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Prussian Tribute
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During the Reformation endemic religious upheavals and wars occurred, and on February 10, 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert of Prussia, a member of a cadet branch of the house of Hohenzollern, resigned his position, became a Protestant and received the title "Duke of Prussia" from Sigismund I King of Poland, Great Duke of Lithuania and imperial duke of Silesia in the act called Prussian Tribute. In a deal partially brokered by Martin Luther (under imperial ban since 1521), Ducal Prussia became the first Protestant state, along the lines of the later religious Peace of Augsburg.
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