Imperial circle in the context of "Burgundian Circle"

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⭐ Core Definition: Imperial circle

During the early modern period, the Holy Roman Empire was divided into imperial circles (Latin: Circuli imperii; German: Reichskreise [ˈʁaɪçsˌkʁaɪzə]; singular: Circulus imperii, Reichskreis [ˈʁaɪçsˌkʁaɪs]), administrative groupings whose primary purposes were the organization of common defensive structure and the collection of imperial taxes. They were also used as a means of organization within the Imperial Diet and the Imperial Chamber Court. Each circle had a circle diet, although not every member of the circle diet would hold membership of the Imperial Diet as well.

Six imperial circles were introduced at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500. In 1512, three more circles were added, and the large Saxon Circle was split into two, so that from 1512 until the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in the Napoleonic era, there were ten imperial circles. The Crown of Bohemia, the Swiss Confederacy and Italy remained unencircled, as did various minor territories which held imperial immediacy and mostly regrouped the semi-official Kingdom of Germany and the remains of the Kingdom of Arles.

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👉 Imperial circle in the context of Burgundian Circle

The Burgundian Circle (German: Burgundischer Kreis, Dutch: Bourgondische Kreits, French: Cercle de Bourgogne) was an imperial circle of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1512 and significantly enlarged in 1548. In addition to the Free County of Burgundy (the region of Franche-Comté), the Burgundian Circle roughly covered the Low Countries, i.e., the areas now known as the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and adjacent parts in the French administrative region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. For most of its history, its lands were coterminous with the Habsburg Netherlands and the Burgundian Free County (Franche-Comté).

The circle's territorial scope was reduced considerably in the 17th century with the secession of the Seven United Provinces in 1581 (recognized 1648 under the Treaty of Westphalia) and the annexation of the Free County of Burgundy by France in 1678. Consequently, in the 18th century the circle was known as Austrian Netherlands as the Austrian Habsburgs had obtained the territory from Spain earlier in that century. The occupation and subsequent annexation of Imperial territory to the west of the Rhine river by Revolutionary France in the 1790s effectively brought an end to the circle's existence.

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Imperial circle in the context of Upper Rhenish Circle

The Upper Rhenish Circle (German: Oberrheinischer Reichskreis) was an imperial circle of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1500 on the territory of the former Duchy of Upper Lorraine and large parts of Rhenish Franconia including the Swabian Alsace region and the Burgundian duchy of Savoy. Many of the circle's states west of the Rhine river were annexed by France under King Louis XIV during the 17th century, sealed by the 1678/79 Treaties of Nijmegen.

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Imperial circle in the context of Austrian Circle

The Austrian Circle (German: Österreichischer Reichskreis) was an imperial circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was one of the four imperial circles created by decree after the 1512 Diet at Cologne, twelve years after the original six Circles were established in the course of the Imperial Reform. It roughly corresponds to present-day Austria (except for Salzburg and Burgenland), Slovenia, and the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Venezia Giulia regions of Northern Italy, but also comprised the Further Austrian territories in the former Swabian stem duchy.

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Imperial circle in the context of Swabian Circle

The Circle of Swabia or Swabian Circle (German: Schwäbischer Reichskreis or Schwäbischer Kreis) was an imperial circle of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1500 on the territory of the former German stem-duchy of Swabia. However, it did not include the Habsburg home territories of Swabian Austria, the member states of the Swiss Confederacy nor the lands of the Alsace region west of the Rhine, which belonged to the Upper Rhenish Circle. The Swabian League of 1488, a predecessor organization, disbanded in the course of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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LINKED FROM (PARENTS)
← Burgundian Circle ← Upper Rhenish Circle ← Austrian Circle ← Swabian Circle
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Burgundian Circle → Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle → Electoral Rhenish Circle → Upper Rhenish Circle → Lower Saxon Circle → Upper Saxon Circle → Franconian Circle → Swabian Circle → Bavarian Circle → Austrian Circle → Territories of the Holy Roman Empire outside the Imperial Circles → Early modern period → Holy Roman Empire → Latin language → German language → Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire) → Reichskammergericht → Diet of Augsburg → Saxon Circle → War of the Third Coalition → Lands of the Bohemian Crown → Early Modern Switzerland → Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire) → Imperial immediacy → Kingdom of Germany → Kingdom of Arles →