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People: Francisco Álvares
Topic: Muslim Revolt of 699-701
Location: Wimborne Minster Dorset United Kingdom

The Swiss have not accepted the resolutions …

Years: 1496 - 1496

The Swiss have not accepted the resolutions of the Imperial Diet, and they explicitly refuse to pay the common penny.

They have no interest whatsoever in sending troops to serve in an army under Habsburg authority, nor in paying taxes, nor will they accept any foreign court's jurisdiction; and they have succeeded in securing public peace within their territories reasonably well by themselves.

They simply consider the whole proposal a curtailing of their freedom.

The Swiss are by far not the only members of the empire who refuse to accept the resolutions, but Maximilian will use their refusal later as a pretext to place the Swiss Confederacy under an imperial ban (Reichsacht).