...the persecution has raged most violently in …
Years: 1629 - 1629
...the persecution has raged most violently in Bonn, his own capital, where the chancellor and his wife and the archbishop’s secretary’s wife are executed, children of three and four years are accused of having devils for their paramours, and students and small boys of noble birth sent to the bonfire.
Locations
People
Groups
- Eichstätt, Prince-Bishopric of
- Mainz, Electoral Archbishopric of
- Bamberg, Prince-Bishopric of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Würzburg, Bishopric of
- Trier, Electoral Archbishop of
- Cologne, Electorate of
- Protestantism
- Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
- Franche-Comté (province of the Spanish Empire)
- Catholic League, the (German)
- Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire
- Baden-Baden, Margravate of
Topics
- Witch trials in the Early Modern period
- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Fulda witch trial
