him a likeness of his favorite child, Magdalena, at that time an infant of a year old.
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Bill MosleyNARRATOR
they were taught to pray and to read the scriptures and other devotional books in the presence of the family particularly during their meals did he address them in impressive paternal admonitions morning and evening he assembled his numerous family house teachers guests and domestics to worship
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when it is elsewhere said
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
that luther daily spent three hours in private devotion it must be restricted to the period of the diet of augsburg when he was concealed at coburg luther during all his life was a man of prayer although he was opposed to mechanical formality in regard to special times and seasons as he had been taught in the church of rome Yet he maintained a certain order and regularity in the performance of his Christian duty.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
Mathesius, one of his biographers and a contemporary, says, quote, every morning and evening, and often during meals, he engaged in prayer.
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Alan WinteroutNARRATOR
And the Diet of Augsburg and every scheme for civil and religious oppression terminated in the concessions of an equitable peace.
Alan WinteroutNARRATOR
The Diet of Augsburg divided Germany into two religious and two political parties by recognizing the independent rights and existence of both.
Alan WinteroutNARRATOR
Hitherto the Protestants have been looked on as rebels.
Alan WinteroutNARRATOR
They were henceforth to be regarded as brethren, not indeed through affection, but necessity.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After this failure there was no course left but concession.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Diet of Augsburg in 1555 confirmed the peace agreed to at Passau.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Protestants were to practice their own religion wherever it had been at that time established.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth all princes and cities might tolerate or prohibit either religion within their territories.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The maxim cuius regio eius religio, he who rules the country may settle its religion, was now distinctly accepted.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
By this decree of the Diet of Augsburg the Protestants obtained for the first time a legal position within the empire.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Their right to maintain their religion was unconditionally recognized.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henceforth Catholicism could not claim to be the established religion of Germany.
Peter BollandHOST
And what I want to suggest to you today is this, that the Protestant Reformation still matters today.
Peter BollandHOST
That the very same principles, the very same things that caused Martin Luther to nail his 95 thesis to the church door in Whitburg, the same thing that caused princes to present the Augsburg Confession to the emperor at the Diet of Augsburg, The very same thing that caused the Puritans to write the Westminster Confession of Faith and name the Pope as that Antichrist.
Peter BollandHOST
The very same thing that caused Oliver Cromwell to oppose papal Catholic tyranny, even with military might.
Peter BollandHOST
Those same things still apply today, and it is important that we take our stand.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A central administrative body was needed, but this Maximilian had declined to grant.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Yet to this scheme also he gave his consent at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500, being driven to it by the failure of his Italian expedition and his great need of support.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Council of Regency, as this new executive body was called, was to be presided over by the Emperor, or a deputy nominated by him.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His Austrian and Netherlandish dominions were each to have one member in the Council.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Meanwhile the sale of the indulgences diminished.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Pope, who was indifferent to the monkish dispute, could not be indifferent to this serious decline in his revenues, and Luther was summoned to Rome, July fifteen eighteen.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This summons was afterwards cancelled, and he was ordered to appear before the papal legate, Cardinal Cajetan, at the Diet of Augsburg, October fifteen eighteen.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The meeting was not a success.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A central administrative body was needed, but this Maximilian had declined to grant.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Yet to this scheme also he gave his consent at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500, being driven to it by the failure of his Italian expedition and his great need of support.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Council of Regency, as this new executive body was called, was to be presided over by the emperor or a deputy nominated by him.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His Austrian and Netherlandish dominions were each to have one member in the council.
2 HRS 49 MINS LATER
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Meanwhile the sale of the indulgences diminished.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The pope, who was indifferent to the monkish dispute, could not be indifferent to this serious decline in his revenues, and Luther was summoned to Rome, July 1518.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This summons was afterwards cancelled, and he was ordered to appear before the papal legate, Cardinal Cajetan, at the Diet of Augsburg, October 1518.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The meeting was not a success.