The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized to suppress
World". Allerhöchste Pragmatikal-Verordnung vom 11. August 1804. In: OttoPosse: Die Siegel der Deutschen Kaiser und Könige. (The Seals of German Emperors
Dukes of Lower Bavaria (Henry XIV, Otto IV, and Henry XV) was entrusted to Frederick, even though the late Duke Otto III, the former King of Hungary, had
his age was found. Otto of Brunswick had been crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Innocent III in October 1209. In southern Italy, Otto became the champion
further developed by German scholars including Hermann Grotefend and OttoPosse, and French scholars including Louis Douët d'Arcq and Germain Demay. Sigillography