<P> The Peace of Augsburg , also called the Augsburg Settlement , was a treaty between Charles V , Holy Roman Emperor ( the predecessor of Ferdinand I ) and the Schmalkaldic League , signed on September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg . It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire , allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official confession of their state . Calvinism was not allowed until the Peace of Westphalia . </P>
<P> The Peace of Augsburg , also called the Augsburg Settlement , was a treaty between Charles V , Holy Roman Emperor ( the predecessor of Ferdinand I ) and the Schmalkaldic League , signed on September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg . It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire , allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official confession of their state . Calvinism was not allowed until the Peace of Westphalia . </P>
what agreement gave religious freedom to the lutherans
what agreement gave religious freedom to the lutherans
Augsburg Settlement
Augsburg Settlement