Definition of Electorship. Meaning of Electorship. Synonyms of Electorship

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Definition of Electorship

Electorship
Electorship E*lect"or*ship, n. The office or status of an elector.

Meaning of Electorship from wikipedia

- the electorship. After the Battle of Mühlberg, Johann Friedrich der Großmütige, had to cede territory (including Wittenberg) and the electorship to his...
- after his death, and also as a pre-condition for obtaining the coveted electorship. He parti****ted in the Great Turkish War on the side of Leopold I, Holy...
- Ernestine cousin John Frederick I and the Imperial promise of the Saxon electorship, then held by John Frederick. In the Holy W**** of 1542, in the process...
- (c. 1700–1773) was Kapellmeister at the court of Mannheim under the Electorship of Charles III Philip. Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) was Kapellmeister...
- Calenberg. After the Ernest Augustus had received the new ninth prince-electorship from Emperor Leopold I in 1692 and went on to rule as Elector of Hanover...
- Frederick I was defeated in the Schmalkaldic War, the electoral district and electorship p****ed to the Albertine line. They remained electors until the dissolution...
- Brunswick-Lüneburg 22 November 1682 Celle (annulled 1694) two children The electorship became effective under his rule. In 1705 reunited his father-in-law's...
- His father, as part of the conditions he had to fulfil to acquire an electorship, had adopted primogeniture, thus disinheriting younger sons. Unlike his...
- Brunswick-Lüneburg 22 November 1682 Celle (annulled 1694) two children The electorship became effective under his rule. In 1705 reunited his father-in-law's...
- prince-electors. Moreover, most of the German fiefs in the Empire (except electorships) were heritable by all males of a family rather than by primogeniture...