Treaty of Frankfurt (1539)
The Treaty of Frankfurt (also spelled Treaty of Frankfort),[1] also known as the Truce of Frankfurt,[2] was a formal agreement of peace between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Protestants on 19 April 1539. The parties met at Frankfurt-on-the-Main,[3] and the Lutherans were represented by Philip Melancthon.[4] The treaty stated that the emperor would not take any violent actions against the Protestants, who had formed an alliance known as the Schmalkaldic League, for fifteen months starting 1 May;[3] during this time both parties could try and resolve the differences in their confessions. As a result of this peace, the Schmalkaldic League lost the protection of France.[3]
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Bibliography
- Armstrong, Edward (1902). The Emperor Charles V. Macmillian.
- Hagenbach, Karl Rudolph (1879). History of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland. trans. Evelina Moore.
- Smith, Henry Preserved (1920). The Age of the Reformation. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
- Smith, Henry Preserved (1914). The Life and Letters of Martin Luther. Houghton Mifflin company.
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