Golden Bull

noun

1. an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.

Example Sentences

The golden bull, which fixes the Germanic constitution, is promulgated in the style of a sovereign and legislator.

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I have already bestowed the empire on a daughter in defiance of the Golden Bull.

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His reign is famous for the golden bull, enacted by the diet of Nuremberg.

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But until the promulgation of the Golden Bull the constitution and prerogatives of the college were never definitely ascertained.

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He honoured the Bohemian language so much as to recommend expressly, in the golden bull, to the sons of the Electors to learn it.

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