Sacred Lordship of Ratzeburg — Lake Territory and Temple State
Sacred Lordship of Ratzeburg
- Coat of arms – The established Ratzeburg territorial arms
- Status – Sacred lordship and imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire
- Principal Town – Ratzeburg
- Languages – Low Saxon and German, with regional speech around the lake country
- Sacred traditions – Regional divine cults, household rites, ancestral obligations, lake powers and temple customs
- Government – Elective sacred principality governed by a temple ruler chosen through the lordship’s sacred college and territorial elite
- Law – Temple judgements, estate rights, town custom and imperial obligations overlap
- 1454 Succession – Johann Prohl dies in March; Johann von Preen succeeds later in the year, making the transition itself an immediate political pressure
- Other Notable Residents – Temple jurists, estate officers, merchants, lake pilots, household retainers and envoys from neighbouring powers
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