diets of Regensburg

…Carinthia by the Diet of Regensburg (1274), then placed under the ban of the empire (June 1276). Finally Rudolf invaded Austria and forced him to renounce all his territories save Bohemia and Moravia (Treaty of Vienna, November 1276). Two years later, in an attempt to reassert his rights, Otakar marched…

…in 1541 the Diet of Regensburg granted them major concessions, even if those were later rejected by both the pope and Luther. Although Ferdinand, having lost his Hungarian capital in August 1541, pleaded for a land campaign against Süleyman I, Charles again decided on a naval venture, which failed dismally…

The Imperial Diet meeting in Regensburg had also become an instrument for the promotion of particularistic advantage rather than national welfare. It continued in theory to express the will of the estates of the realm meeting in solemn deliberation. In fact it had degenerated into a debating society without authority…