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unusual facts about Prince Bishop



Jesuit Church, Mannheim

It was completed in 1760 and consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier by the Prince Bishop of Augsburg, Joseph of Hesse-Darmstadt.


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Albero I of Louvain

After the suspicious death of Prince-Bishop Frederick of Liege in 1121, Holy Roman Emperor Henry V appointed Alexander of Jülich as his successor.

Alessandro Poglietti

Poglietti also had friends among Austrian nobility, among them Count Anton Franz von Collalto and Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc—in 1672 Poglietti inherited estates near their residences.

Aufseß

Notable members of the family include Jobst Bernhard von und zu Aufsees, the founder of the Aufseesianum in Bamberg, Friedrich III von Aufseß, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (1421–1431), and Hans von und zu Aufseß, who in 1852 was the principal founder of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (formerly the "Germanischen Museums“) in Nuremberg.

Bartholomäus Herder

In 1801, during the turbulent period prior to the dissolution of the old German Empire, he began his career, at the instance of the Prince-Bishop (soon afterwards Prince Primate) Karl Theodor von Dalberg, in the capacity of "publisher to the princely episcopal court of Constance", at Meersburg on the Lake of Constance, the episcopal residence and seat of a seminary.

Basilius Besler

He was curator of the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria.

Bishopric of Eichstätt

His successors achieved the status of a Prince-Bishop, when they inherited the Franconian territories of their former Vogt officials, the extinct Counts of Hirschberg (at Hirschberg Castle in the present-day town of Beilngries).

Braniewo

The town suffered from warfare and the church tower was not rebuilt until 1544, when Prince-Bishop Johannes Dantiscus ordered 20 zentners' weight of copper from Anton Fugger in Augsburg.

Burg Meersburg

The Crow-stepped gable (a stepped roof line instead of a smooth roof line) on the tower was added by the Constance Prince-Bishop Hugo von Hohenlandenberg (Served 1496–1532).

Cardinal de Soubise

Cardinal François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris - 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.

Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1749, he automatically became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and became commendatory abbot of the great Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu that same year, giving up that of Saint-Epvre.

Carpoforo Tencalla

Episcopal palace of the Prince-Bishop Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1664–1695) in Kroměříž: the architect was his brother Giovanni P. Tencalla, who invited him to do extensive frescoes and paintings.

César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck

The son of Ulric Antoine de Hoensbroeck (whose family originated in the village of Hoensbroeck, now in Dutch Limburg), he studied at Heidelberg and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Aachen Cathedral before becoming prince bishop of Liege in 1784, succeeding François-Charles de Velbrück, whose progressive reforms he tried to undo.

Cisrhenian Republic

Under the terms of the Peace of Basel in 1795, the Kingdom of Prussia had been compelled to cede all her territories west of the Rhine, and together with the west-Rhenish territories of the Prince-Bishops of Trier, Mainz and Cologne, the Electorate of the Palatinate, the duchies of Jülich and Cleves, and the free city of Aachen they were combined into the short-lived Cisrhenian Republic under the rule of a "Protector" Louis Lazare Hoche, a French general.

Colloredo-Mansfeld

Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo (1732–1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 and last Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1771 until 1803, when the Archbishopric was secularized.

Danilo I

Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, reigning prince-bishop Danilo II of Montenegro (until 1852, reigning prince Danilo I of Montenegro (1826–1860); reigned from 1851)

Metropolitan Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš, reigning prince-bishop Danilo I of Montenegro (c. 1670–1735; reigned 1697–1735)

Diepenbrock

Melchior von Diepenbrock (born 1798), German Catholic Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Cardinal

Eric of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

Eric of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1478 – 14 May 1532 in Fürstenau) was from 1508 to 1532 prince-bishop of Paderborn and Osnabrück.

Germain Boffrand

In 1724 Boffrand worked on site at Würzburg with Balthasar Neumann, who had been consulting him in Paris, on the Prince-Bishop's Residenz (under construction 1719-1744).

Ignazio Albertini

He may have been born in Milan, but first surfaces in Vienna, in a letter exchange between the famous violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer of the Viennese court and Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc.

Januarius Zick

Having finished his apprenticeship, he worked, together with his father, at the residence of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and then, until the mid-1750s, at the residence of the Prince-Bishop of Speyer in Bruchsal.

Jean-Nicolas Bassenge

This brought him much difficulty, despite the protection he enjoyed from the prince-bishop François-Charles de Velbrück.

Maurus Corker

On the accession of James II of England in 1685, Father Corker was released and kept at the court as resident ambassador of Prince-Bishop Ferdinand of Bavaria, the Elector of Cologne.

Mérode Altarpiece

It was only after one of their associates had been executed and the duke of Burgundy and the prince-bishop of Liège had mediated, that the Engelbrecht prisoners were set free.

Montenegrin passport

During the reign of Prince-Bishop Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, he was granting a special Montenegrin Bill of Passage.

Notker

Notker of Liège, provost of Saint Gall and later first Prince-Bishop of Liège

Oselce

Prince-Bishop, Prince Abbot Heinrich von Bibra’s nephew, Philipp Anton von Bibra (1751-1826 ) purchased it in 1808 from Prof. Antonin Zürchauer who himself purchase it a year earlier from František Dominik Janovský.

Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

South of that, there is a main wing for the Prince-Archbishop, with its two representative Classic façades, which extends the entire width of the building.

Peace of Westphalia

The Catholic Prince-Bishop Franz Wilhelm, Count of Wartenberg then imposed the Counter-Reformation onto the city with many Lutheran burgher families being exiled.

Pierre Henri Hélène Marie Lebrun-Tondu

Increasingly critical of the Prince-Bishop, he, in July 1786, installed the presses in the Austrian Netherlands, in Herve (Limburg), near Liege.

Prince-Bishopric of Freising

In 1294, the bishop was raised to the status of prince-bishop and thus became an Estate of the Empire enjoying imperial immediacy.

Prince-Provost

1694 - 1732 Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, also Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and Prince-Bishop of Worms, Elector and Archbishop of Trier from 1716 and of Mainz from 1729

Roman Sebastian Zängerle

On April 24, 1824, he became Prince-Bishop of Seckau and administrator of the diocese of Leoben.

Salzgitter-Ringelheim

The Baroque church of St. Abdon und Sennen built in 1694 is known for its precious organ and the crucifix from the workshop of Prince-bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.

Schönborn

Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn, Prince Bishop of Speyer (1719–1743), Bishop of Konstanz (1740) and a cardinal

Stylus fantasticus

In summer the Prince Bishop of Olomouc and his court retired to Kromeriz Castle, where there were lavish musical entertainments.

Thomas II, bishop of Wrocław

Before his death, on the Eve of St. John in 1290, the duke confirmed the rights of the Church to sovereignty over the territories of Neisse and Otmuchów making Thomas the first Prince-Bishop in Wrocław.

Vavila

After the abdication, Vavil turned Montenegro into a theocratic state ruled under the vladika (or prince-bishop) of Cetinje.

Vitus Georg Tönnemann

Tönnemann was born in 1659 in Höxter, the son of Heinrich Tönnemann, lawyer and adviser to the Prince-Bishop of Muster (von Galen).

Wacław Leszczyński

--(:pl:Wacław Leszczyński (prymas Polski))-->, Prince-Bishop of Warmia, primate of Poland, see List of bishops of Warmia

Wars of Liège

Through his excellent relations with Pope Callixtus III, he had Prince-Bishop John of Heinsberg deposed, and replaced by his 18-year-old nephew Louis de Bourbon.

Watzenrode

Lucas Watzenrode the Younger (1447–1512), prince-bishop of Ermland, Warmia, uncle of Nicolaus Copernicus

Wilhelm von Bibra

Wilhelm was a member of the aristocratic Franconian von Bibra family which among its members were Wilhelm’s half brother, Lorenz von Bibra Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Duke in Franconia, Conrad von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Duke in Franconia (1490-1544), Heinrich von Bibra, Prince-Bishop, Prince-Abbot of Fulda (1711-1788) and Ernst von Bibra (1806-1878), naturalist and author.

Wolfgang Heimbach

From 1670 until his death he was in the service of the Prince Bishop of Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen.

Zoudenbalch

In 1480 Evert was appointed Vice-Deacon of the Dom (vice-domdeken) and in 1482 he became Treasurer of the Dom; he surprisingly retained this key post until 1500 despite his active opposition to the Prince-Bishop David of Burgundy in the Civil War of 1481–1483.