Enfeoffment as a Tool in the Safeguarding of Power?
Stefan Brenner
Personal unions, that is, the simultaneous exercise of legally unrelated offices or functions by same person, were an integral part political ruling practice in large parts medieval and early modern Europe. Alongside dazzling well-known examples from among Europe's elites, however, this chapter examines personal unions a different, more ordinary perspective: 1552, Christopher Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel Welf dynasty sought to be enfeoffed Emperor Charles V as count duke quasi-autonomous aristocratic federal republic Dithmarschen. The history relationship between Dithmarschen Bremen archdiocese goes back long way: following subjugation Saxon tribes north Elbe Charlemagne ninth century, allegedly was soon included county Carolingian empire assigned archbishopric Hamburg-Bremen.
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