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
white fusils. In his book, Die Siegel der Deutschen Kaiser und Könige, OttoPosse describes seals of the Electoral Palatine Imperial Vicariate: 1558: The
further developed by German scholars including Hermann Grotefend and OttoPosse, and French scholars including Louis Douët d'Arcq and Germain Demay. Sigillography