After 1530, when Emperor Charles V attempted to quench the growing Lutheran heresy, the Lutheran princes banded together in 1532 in the Schmalking League, and between 1546 and 1555 a sporadic war was waged, eventually culminating in the compromise in 1555, the Peace of Augsburg, which allowed each prince to decide the religion of his subjects, forbade all sects of Protestantism other than Lutheranism, and ordered all Catholic bishops to give up their property if they turned Lutheran.
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