Quotes About Frederick III

In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

The situation in which a monarch or city council controlled the pace of reform came to be known as Erastianism, after Thomas Erastus, a learned physician in Heidelberg who, during a dispute in that city in the late 1550s between various Protestant factions, urged Frederick III of the Palatinate to pacify the situation by taking control of the church into his own hands.