The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by the Imperial Diet meeting at Nuremberg and Metz under Emperor Charles IV, its first twenty-three chapters dated 10 January 1356 and its remaining eight chapters dated 25 December 1356. Named for the golden seal it carried, it fixed important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire, above all the franchise of the seven prince-electors who chose the King of the Romans, for a period of more than four hundred years. In June 2013 it was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
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