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	Reichsfreiheit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit (adjectives reichsfrei, reichsunmittelbar) was a special, privileged status a city or region could attain in the Holy Roman Empire.
		A reichsfrei city or territory was under the direct authority of the emperor, without any intermediary liege lords.
		Advantages were that reichsfrei regions had the right to collect taxes and tolls themselves, and held juridical rights themselves.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/re/reichsfreiheit.html (94 words)

	The Tyrolean Landesknecht Sword
		The Eidgenossenschaft of the Swiss, as the confederacy was called, began as an alliance between the communities of the valleys in the central Alps to facilitate the management of common interests, such as free trade and to ensure the peace along the important trade routes through the mountains.
		In the late Middle Ages, this region belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, and because of its strategic importance the Hohenstaufen emperors had granted it reichsfrei status in the early 13th century.
		As reichsfrei regions, the cantons (or regions) of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden were under the direct authority of the emperor, without any intermediate liege lords, and thus were largely autonomous.
	www.albion-swords.com /swords/albion/nextgen/sword-landesknecht-tyrolean.htm (636 words)

	Reichsfreiheit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit (adjectives reichsfrei, reichsunmittelbar) was a privileged feudal and political status, a form of statehood, which a city, religious entity or feudal principality of minor lordship could attain within the Holy Roman Empire.
		A reichsfrei city, abbey or territory was under the direct authority of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Imperial Diet, without any intermediary Liege lord(s).
		Advantages were that reichsfrei regions had the right to collect taxes and tolls themselves, and held juridical rights (including the Blutgericht, 'high' justice including capital punishment) themselves.
	tags.lyricsfreak.com /reichsfrei (174 words)

	Old Swiss Confederacy at Decipedia.com — The simple online encyclopedia!
		The Swiss Eidgenossenschaft (originally, of Schwyz, after the most prominent founding member), as the confederacy was called, began as an alliance between the communities of the valleys in the central Alps to facilitate the management of common interests such as free trade and to ensure the peace along the important trade routes through the mountains.
		As reichsfrei regions, the cantons (or regions) of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden were under the direct authority of the emperor without any intermediate liege lords and thus were largely autonomous.
		The two strategically important cities—they offered the only two fortified bridges over the river Rhine between Constance and Basel—not only struggled with the robber barons from the neighbouring Hegau region but also were under pressure from the Habsburg dukes, who sought to re-integrate the cities into their domain.
	www.decipedia.com /article/Old_Swiss_Confederacy (5263 words)

	Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy began as an alliance between the communities of the valleys in the central Alps to facilitate the management of common interests such as free trade and to ensure the peace along the important trade routes through the mountains.
		In the late Middle Ages, this region belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, and because of its strategic importance the Hohenstaufen emperors had granted it reichsfrei status in the early thirteenth century.
		A large part became Bernese, while the County of Baden was subsequently administered by the confederation as a common property until 1798.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Growth_of_the_Old_Swiss_Confederacy (5422 words)

	Reichsunmittelbar info here at en.assessment-development-training.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit (adjectives reichsfrei, reichsunmittelbar) was a privileged feudal and political status, a embodiment of statehood, which a city, religious creature or feudal principality of subjacent lordship could complete inside the Holy Roman Empire.
		A reichsfrei city, abbey or territory was underneath the unambiguous authority of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Imperial Diet, out-of-doors whatever intermediary Liege lord(s).
		Advantages were that reichsfrei stompings ground had the requisite to compose taxes and tolls themselves, and held juridical rights (including the Blutgericht, 'high' justice together with capital punishment) themselves.
	en.assessment-development-training.info /Reichsunmittelbar (261 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
		Imperial immediacy (German: reichsfreiheit or reichsunmittelbarkeit) was a privileged feudal and political status, a form of statehood, which a city, religious entity or feudal principality of minor lordship could attain within the Holy Roman Empire.
		A reichsfrei city, abbey or territory was under the direct authority of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Imperial Diet, without any intermediary liege lord(s).
		Advantages were that reichsfrei regions had the right to collect taxes and tolls themselves, and held juridical rights (including the Blutgericht, 'high' justice including capital punishment) themselves.
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Reichsfreiheit (191 words)

	Štajerska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Die Untersteiermark liegt zwischen der unteren Mur und der oberen Save.
		Die Gebiete der Untersteiermark waren während des Mittelalters im Besitz verschiedener Adelsfamilien, deren wichtigste nicht Vasallen der steirischen Herzöge sondern reichsfrei waren.
		Relativ eigenständig waren die Grafschaft hinter dem Drauwald um Marburg an der Drau und die Grafschaft Cilli.
	reisewiki.net /slowenien/stajerska.html (159 words)

	German Society at the Close of The Middle Ages by E. Belfort Bax
		When their immediate lord was a prince, the area of whose feudal jurisdiction was more extensive, his rule was less oppressively felt, and their condition was therefore considerably improved.
		It was only, however, when cities were “free of the Empire”; (Reichsfrei) that they attained the ideal of mediaeval civic freedom.
		It follows naturally from the conditions described that there was, in the first place, a conflict between the primitive inhabitants as embodied in their corporate society and the territorial lord, whoever he might be.
	www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1894/german-society/introduction.htm (6050 words)

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