Bremen-Verden demanded that the Chapter of Bremen allow him to enter the Prince-Archbishopric and while the Chapter declared its loyalty to the Emperor, it delayed an answer to the request, arguing that it had to consult in a diet with the Estates, which would be a lengthy procedure.
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Bremen-Verden had been won by French diplomacy to join a new anti-imperial coalition, soon joined by the United Netherlands.
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Bremen-Verden succeeded his late father on the Danish throne as Frederick III of Denmark in 1648.
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Bremen-Verden provided Sweden a strategic advantage, because it would participate with them in recruiting and financing armies in two imperial circles already covering all of the northern and north-western parts of the Holy Roman Empire, with Swedish Pomerania, a member in the Upper Saxon Circle, covering the Empire's North East.
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Bremen-Verden turned from two elective monarchies into a hereditary double monarchy, with a personal rule of the prince-bishop or administrator exchanged for a viceregent government bound by Swedish instructions.
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In 1650 Charles Gustav, Hereditary Duke of the Palatinate of Zweibrucken-Kleeburg, since 1649 declared and 1650 recognised heir to the Swedish throne and thereby simultaneously to Bremen-Verden's dukedoms, came to Stade for interlocutions of unknown content.
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Bremen-Verden wasn't streamlined as to its jurisdiction and its military system, but the latter strictly subjected to Stockholms generalty.
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Bremen-Verden's Estates lost more and more influence, they less and less often convened.
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Since Bremen-Verden had turned Hanoverian, it never again sent its own representatives to a Diet.
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In 1730, Bremen-Verden's government was reorganised and retitled as Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lunenburgian Privy Council for Governing the Duchies of Bremen and Verden, which colloquially turned into the "Royal Government".
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Bremen-Verden remained unaffected for the rest of the war and after its end peace prevailed until the French Revolutionary Wars started.
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