electorship

Whether she was the one to take over the Electorship remained to be seen.

In 1692 he was appointed prince-elector by the Emperor; however, the electorship did not come into effect until 1708.

November 27, 1974 - Revised electorship to be a "right," not a "privilege."

Walter III was giving particular emphasis to these Founder's Day celebrations, the first under his electorship.

His father, as part of the conditions he had to fulfil to acquire an electorship, had altered the family traditions of inheritance from Ultimogeniture to primogeniture.

The senior Ernestine branch lost the electorship to the Albertine in 1547, but retained its holdings in Thuringia, dividing the area into a number of smaller states.

The Eltz family reached their greatest influence under the Electorship of Philipp Karl zu Eltz (b. 1665).

Carlo Grua (ca. 1700-1773) was Kapellmeister at the court of Mannheim under the Electorship of Karl III Philip.

For the next six years, his supporters fought those of the Catholic cathedral chapter for the right to hold the electorship and the archdiocese in the so-called Cologne War or Seneschal War.

In 1683, against the protestations of his five younger sons, Ernest Augustus instituted primogeniture, so that his territory would not be further subdivided after his death, and also as a pre-condition for obtaining the coveted electorship.

After the Hanover subdivision of the duchy had received a new prince-electorship from the Emperor in 1692, tensions between the two states rose, as both Anthony Ulrich and Rudolph Augustus were dismayed that they had not received the electorship.