aulic council

noun

1. a personal council of the Holy Roman Emperor, exercising chiefly judicial powers.

Aulic Council

noun

1. a council, founded in 1498, of the Holy Roman Emperor. It functioned mainly as a judicial body

Example Sentences

The first recorded privilege in Germany was issued by the imperial Aulic Council in 1501, to the Rhenish Celtic Sodalitas for the printing of dramas of the nun-poet, Hroswitha, who had been dead for 600 years, as prepared by Celtes of Nuremberg.

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He created Titian a Count of the Lateran Palace, of the Aulic Council, and of the Consistory; with the title of Count Palatine, and all the advantages attached to those dignities.

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The Elector becomes at the same time Great Chancellor of the Empire of Germany, which gives him the Title of perpetual Dean of the Electors, and an Inspection into the Aulic Council and the Imperial Chamber of Wetzlar.

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Upon this Occasion he was engaged in a great Law-Suit, but the Aulic Council gave a Verdict in Favour of the Prince of Rhinfeldts, and the Troops of Hesse Cassel were by an Imperial Commission turn’d out.

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He actually officiates as Vice-President of the Aulic Council of War, and as Privy-Counsellor of the Conferences.

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