Evangelical Union

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The Evangelical Union was a coalition of Protestant German states formed in the early 17th century to defend their religious and political interests during the tensions leading up to the Thirty Years’ War.

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Evangelical Union canonical 1
Union of Evangelical Estates 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Protestant military alliance
political alliance
religious league
alsoKnownAs Protestant Union
Evangelical Union
surface form: Union of Evangelical Estates
country Holy Roman Empire
dissolved 1621
endTime 1621
formedDuring confessional tensions in the Holy Roman Empire
hasEffect contributed to outbreak of the Thirty Years' War
intensification of confessional polarization in the Holy Roman Empire
hasMember Anhalt
Baden-Durlach
Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach
surface form: Brandenburg-Ansbach

Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach
surface form: Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Electoral Palatinate
surface form: Electorate of the Palatinate

Free Imperial City of Augsburg
Free Imperial City of Biberach
Free Imperial City of Biedenkopf
Free Imperial City of Braunfels
Colmar
surface form: Free Imperial City of Colmar

Free Imperial City of Dillenburg
Free Imperial City of Donauwörth
Free Imperial City of Eppstein
Imperial City of Esslingen
surface form: Free Imperial City of Esslingen

Free City of Frankfurt
surface form: Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main

Imperial City of Friedberg
surface form: Free Imperial City of Friedberg

Imperial City of Gelnhausen
surface form: Free Imperial City of Gelnhausen

Free Imperial City of Giengen
Free Imperial City of Hachenburg
Free Imperial City of Hagenau
Free Imperial City of Heilbronn
Free Imperial City of Herborn
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
surface form: Free Imperial City of Idstein

Free Imperial City of Isny
Free Imperial City of Kempten
Free Imperial City
surface form: Free Imperial City of Kirberg

Free Imperial City of Lahnstein
Free Imperial City of Lindau
Free Imperial City of Memmingen
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
surface form: Free Imperial City of Merenberg

Free Imperial City of Nassau-Weilburg
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
surface form: Free Imperial City of Neuweilnau

Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
Imperial City of Offenburg
surface form: Free Imperial City of Offenburg

Free Imperial City of Pfullendorf
Free Imperial City of Ravensburg
Free Imperial City of Regensburg
Free Imperial City of Reutlingen
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
surface form: Free Imperial City of Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Free Imperial City of Rottweil
Free Imperial City
surface form: Free Imperial City of Schlettstadt

Free Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd
Free Imperial City of Schwäbisch Hall
Siegen
surface form: Free Imperial City of Siegen

Free Imperial City of Sonnenberg
Free Imperial City of Speyer
free imperial city of Strasbourg
surface form: Free Imperial City of Strasbourg

Free Imperial City of Ulm
Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt
Free Imperial City of Weilburg
Imperial City of Wetzlar
surface form: Free Imperial City of Wetzlar

Free Imperial City of Wimpfen
Free Imperial City of Windsheim
Free Imperial City of Worms
Free Imperial City of Überlingen
Nassau-Beilstein
Nassau-Dillenburg
Nassau-Hadamar
Nassau-Idstein
Nassau-Katzenelnbogen
Nassau-Saarbrücken
surface form: Nassau-Ottweiler

Nassau-Saarbrücken
Nassau-Siegen
Nassau-Usingen
Nassau-Weilburg
Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Biedenkopf

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Braunfels

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Dillenburg

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Eppstein

Nassau-Weilburg-Hachenburg
Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Kirberg

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Lahnstein

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Lower Weid

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Merenberg

County of Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Neuweilnau

Nassau-Weilburg
surface form: Nassau-Weilburg-Oberlahnstein

Nassau-Weilburg-Sonnenberg
Nassau-Weilnau
Nassau-Wiesbaden
Württemberg
hasPurpose defense of Protestant estates
defense of political rights of Protestant princes
protection of religious freedoms
historicalPeriod early 17th century
inception 14 May 1608
leader Frederick IV, Elector Palatine
Frederick V, Elector Palatine
locationOfFormation Auhausen
surface form: Ahausen
opposedBy Catholic League
House of Habsburg
reasonForDissolution lack of unity among members
military defeats of Protestant forces
pressure from the Holy Roman Emperor
religion Calvinism
Lutheranism
Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
significantEvent formation in response to the re-Catholicization of Donauwörth
involvement in the early phase of the Thirty Years' War
startTime 1608

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Protestant Union hasAlternativeName Evangelical Union
Evangelical Union alsoKnownAs Evangelical Union
this entity surface form: Union of Evangelical Estates