Golden Bull regulates imperial elections
January 1356
Charles IV's diet at Nuremberg fixed the seven prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire and the procedure for choosing future emperors. The papacy got no role in the process. Frankfurt would host elections, Aachen coronations, and the bull would govern German constitutional life until the Empire's dissolution four and a half centuries later in 1806.
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