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Since the late xvith century, the Curia saw princely conversions as a starting point for regaining those territories lost by the Church of Rome due to the Reformation. The conversion of a reigning prince seemed to give the opportunity of winning the subjects together with the prince, « whose example might move many others’ », as argued the nuncio of Cologne in 1612, on the occasion of the conversion of the Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm of Neuburg. This was a very common view in Rome and rem... |
