Catholic leaders benefited because the Roman Catholic Church, in order to help them withstand Protestantism, gave them greater access to church resources within their territories. Germany was also less united than before because Germans were no longer of one faith, a situation officially recognized by the Peace of Augsburg. The agreement did not bring sectarian peace, however, because the religious question in Germany had not yet been settled fully.
Danish Intervention After the Defenestration of Prague and the ensuing Bohemian Revolt, the Protestants warred with the Catholic League until the former were firmly defeated at the Battle of Stadtlohn in Peace following the Imperial victory at Stadtlohn proved short-lived, with conflict resuming at the initiation of Denmark.
Christian's mishaps continued when all of the allies he thought he had were forced aside: France was in the midst of a civil war, Sweden was at war with the Polish—Lithuanian Commonwealth, and neither Brandenburg nor Saxony was interested in changes to the tenuous peace in eastern Germany.
Moreover, neither of the substantial British contingents arrived in time to prevent Wallenstein defeating Mansfeld's army at the Battle of Dessau Bridge or Tilly's victory at the Battle of Lutter At this point, the Catholic League persuaded Ferdinand II to take back the Lutheran holdings that were, according to the Peace of Augsburg , rightfully the possession of the Catholic Church.
In , the Peace of Augsburg had settled religious disputes in the Holy Roman Empire by enshrining the principle of Cuius regio, eius religio, allowing a prince to determine the religion of his subjects. As the rebellion collapsed, the widespread confiscation of property and suppression of the Bohemian nobility ensured the country would return to the Catholic side after more than two centuries of Protestant dissent.
Louis XIV and the Huguenots The persecution of the Huguenots became one of the critical factors in Louis XIV's consolidation of royal power and resulted in Catholicism being the only legally tolerated religion in France, despite Louis' conflict with the Pope. It marked the end of the religious wars that had afflicted France during the second half of the 16th century. An additional factor in Louis's thinking was the prevailing contemporary European principle to assure socio-political stability was cuius regio, eius religio "whose realm, his religion" , the idea that the religion of the ruler should be the religion of the realm the principle originally confirmed in central Europe in the Peace of Augsburg of The revocation of the Edict of Nantes created a state of affairs in France similar to that of nearly every other European country of the period with the brief exception of Great Britain and possibly the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , where only the majority state religion was legally tolerated.
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