Footnote

b For example, about the year 785 C.E., Charlemagne issued an edict that imposed the death penalty on people in Saxony who refused to be baptized as Christians. Also, the Peace of Augsburg, signed in 1555 C.E. by warring factions in the Holy Roman Empire, stipulated that each territorial ruler must be either Roman Catholic or Lutheran and that everyone under his rule had to adopt his religion. Those who refused to adhere to the ruler’s religion were required to emigrate.