Treaty of Westphalia

Glossary

• Allodations lands or estates held outright, with no ties of feudal obligation
• Cessions and Alienations territories ceded or otherwise conveyed to other parties
• Diets of the Empire qualified legislative bodies of the participating states
• Edict of 1619 or the Transaction of Prague, … attempts made during the war to reinstate Catholicism into formerly Protestant areas; their inclusion here is simply to state that the Treaty of Westphalia supersedes any and all previous such agreements
• his most Christian Majesty Louis XIV, king of France
• his Sacred Imperial Majesty Ferdinand III, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, and eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II
• Imperial Capitulation approval of the treaty, a statement saying that the emperor will have to capitulate to the dictates of Westphalia
• Laick secular
• renewing the Matricular-Book renewal of imperial allegiance within the Holy Roman Empire
• Moveables personal property
• regales royal prerogatives