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unusual facts about archbishop of Mainz



Archchancellor

At the court of Otto I, then King of Germany, the title seems to have been an appanage of the Archbishop of Mainz.

Council of Tribur

The first Christian Council of Tribur was held in Tribur (now Trebur, Germany) in May 895, and was presided over by Archbishop Hatto of Mainz.

Frederick, Archbishop of Ravenna

In June 1002 he was sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde to mediate between the claims of Bernard, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz, concerning the control of the abbey of Gandersheim.

Hans Sebald Beham

He also illuminated two prayer books and painted a table top (now in the Louvre ) for Cardinal Albrecht, Archbishop of Mainz.

Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry ravaged the Eichsfeld, a possession of the archbishop of Mainz, who was suspected to be involved in the murder.

Johannes von Müller

In order to improve his financial position, he accepted early in 1786 the post of librarian to Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, the prince-elector and of archbishop of Mainz, who bestowed many important offices upon him and obtained his elevation to nobility from the emperor Leopold II.

Thangmar

It is only in the account of the dispute between the Archbishop of Hildesheim and Archbishop of Mainz as to the right of jurisdiction over Gandesheim that Thangmar appears at times to be a partisan of Bernward.

Trifels Castle

The castle in Rhenish Franconia was first mentioned in a 1081 deed of donation, when it was held by a local noble Diemar, a relative of Archbishop Siegfried I of Mainz.


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Adolph II of Nassau

In 1461 Pope Pius II declared Adolph the archbishop of Mainz following the confrontational reforms of Theodoric.

Büraburg

Boniface subsequently (742) elevated Büraburg to a bishopric, the first in Germany east of the Roman Limes, but after the death of the only bishop, Witta, in 748 the bishopric was incorporated by Lullus, Boniface's successor as archbishop of Mainz, into his own diocese.

Isenburg

Diether von Isenburg (1412–1482), German priest, Archbishop of Mainz (1459–1462 and 1475–1482)

Karl Kaspar von der Leyen

In 1654 he made his younger brother Damian Hartard von der Leyen the Archbishop of Mainz and Provost and Archdeacon of Karden, titles under the Archbishopric of Trier.

Kleinwallstadt

In Kleinwallstadt, then also known as Bischofswallstadt, which was converted to Christianity as early as the early 8th century, the Archbishop of Mainz established in 1023 a Vogtei and a tithe court over a great expanse of the Spessart (range).

Von Gemmingen

Uriel von Gemmingen (1468-9 February 1514) was appointed Archbishop of Mainz on 27 September 1508, a prince elector, and chancellor to Emperor Maximillian I on 23 April 1509.