The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by the Reichstag assembly in Nuremberg and Metz headed by the Luxembourg Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire. It was named the Golden Bull for the golden seal it carried.
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