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Burkhard Weisbriach Burkhard von Weisbriach (died 1466) was a German Roman Catholic cardinal and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1461 until his death.
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Archbishopric of Salzburg The Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg (German: "Fürsterzbistum Salzburg" ) was an ecclesiastical principality and state of the Holy Roman Empire. It comprised the secular territory ruled by the Archbishops of Salzburg, as distinguished from the much larger Catholic diocese founded in 739 by Saint Boniface in the German stem duchy of Bavaria. The capital of the archbishopric was Salzburg, the former Roman city of "Iuvavum ".
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Bishopric of Lebus The Bishopric of Lebus (German: "Bistum Lebus" ; Polish: "Diecezja lubuska" ) was a Roman Catholic diocese of Poland and later an ecclesiastical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed from 1125 until 1598. The diocese encompassed areas on both sides of the Oder River around the town of Lebus later called Lubusz Land.
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Elector of Mainz The Elector of Mainz was one of the seven  Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire. Both a ruling prince and an archbishop, the Elector of Mainz held a powerful position during the Middle Ages and retained some importance until the dissolution of the empire in 1806. The Elector of Mainz was president of the electoral college, arch-chancellor of the empire and primate of Germany. The origin of the title dates back to 747, when the city of Mainz was made the seat of an archbishop, and a succession of able and ambitious prelates, obtaining lands and privileges from emperors and others, made the district under their rule a strong and vigorous state. Among these men were important figures in the history of Germany such as Hatto I, Siegfried III, Peter of Aspelt, and Albert of Mainz There were several violent contests between rivals anxious to secure so splendid a position as the elector, and the power struggles of the archbishops occasionally moved the citizens of Mainz to revolt. The lands of the elector lay around Mainz, and were on both banks of the Rhine; their area at the time of the French Revolution was about 3200 sq. m. The last elector was Karl Theodor von Dalberg. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803, two years after the lands on the left bank of the Rhine had been seized by France. Some of those on the right bank of the river were given to Kingdom of Prussia and to the Grand Duchy of Hesse; others were formed into a grand duchy for the then Archbishop-Elector Dalberg. The archbishopric itself was transferred to the Principality of Regensburg.
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St. Burchard's Abbey, Würzburg St. Burchard's Abbey, Würzburg, Germany, was a Benedictine monastery, initially known as St. Andrew's Abbey.
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Würzburg Würzburg ( ; ] ; Main-Franconian: "Wörtzburch") is a city in the region of Franconia, northern Bavaria, Germany. Located on the Main River, it is the capital of the "Regierungsbezirk" of Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian.
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Free Imperial City of Ulm The Free Imperial City of Ulm was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. It is situated on the left bank of the Danube, in a fertile plain at the foot of the Swabian Jura.
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Königsbronn Abbey Königsbronn Abbey (Kloster Königsbronn) was a Cistercian monastery in Königsbronn in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Kaiserpfalz The term Kaiserpfalz (] , "imperial palace") or Königspfalz (] , "royal palace", from Middle High German "phal[en]ze" to Old High German "phalanza" from Middle Latin "palatia" [plural] to Latin "palatium" "palace") refers to a number of castles and palaces across the Holy Roman Empire that served as temporary, secondary seats of power for the Holy Roman Emperor in the Early and High Middle Ages. The term was also used more rarely for a bishop who, as a territorial lord ("Landesherr"), had to provide the king and his entourage with board and lodging, a duty referred to as "Gastungspflicht".
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Electorate of Trier The Electorate of Trier (German: "Kurfürstentum Trier" or "Kurtrier "), traditionally known in English by its French name of Trèves, was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the end of the 9th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the temporal possessions of the prince-archbishop of Trier ("Erzbistum Trier "), also prince-elector of the empire. There were only two other ecclesiastical prince-electors in the Empire: the Electorate of Cologne and the Electorate of Mainz, among which Mainz ranked first.
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Principality of Bayreuth The Principality of Bayreuth (German: "Fürstentum Bayreuth" ) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth ("Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth") was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Since Burgrave Frederick VI of Nuremberg was enfeoffed with the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415/17, the Hohenzollern princes transferred the margravial title to their Franconian possessions, though the principality never had been a march. Until 1604 they used Plassenburg Castle in Kulmbach as their residence, hence their territory was officially called the Principality of Kulmbach or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach until the Empire's dissolution in 1806.
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Free Imperial City of Besançon The Free Imperial City of Besançon was a self-governing city that was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Free Imperial City of Nuremberg The Imperial City of Nuremberg (German: "Reichsstadt Nürnberg" ) was a free imperial city — independent city-state — within the Holy Roman Empire. After Nuremberg gained piecemeal independence from the Burgraviate of Nuremberg in the High Middle Ages and considerable territory from Bavaria in the Landshut War of Succession, it grew to become one of the largest and most important Imperial cities, the 'unofficial capital' of the Empire, particularly because Imperial Diets ("Reichstage ") and courts met at Nuremberg Castle. The Diets of Nuremberg were an important part of the administrative structure of the Empire. The Golden Bull of 1356, issued by Emperor Charles IV (reigned 1346–78), named Nuremberg as the city where newly elected kings of Germany must hold their first Imperial Diet, making Nuremberg one of the three highest cities of the Empire.
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Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (German: "Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers" ) is a Lutheran church body "(Landeskirche)" in the German state of Lower Saxony and the city of Bremerhaven covering the territory of the former Kingdom of Hanover.
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Ferdinand of Bavaria (bishop) Ferdinand of Bavaria (German: "Ferdinand von Bayern" ) (6 October 1577 – 13 September 1650) was Prince-elector archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne (Holy Roman Empire) from 1612 to 1650, as successor of Ernest of Bavaria. He was also prince-bishop of Hildesheim, Liège, Münster, and Paderborn.
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Metropolis of Nicaea The Metropolis of Nicaea (Greek: Μητρόπολις Νικαίας ), was an ecclesiastical province (since the mid-4th century a metropolitan bishopric) of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the city of Nicaea in the province of Bithynia (now Iznik in Turkey). A prestigious see due to its proximity to the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and the location of two Ecumenical Councils in 325 and 787, the metropolitan see of Nicaea remained important until its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1331. The Christian element in the diocese diminished rapidly after that, with the flight of the Greek population and the Islamization of the remainder. As a result, the seat of the diocese was moved to Cius. The metropolis remained active until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s. It remains a titular see of the Patriarchate of Constantinople as well as being, since the mid-15th century, a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Rhenish Franconia Rhenish Franconia (German: "Rheinfranken" ) or Western Franconia ("Westfranken") denotes the western half of the central German stem duchy of Franconia in the 10th and 11th century, with its residence at the city of Worms. The territory located on the banks of Rhine river roughly corresponded with the present-day state of Hesse and the adjacent Palatinate region in the south.
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Prince-abbot A Prince-Abbot (German: "Fürstabt" ) is a title for a cleric who is a Prince of the Church (like a Prince-Bishop), in the sense of an "ex officio" temporal lord of a feudal entity, notably a State of the Holy Roman Empire. The secular territory ruled by the head of an abbey is known as Prince-Abbacy or Abbey-principality. The holder, however, does not hold the ecclesiastical office of a Bishop.
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Ansbach Ansbach ( ; ] ) is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is 25 mi southwest of Nuremberg and 90 mi north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat (Rezat River), a tributary of the Main river. In 2004, its population was 40,723.
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Archbishopric of Bremen The Archdiocese of Bremen (also "Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen", German: "Erzbistum Bremen" , not to be confused with the modern Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994) is a historical Roman Catholic diocese (787–1566/1648) and formed from 1180 to 1648 an ecclesiastical state (continued under other names until 1823), named Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (German: "Erzstift Bremen" ) within the Holy Roman Empire. The prince-archbishopric consisted of about a third of the diocesan territory. The city of Bremen was "de facto" (since 1186) and "de jure" (since 1646) not part of the prince-archbishopric but belonged to the archdiocese. Most of the prince-archbishopric lay rather in the area to the north of the "city of Bremen", between the Weser and Elbe rivers. Even more confusingly, parts of the prince-archbishopric belonged in religious respect to the neighbouring "diocese of Verden", making up 10% of its diocesan territory.
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Kingdom of Germany The Kingdom of Germany or German Kingdom (Latin: "Regnum Teutonicum" , "Teutonic Kingdom"; German: "Deutsches Reich" ) developed out of the eastern half of the former Carolingian Empire. Like Anglo-Saxon England and medieval France, it began as "a conglomerate, an assemblage of a number of once separate and independent... "gentes" [peoples] and "regna" [kingdoms]." East Francia ("Ostfrankenreich") was formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843, and was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911, after which the kingship was elective. The initial electors were the rulers of the stem duchies, who generally chose one of their own. After 962, when Otto I was crowned emperor, the kingdom formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire, which also included Italy (after 951), Bohemia (after 1004) and Burgundy (after 1032).
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Residenz Residenz (] ) is a formal but otherwise obsolete German word for "place of living". It is in particular used to denote the building or town where a sovereign ruler resided, therefore also carrying a similar meaning as the modern expressions "seat of government" or "capital". As there were many sovereign (imperially immediate) rulers in the Holy Roman Empire, ranking from Lord (Herr) to prince elector and king, there are many towns, palaces, and castles in this territory which used to be a Residenz and are partially still so referred to today. The former residenz status of a town is frequently reflected by the architecture of its center. During the baroque period especially, many prestigious buildings were erected, sometimes even new towns were founded. Today former residenz towns mostly still serve as cultural and administrative centers.