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| Keywords: Marchtal Immediate and Exempt 1748.jpg en Introductory paragraph of an administrative document dated 1748 by Abbot Edmund II of the Imperial Abbey of Marchtal also Marchthal Obermarchtal in Swabia <br> The words IMMEDIATE and EXEMPT are emphasized to stress the fact that the abbey is an Imperial Estate and therefore immediate to the Empire and Emperor Reich und Kaiser and exempt from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop Like some 40 other Imperial abbots and abbesses of the Holy Roman Empire the Abbot of Marchtal had seat and voice in the Imperial Diet where he sat on the Bench of the Prelates of Swabia Cropped from a Commons document File Schulordnung Marchtal 1748 jpg 2013-05-14 09 56 08 Commons wikipedia File Schulordnung Marchtal 1748 jpg Abbot Edmund II 1748 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Imperial abbeys Holy Roman Empire | ||||
