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  Archbishopric of Mainz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Between 780–82 and 1802 the Archbishop of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince in the Holy Roman Empire.
The Archbishop was also, traditionally, one of the Imperial Prince-Electors, the Arch-chancellor of Germany, and presiding officer of the electoral college technically from 1251 and permanently from 1263 until 1803.
Since then the Diocese of Mainz has had two cardinals and via various concordats was allowed to retain the mediæval tradition of the cathedral chapter electing a successor to the bishop.
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 Mainz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mainz (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Mainz is located on the left bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main river with the Rhine.
Mainz is famous for its Carnival, the Mainz Fassenacht, which has developed since the early 19th century, and is celebrated in a fountain near the centre of the city.
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 Mainz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Archbishops of Mainz traditionally were primas germaniae, the substitutes of the Pope north of the Alps.
The Mainz University, which was refounded in 1946, is named after Gutenberg; the earlier University of Mainz that dated back to 1477 had been closed down by Napoleon's troops in 1798.
Mainz is called by a number of different names in other languages and dialects.
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 HATTO I. - LoveToKnow Article on HATTO I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
850913), archbishop of Mainz, belonged to a Swabian family, and was probably educated at the monastery of Reichenau,of which be became abbot in 888.
He soon became known to the German king, Arnuif, who appointed him archbishop of Mainz in 891; and he became such a trustworthy and confidential counsellor that he was popularly called the heart of the king.
This Hatto built the church of St George on the island of Reichenau, was generous to the see of Mainz and to the abbeys of Fulda and Reichenau, and was a patron of the chronicler Regino, abbot of Prum.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HATTO_I_.htm   (466 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mainz
In 451 Mainz was pillaged by the Huns.
In the investiture strife the archbishops of Mainz, as the foremost spiritual princes of the empire, could not remain neutral.
Electors Sebastian von Hausenstamm (1545-55) and Daniel Brendel of Homburg (1555-82), strove indefatigably to heal the scars of the Reformation; the latter summoned the Jesuits to Mainz.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09550a.htm   (3224 words)

  
 Prince-elector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Golden Bull of 1356 finally resolved the disputes; under it, the Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne, as well as the King of Bohemia, the Count Palatine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg held the right to elect the King.
The electors were originally summoned by either the Archbishop of Mainz or the Archbishop of Trier within one month of an Emperor's death, and met within three months of being summoned.
The three spiritual electors were all Arch-Chancellors: the Archbishop of Mainz was Arch-Chancellor of Germany, the Archbishop of Trier was Arch-Chancellor of Burgundy, and the Archbishop of Cologne was Arch-Chancellor of Italy.
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 Archbishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop, responsible for all churches belonging to a religious group of a particular district.
An archbishop is usually also the Metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province, but there are exceptions to this rule.
When a plain bishop becomes an archbishop, he is not in any sense being ordained nor otherwise receiving any sacrament; by contrast (in the Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox churches) a man becoming a bishop is being ordained.
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 Primate (religion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A primate in the Western Church is an archbishop or bishop who has authority not just over the bishops of his own province, as a Metropolitan does, but over a number of provinces, such as a national church.
In England, however, the metropolitans of the two provinces of Canterbury and York, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York, are Primate of All England and Primate of England respectively.
In the United States the Archbishop of Baltimore is called "honorary primate" since he was granted ceremonial precedence before all American archbishops, as Baltimore was the first diocese in the nation.
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 Gutenberg und seine Zeit: Gutenberg und Mainz
The archbishop of Mainz was at the same time Primas Germaniae, archchancellor of the nation (since 965) with the right to appoint the king.
Many sons of patricians of Mainz attended the University of Erfurt, since this was the alma mater of the Mainz arch diocese.
In 1459 Diether von Isenburg-Büdingen was elected as archbishop and thus arch chancellor of Germany.
www.gutenberg.de /english/zeitgum.htm   (3137 words)

  
 ELECTOR OF MAINZ BERTOLD - LoveToKnow Article on ELECTOR OF MAINZ BERTOLD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(1442-1504), elector and archbishop of Mainz, son of George, count of Hennebcrg, entered the ecclesiastical profession, and after passing through its lower stages, was made archbishop of Mainz in 1484.
Immediately after his election as archbishop he began to take a leading part in the business of the Empire, and in 1486 was very active in securing the election of Maximilian as Roman king.
Bertold was a man of great ability and resourcefulness, and as a statesman who strove for an ordered and united Germany was far in advance of his age.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BERTOLD_ELECTOR_OF_MAINZ.htm   (300 words)

  
 Fritzlar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1079 Fritzlar ceased to be be a crown possession when it was gifted to the archbishop of Mainz by Emperor Henry IV in the aftermath of his submission to the Pope at Canossa.
It thus became a pivotal pillar in the long-lasting feuds between Mainz and the landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse for territorial supremacy in northern Hesse.
Mainz responded by immediately rebuilding and further fortifying the town, adding numerous towers to the walls and building seven watch towers and fortified refuges on strategic hills in the surrounding countryside.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Fritzlar.htm   (1553 words)

  
 MAINZ FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Besides Rome, Mainz is the only diocese in the world with an episcopal_see that is called a Holy_See (''sancta sedes'').
Led by Georg_Forster representatives of the Mainz Republic in Paris requested political affiliation of the Mainz Republic with France, but too late: As Prussia was not entirely happy with the idea of a democratic free state on German soil, Prussian troops had already occupied the area and besieged Mainz by the end of March, 1793.
Beginning in 1874, the city of Mainz assimilated the ''Gartenfeld'', an idyllic area of meadows and fields along the shore of the Rhine_River to the north of the rampart.
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 Eltz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At that time, von Eltz lived in a small manor on the banks of the River Eltz, in what is now the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
He held both the titles of Prince Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, making him one of the most powerful Catholic princes north of the Alps.
As a result of their service throughout the troubles of the Reformation and during the wars against the Ottoman Empire, the elder line of Eltz was raised to the position of Counts of the Empire by the Emperor Charles VI in 1733 in Vienna.
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 Mainz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mainz (French ''Mayence'') is a city in Germany, which is the capital of the GermanyGerman States of Germanyfederal state of Rhineland-Palatinate/.
Beginning with Willigis (975–1011) until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Archbishops of Mainz were archchancellors of the Empire and the most important ones of the seven prince-electorElectors to elect the German Emperor.
After the founding of the German Empire in 1871, Mainz no longer was as important a stronghold, because in the Franco-Prussian Warwar of 1870/71 France had lost the territory of Alsace-Lorraine/ to Germany, and this defined the new border between the two countries.
www.infothis.com /find/Mainz   (1965 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of the Princebishopric of Mainz, 1743-1815
The Archbishop of Mainz was one of the Holy Roman Empire's 7 (later 9) ELECTORS.
In 1792, Mainz (the territories on the left bank of the Rhine) was occupied by French forces and the MAINZ REPUBLIC proclaimed, which fell in 1793 to Imperial forces.
KARL THEODOR VON DALBERG, Archbishop of Mainz since 1802, was appointed Grand Duke of Frankfurt (a newly created statelet); he was the leading figure in the CONFEDERATION OF THE RHINE (1806-1813); German national propaganda called him the traitor from the Rhine.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/mainz17431815.html   (443 words)

  
 Traditionshop:Deutsches Rhinevalley
IN 1253, the archbishop of Mainz and the army of the town association conquered and destroyed Reichenstein.
As a consequence the Archbishop of Mainz banned him from the church.
Mainz leased the castle several times until 1361, also to Kuno von Falkenstein, a successor of those gentlemen von Bolanden who 150 years before had been bailiffs there.
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 Prince-elector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1706, the Elector of Bavaria and Archbishop of Cologne were banned during the War of the Spanish Succession, but both were restored in 1714 after the Peace of Baden.
In 1803, electorates were created for the Duke of Württemberg, the Margrave of Baden, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and the Duke of Salzburg, bringing the total number of electors to ten.
The electors were originally summoned by the Archbishop of Mainz within one month of an Emperor's death, and met within three months of being summoned.
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 Archbishopric of Mainz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Archbishopric of Mainz was a substantial ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Emperor.
The Archbishop was also, traditionally, one of the Imperial Electors and the Archchancellor of Germany.
The Archbishop retained the Aschaffenberg area however, and when the Holy Roman Empire finally came to an end in 1806, this became the core of Dalberg's new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/archbishopric_of_mainz   (258 words)

  
 Matrix Monasticon:
In 1152 the archbishop of mainz consecrated the main altar of the church to S. Mary, the apostles Philip and Jacob, Rupert, and Martin.
Patrons Benefactors: Siegfried II von Eppstein, archbishop of Mainz, served as protector of the cloister.
Below Christ's feet are the figures of Siegfried II von Eppstein, archbishop of Mainz and protector of the cloister, and Agnes, Duchess of Nancy and Lothringia, a patron of the convent (Wienand, 161-2).
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 The Avalon Project : The Golden Bull of the Emperor Charles IV 1356 A.D.
(10) In like manner the archbishop of Treves, archchancellor of the holy empire for the Glallic provinces and for the kingdom of Arles, shall be escorted by the archbishop of Mainz, the count palatine of the Rhine; likewise the counts of Sponheim, of Veldenz.
But so often and whenever the holy empire shall hereafter happen to be vacant, the archbishop of Mainz shall Men have the right, which he is known from of old to have had, of convoking the other princes, his aforesaid companions in the said election.
Concerning the benedictions of the archbishops in the presence of the emperor.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/medieval/golden.htm   (5228 words)

  
 Historia Iudaica - Jews in Medieval Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was confirmed by archbishop Konrad I of Wittelsbach (1183–1200) during his second term of office as archbishop of Mainz.
The security of the Jewish population in Erfurt depended particularly on the relations between the council and the archbishops of Mainz, the Wettiner comital dynasty, and the King or Emperor.
In 1458 the archbishop of Mainz and Emperor Frederick III accepted the council's procedure.
www.uni-trier.de /uni/fb3/geschichte/cluse/eu/en_tour_erfurt.html   (496 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hatto
In 892 he presided over a synod at Frankfort, at which, the rights of the Archbishop of Cologne over the Diocese of Bremen were discussed by order of Pope Formosus.
His alleged implication in the "treacherous" capture of Duke Adalbert of Badenberg was probably and invention of his enemies, and the fable of the "Müusethurm", where he is said to have been eaten up by mice and rats in punishment for his hardheartedness during a famine, has no historical foundation.
The same story is related of Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz (968-970), and of many other persons.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus
Abbot of Fulda, Archbishop of Mainz, celebrated theological and pedagogical writer of the ninth century, born at Mainz about 776 (784?); died at Winkel (Vinicellum) near Mainz on 4 February, 856.
In 845 he was reconciled with the king and in 847 succeeded Otgar as Archbishop of Mainz.
He was buried in the monastery of St. Alban at Mainz, but his relics were transferred to Halle by Archbishop Albrecht of Brandenburg.
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 Albert, of Brandenburg, Archibishop and Elector of Mainz, Cardinal. Letter.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Albert, of Brandenburg, Archibishop and Elector of Mainz, Cardinal.
ALBERT, OF BRANDENBURG, ARCHBISHOP AND ELECTOR OF MAINZ, CARDINAL (1490-1545)
As early as 1509 he was Prebendary in the Cathedral of Mainz; Archbishop of Magdeburg and Administrator of Halberstadt from 1513; Archbishop of Mainz from 1514; Cardinal-Priest from 1518.
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 The Age of Gregory VII, 1073-85:A letter from Archbishop Liemar of Bremen to Bishop Hezilo of Hildesheim (1075)
Archbishop Liemar of Bremen to Bishop Hezilo of Hildesheim (late January 1075).
This letter was the archbishop's response to a rebuke from Gregory, VII sent in December 1074 [Gregory, Reg.
To which, on the advice of those of our brother bishops who were present, the Archbishop of Mainz and I replied that it was impossible for us two to put this edict of theirs into practice without consulting our brothers and fellow bishops, the greatest men in the kingdom and taking their advice.
www.etext.leeds.ac.uk /hist1120gregory/liemar.htm   (609 words)

  
 Gutenberg Bible: Gutenberg's Life - the Last Years
In 1462 Mainz was involved in a war between two men who both wanted to be archbishop of Mainz.
The man imposed by the pope and supported by France won the war, in the face of opposition from the burghers of Mainz.
It certainly affected the prosperity of Mainz, and is one of the reasons why printing began to spread across Europe.
www.bl.uk /treasures/gutenberg/prtgutlastyears.html   (224 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: Boniface, Saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Archbishop of Mainz, born Devonshire, England, 675; died Dokkum, Netherlands, 755.
Commissioned by Pope Zacharias, 741, to reform the whole Frankish Church, he held councils, established bishoprics, and, laboring against countless difficulties, effected a complete reform of the clergy.
He was made Archbishop of Mainz, 748, and resigned his see, 754, to accomplish his long-dreamed-of mission to Friesland.
www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd01360.htm   (263 words)

  
 Monogrammed by the Master H.K V.B: Portrait of Daniel, Archbishop of Mainz (17.190.488) | Object Page | Timeline of Art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Monogrammed by the Master H.K V.B: Portrait of Daniel, Archbishop of Mainz (17.190.488)
The subject, Daniel Brendel of Homberg, archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire for Germany, was prince elector and archbishop of Mainz and primate of the Roman Catholic Church of the countries north of the alpine mountains from 1555 to 1582.
The archbishop likely kept this unusually designed miniature portrait in his personal Kunstkammer in the Martinsburg in Mainz on the Rhine, which may be identified as the building in the distance at right.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/kuns/hod_17.190.488.htm   (152 words)

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