This mediatizing system was known by the name of "congruism."
The views which he expressed in his commentary on the pseudo-Boetian treatise, De Trinitate, are certainly much more important than the mediatizing systems already referred to.
In 1806 the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine involved an extension of this mediatizing process, though the abolition of the empire itself deprived the word "mediatization" of its essential meaning.
Their past has been stormy, and their ruler has attained power after defeating and mediatizing a more ancient dynasty of his own kindred.
