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of Utrecht meant the loss of territory in the Low Countries. In the late 17th century
Louis XIV secularized its possessions in France. In 1801 the Treaty of Luneville
stripped the order of its German possession on the left bank of the Rhine. In 1809
the emperor Napoleon, at war with Austria, declared the order to be dissolved and
distributed most of its remaining lands among other principalities.
The Austrian revival.
The Catholic Teutonic Order was formally abolished by Napoleon Bonaparte in
1809, but later restored in 1834 by the Hapsburg who wanted to regain the original
Chivalric Order adopting the rule of the 1606.
In February 17, 1806, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Francis II and
Emperor of Austria (with the name of Francis I), recognized his brother Anton
Viktor von Österreich Habsburgo as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order,
confirming the provisions of the Treaty of Pressburg.
The Sovereign status recognized in the Treaty of Pressburg provided that the title of
Grand Master was to be attributed to a prince of the House of Austria, but this
would be a limited sovereignty, as subject to "Head of the Imperial House of
Austria."
December 12, 1810. The rights, pensions and dignity of the Hochmeister were
attributed to the Emperor of Austria, who made it to the Teutonic Order solemn
head. The headquarters of the Order was transferred to Vienna.
On March 8, 1834, Prince Grand Master Anton Viktor von Österreich Habsburgo
convinced his brother, Emperor Francis II, to invalidate the capitolar of Pressburg
and reinstate the Teutonic Order as an autonomous institute religious-military and
direct feudal to the Empire, confirming so, the nature of sovereign
untidy according the laws of the medieval Holy Roman Empire.
The existing Knights were confirmed in their location, those already accepted as
novices were allowed to continue his novitiate, but it significantly changed the law
of the Grand Master, prospective candidates for the novitiate could not succeed
without the Imperial consent. No attempt to consult the Holy See was done even if
this act was a violation of canon law.
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