Brewer's: Golden Bull

An edict by the Emperor Charles IV., issued at the Diet of Nuremberg in 1356, for the purpose of fixing how the German emperors were to be elected. (See Bull.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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