Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)

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Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede) was a landmark 1495 imperial law of the Holy Roman Empire that permanently outlawed private feuds and aimed to establish a monopoly on legitimate violence under imperial and territorial courts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf imperial law
legal reform
peace ordinance
aimedTo centralize control of violence
permanently outlaw private feuds
strengthen public peace
alsoKnownAs Ewiger Landfriede
Perpetual Public Peace
appliesTo imperial cities
imperial estates
imperial knights
territorial princes
appliesToJurisdiction Holy Roman Empire
characteristic first permanent empire-wide peace ordinance
country Holy Roman Empire
dateEnacted 1495
enforcedBy imperial courts
territorial courts
follows earlier temporary Landfrieden
hasCategory Early modern law
History of the Holy Roman Empire
Medieval law
hasConsequence limitation of feudal nobility’s right to feud
strengthening of imperial judicial institutions
hasLanguage German
hasType public law measure
historicalPeriod early modern period
late Middle Ages
linked to: Late Middle Ages
inception 1495
influenced later imperial peace ordinances
legalDomain public peace law
legalEffect criminalized private warfare among imperial estates
shifted conflict resolution to public courts
legalStatus permanent peace
mainSubject monopoly on legitimate violence
outlawing of private feuds
normativeClaim only public authorities may exercise legitimate force
originalLanguage Early New High German
partOf Reichsreform of 1495
prohibits Fehde (private feud)
self-help violence between estates
promulgatedAt Diet of Worms (1495)
providesFor resolution of conflicts by courts
ratifiedAt Imperial Diet of Worms
relatedTo Reichskammergericht
imperial public peace (Landfriede)
replacedBy judicial settlement of disputes
significance key step in state-building within the Holy Roman Empire
milestone in the formation of a monopoly of violence
temporalCoverage from 1495 onward

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Emperor Maximilian I implementedReform Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)
Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede) relatedTo imperial public peace (Landfriede)
linked to: Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)
Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede) alsoKnownAs Ewiger Landfriede
linked to: Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)
Wormser Reichsreform 1495 hasPart Ewiger Landfriede
subject linked to: Worms Reichsreform 1495
linked to: Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)
Imperial law includes Ewiger Landfriede
linked to: Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)
Imperial Constitution hasComponent Ewiger Landfriede
linked to: Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfriede)