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The document Fidem catholicam is an imperial mandate sanctioning and legally justifying the abolition of the kingship of the right to approve Edit content source text

The mandate of August 6, 1338, declares the Pope's actions against Emperor Ludwig the Bavarians void and justifies with arguments from canonical and Roman law the legal consequences arising from the electoral election of the electors. Under threat of the removal of fiefs, offices and privileges, the Reich's members ordered the Reichs to ignore excommunications and imposed interdicts. Meaning Edit source text

The document Fidem catholicam was created under the prevailing participation of the spiritualists (Wilhelm von Ockham, Michael von Cesena, Marsilius of Padua, Bonagratia of Bergamo) who had been persecuted and excommunicated in the armistice of the Papacy. Together with the resolutions of the Kurverein zu Rhense and Louis IV Licet iuris, it forms the legal basis for the dissolution of the legitimacy of imperial power from the approval of the pope. His conclusion is the emancipation process of secular power in the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV of 1356. Edit source text

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