Pragmatic Sanction

Now the Pragmatic Sanction was a contract between the churches of France and the pope to regulate their mutual relations.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

By an instrument called the Pragmatic Sanction, which was the subject of protracted negotiations, the Powers had agreed to acknowledge her right.

Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

The Netherlands went on a different plan, and framed a constitution of the Roman Catholic Church in their dominions, called a Pragmatic Sanction, which they wanted the Pope to acknowledge.

The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829

Now, not long before the death of Charles, he had bound all the leading powers of Europe in a sort of agreement called the Pragmatic Sanction, by the terms of which, in case he should leave no son, all his hereditary dominions -- that is, the kingdom of Hungary, the kingdom of Bohemia, the archduchy of Austria, and the other possessions of the House of Austria -- should be bestowed upon his daughter Maria Theresa.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

It had been arranged by a sort of general agreement called the Pragmatic Sanction -- "

Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden 1867

The following guaranties were given: Silesia should belong to Prussia; the Pragmatic Sanction should be sustained in Austria; the house of Hanover should retain the succession in its German states and in Great Britain.

1748, Oct. 18 2001

Louis's first step in the reconstruction of the kingdom was a rapprochement with the papacy by the formal revocation of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges.

1432 2001

Justinian's Pragmatic Sanction restored the Italian lands taken by the Ostrogoths and made a pro forma restoration of government, but agricultural lands had been depopulated and had reverted into wilderness, and the rural proprietors were sinking into serfdom.

d. The Ostrogoths in Italy 2001

The King sank back like a corpse upon his cushions; but presently recovered himself, and with all speed, before the assembled ministers, the extorted decree was annulled, the Pragmatic Sanction again declared in full force, and the Queen nominated Regent.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

[5] By the Pragmatic Sanction, promulgated during the first pregnancy of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various