The Burgundian treaty of 1548 (ratified on 26 June), also known as the Transaction of Augsburg,[1] settled the status of the Habsburg Netherlands within the Holy Roman Empire.
Essentially the work of Viglius van Aytta, it represents a first step towards the emergence of the Netherlands as an independent territory.
The newly formed administrative division of the empire now united all Burgundian territories, which were no longer subject to the Reichskammergericht.
To ensure that the Burgundian territory now united in the Burgundian Circle would remain under a single administration, Charles V in the following year promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 which declared the Seventeen Provinces[citation needed] of the Netherlands a single indivisible possession not to be divided in future inheritance.
The treaty, written in Neo-Latin, stipulates in Article 15 that the territories mentioned are to become a single unit that will be passed on undivided to the next generations after Charles V (speaking in majestic plural) through hereditary succession: