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CONSEQUENCES OF THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION 3
- COLLAPSE AND COMPROMISE, 1547-55
- Charles triumph
was short lived
- In 1548, Charles forced the
Diet of Augsburg to accept the
new statement of faith; The
interim
- Allowed communion of
both kinds & clerical
marriage
- Confirmed Catholic teachings
- Protestant leaders
condemned it
- Pope Paul condemned
some of the small
concessions (compromises
made)
- Ferdinand withdrew his support when
Charles tried to have his son, Philip
recognised as a empire ruler
- Catholic princes were afraid
Charles would assert his
authority over them
- 1550 the Baltic princes formed a
2nd League of Torgau to defend
their rights & the Lutheran faith
- Maurice had not recieved everything he
was promised by Charles so switched
sides & supported the League in 1551
- Maurice then changed sides when he heard
that Charles was buying off the Princes
- Maurice had not enough troops to break with Henry II, he
reached an agreement with Charles V at the Treaty of
Passau in August 1552 (Lutheran princes allowed worship
till the next Diet & John Fredrick & Philip of Hesse released)
- Maurice is an important factor for the
survival of Lutheranism
- Enemies joined against
Charles V & the Pope & his
brother stood aside, he could
only rely on spanish taxation
for money
- PEACE AT AUGSBURG 1555
- Left Ferdinand to negotiate a
compromise - Charles did not
attend
- Charles V abdicated in 1556
- Catholics & Protestants to
be equally represented at
the Imperial Council
- All property of the Church taken over
before 1552 was to remain
protestant - NO FURTHER
SECULARISATIONS
- Secular princes (not
bound by a religious
rule) should decide on
the religion of the
people in their territory
- People allowed to move freely
from state to state to choose their
religion
- Showed Lutheranism could not be
crushed by force
- Marked the failure of Charles V - unity of
Christian Europe had been destroyed
- Peace did not allow
worship of other religion
(calvinism)