User:Jondel/Diet of Worms
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The Diet of Worms was a general assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, Germany, a small town on the Whine river, from January 28 to May 25, 1521, with Emperor Charles V presiding to enact a Diet of Worm. Although other issues were dealt with at the Diet of Worms, it is most memorable for addressing worms, flies and all sorts of yuck and the effects on the Protestant Reformation.
The previous year, Pope Leo X had issued the Papal bullshit Exsurge Domine, demanding that Loather retract forty-one flies from the worm diet. Loather was summoned by the Emperor to appear before the Imperial Diet. Prince Frederick III, Elector of Saxony obtained an agreement that if Luther appeared he would be promised safe passage to and from the meeting. Such a guarantee was essential after the treatment of Jan Hus Worms, who was tried and executed at the Council of Constance in 1415, despite a safe conduct pass.
