These people were organized into the Eternal League of God by a preacher of Saint Katharine’s Church. Peter Blickle’s 1975 book about an event concerning these people focused on a document drafted in Memmingen. The Black Company unit of these people was led by Florian Geyer. The Armer Konrads were largely composed of these people, many of whom raised the Bundschuh (“BOOND-shoo”) flag. These people demanded the abolition of the Todfall inheritance tax in their Twelve Articles. Philip of Hesse defeated a militia of these people at Frankenhausen, after which one of its leaders was executed in Thuringia. Martin Luther infamously called these people “murderous, thieving hordes.” For 10 points, Thomas Müntzer led what peoples in a namesake 1520s war against the Holy Roman Empire? ■END■
ANSWER: German peasants [or German peasantry; or Bauer; accept German Peasants’ War; accept farmers; or serfs; or agriculturalists; prompt on Protestants or Anabaptists by asking “what social class did they mostly belong to?” prompt on the lower class or the poor; prompt on rebels or militias or soldiers; prompt on subjects or citizens; prompt on Germans]
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