Habsburg Spain , wishing to finally crush Bodily_harm the Dutch rebels in the Netherlands and the Dutch Republic ( which was de facto independent since 1581 but de jure still a part of the Holy Roman Empire ) , intervened under the pretext of helping its dynastic Habsburg ally , Austria .

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a territorial and ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Quarreling region of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding Surrounding districts , which are `` de facto '' controlled Control by the self-declared Republic of Artsakh , but are internationally recognized Know as `` de jure '' part of Azerbaijan .

Now legal in the `` de jure '' sense , it was to apply Giving to all the territories of the Empire except for the Ecclesiastical principalities , and some of the cities in those ecclesiastical states , where the question of religion was addressed Statement under the separate Forming_relationships principles of the `` reservatum ecclesiasticum '' and the `` Declaratio Ferdinandei '' , which were also part of the Peace of Augsburg .

Finally , `` de facto '' independence Change_of_leadership came in 1867 , with the withdrawal Escaping of Ottoman garrisons from the principality ; `` de jure '' independence was formally recognized Know at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 .

The Swedish invasion confirmed Check the role of Holy Roman Emperor as a ceremonial , de jure position within the constitution Legal_rulings of the Holy Roman Empire .