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Das Buch untersucht die Bedeutung der königlichen Gerichtsbarkeit unter Ludwig dem Bayern für die regionalen Konfliktbeilegungen der Regionen Mittelrhein, Elsass-Oberrhein und Westfalen im deutschen Spätmittelalter. Die Studie stellt die einschlägigen Strukturen der exemplarisch ausgewählten Regionen vor, z.B. Städtebünde, Verbindungen unter Adligen oder hegemoniale Vormächte, und analysiert die jeweiligen konkreten Bemühungen für Konfliktbeilegungen. -- Die Untersuchung ergibt, dass die Einwirkungen der königlichen Gerichtsbarkeit von Region zu Region sehr unterschiedlich sind. Die mittelrheinischen Grafen und Herren etwa sind in der Behandlung ihrer Konflikte eng auf die Gerichtsbarkeit des Herrscherhofs bezogen, während diese für Streitigkeiten in Westfalen kaum relevant ist. / »Royal Jurisdiction and Regional Settlement of Conflict: The Reign of Louis the Bavarian (1314–1347)« -- This book tries to observe actions of royal jurisdiction under Louis the Bavarian in relation to solutions of regional conflicts. About the selected regions, Middlerhine, Alsace-Upperrhine and Westfalia, the study confirms the regional structures, treats concrete efforts for settlement of conflict in the regions and inquires the relations between the jurisdiction at royal court and the regional conflictsolutions.

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This article studies the relationship between the German royal jurisdiction and the clerical privilege about jurisdiction (privilegium fori) from 1273 to 1400. In investigating this it is important to consider that many conflicts in which the clergy participated were decided at the sovereign court through reconciliation and arbitration. From the end of the 13th century to the begin of the 14th century, the privilegium fori was respected in principle at the rulers' courts, but the privilege was invalid when a cleric fell into conflict with the king himself. Especially clerics with good connections to the court – such as the clerical princes – began to submit to the royal jurisdiction. At the end of the reign of the Wittelsbach Louis IV clerical cases were often treated at the sovereign court during a severe confrontation between the emperor and the Curia. At the same time the imperial court tribunal began to be active. From the middle of the 14th century, under the Luxemburg emperor Charles IV, the clerical privileges of the suit and forms of the process at the ruler court developed further. If the court tribunal had accepted lawsuits against the clergy, Charles IV intervened in favor of the defendant. At the end of the 14th century, under Wenceslas, the parties promoted the 'Verrechtlichung' of the Holy Roman Empire in the later middle ages.