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  Trier - LoveToKnow 1911
TRIER (French treves), an ancient city of Germany, formerly the capital of an archbishopric and electorate of the empire, and now the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop and the chief town of a governrnental department in the Prussian province of the Rhine.
In the south-east corner of the city are the picturesque ruins of the Roman imperial palace, and near the bridge are the extensive substructures of the 4thcentury Roman baths, 660 ft. in length.
In the vaults are buried twenty-six archbishops and electors.
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  Trier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trier is the seat of the Archbishopric of Trier, as well as being home to a university, a technical college, the administration of the Trier-Saarburg district and the seat of the ADD (Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion), which until 1999 was the borough authority of Trier.
The Archbishop of Trier was, as chancellor of Burgundy, one of the seven Electorates of the Holy Roman Empire, a right which originated in the 12th or 13th century, and which continued until the French Revolution.
Trier's status as an archbishopric city was confirmed in 1364 AD by Emperor Charles IV and by the Reichskammergericht; The city's dream of self-rule came definitively to an end in 1583.
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 Trier
From about 1100 the Archbishop of Trier was the Arch-Chancellor of Gaul, for the German emperor, and thus became the possessor of an imperial office and an Elector of the German king and emperor.
As the archbishops of Trier were among the leading spiritual princes of the empire, they became involved in all the struggles between pope and emperor.
Henry II of Vinstingen (1260-86) was the first Archbishop of Trier who took part in the election of a German emperor as one of the seven Electors; the electoral dignity, together with the right to the first vote, was confirmed by the Golden Bull in 1356.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/trier.html   (2826 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Bishopric and Archbishopric of Trier was one of the important ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.
Archbishop Radbod received in 898 complete immunity from all taxes for the entire episcopal territory, granted by Zwentibold, the natural son of Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia, who reigned briefly as King of Lotharingia and, under great pressure from his independent nobles, desperately needed a powerful ally.
The Archbishop of Trier, as holder of an imperial office was traditionally an Imperial Elector of the German king.
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 Trier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Archbishop of Trier was, as chancellor of Burgundy, one of the seven electors of the empire, a right which originated in the 12th or 13th century, and which continued until the French Revolution.
The most important Archbishop and Lord Elector of Trier in the Middle Ages was Balduin of Luxemburg, son of the Count of Luxemburg.
In the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Trier was an important ecclesiastical prince, controlling land from the French border to the Rhine.
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 Archbishopric of Trier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bishopric and Archbishopric of Trier was one of the important ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.
Archbishop Radbod received in 898 complete immunity from all taxes for the entire episcopal territory, granted by Zwentibold, the natural son of Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia, who reigned briefly as King of Lotharingia and, under great pressure from his independent nobles, desperately needed a powerful ally.
The Archbishop of Trier, as holder of an imperial office was traditionally an Imperial Elector of the German king.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Trier
Trier was the capital of Belgica Prima, the chief city of Gaul, and frequently the residence of the emperors.
Trier were among the leading spiritual princes of the empire, they became involved in all the struggles between pope and emperor.
Trier and Coblenz, sought to rid themselves of the suzerainty of the bishop.
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 Trier
It is situated on the western bank of the Moselle in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
From 259 to 274 Trier was the capital of the break away Gallic Empire.
Trier is also the birthplace of the influential philosopher Karl Marx.
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 Trier History
Not only is Trier a Roman city, it is also the oldest city in Germany, then a purely civilian city 120 kilometers/70 miles away from the Rhine and the Germanic tribes.
It was its function as a religious center that kept Trier going, and by the middle of the 18th century, eminent architects and artists turned Trier into a place set splendidly with baroque and rococo churches, palaces, and gardens.
Trier received a large garrison and started prospering when, after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, it had, with Alsace and Lorraine, its old hinterland again - by 1900 it numbered 50,000 inhabitants.
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 Trier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Trier is the oldest seat of a Christian bishop north of the Alps.
In the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Trier was an important ecclesiastical prince, as the Archbishopric of Trier controlled land from the French border to the Rhine.
Trier is home to the University of Trier, the administration of the Trier-Saarburg district and the seat of the ADD (Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion), which until 1999 was the borough authority of Trier.
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 Baldwin
Archbishop of Trier and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, born 1285; died 1354; he belonged to the noble family of the Counts of Luxemburg, or Lutzelburg, and was a brother of the Emperor Henry VII.
In 1305, when the Archbishop of Mainz died, Henry wished to procure this archiepiscopal see and electorate for his brother, and sent his former physician, Peter Aichspalter, then Bishop of Basle, to Pope Clement V, at Avignon, with instructions to use his influence in behalf of Baldwin.
Shortly after the new archbishop's consecration the Emperor Albert was murdered (May, 1308), and Baldwin, acting with Archbishop Aichspalter of Mainz, prevailed upon the other electors to award the imperial crown to Henry of Luxemburg.
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 Koblenz
to the archbishop of Trier (Treves), and it remained in the possession of the archbishop-electors till the close of the 18th century.
In 1249?1254 it was surrounded with new walls by Archbishop Arnold II (of Isenburg); and it was partly to overawe the turbulent townsmen that successive archbishops built and strengthened the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein that dominates the city.
This drew down upon the archbishop-elector the wrath of the French republicans; in 1794 Coblenz was taken by the French Revolutionary army under Marceau[?] (who fell during the siege), and, after the signing of the Treaty of Lunéville (1801) it was made the chief town of the Rhine and Mosel department.
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 History of TRIER 3
In 1307, at the age of 22, Baldwin of Luxembourg became Trier’s Archbishop and Prince Elector.
In addition to the Archbishop of Trier, electors included the Archbishops of Cologne and Mainz, the King of Bohemia, the Count of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony and the Margrave of Brandenburg.
The Weaver’s Guild of the town was against the rule of the Archbishop in Trier but he had the backing of the empire so the weavers, en mass, emigrated from the town.
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 Egbert, Archbishop of Trier
In 977 he was made Archbishop of Trier, which see was vacant by the death of Theodoric.
The collegiate church of St. Paulinus, near Trier, was similarly endowed, a regular income for its clergy assured, and a fitting solemnity in Divine Worship made possible.
Among valuable specimens still extant are: at Trier a portable altar, at Limburg the golden case or covering with richly adorned head of the so-called St. Peter's Staff, once a part of the relics of the Trier cathedral, now in the sacristy of the Franciscan church at Limburg.
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 TRIER (French Troves) - Online Information article about TRIER (French Troves)
Archbishop Poppo and his successors in the I1th and 12th centuries extended the cathedral westwards and added an apse at each end.
Holy Coat of Trier," believed by the devout to be the seamless robe of the Saviour, and said to have been discovered and presented to the city by the empress See also:
Luneville in 18or France annexed all the territories of Trier on the left bank of the Rhine, and in 1802 the elector abdicated.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TRIER_French_Troves_.html   (2785 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of the Princebishopric of Trier, 1729-1815
The Archbishop of Trier was one to the Empire's 7 electors; as one of the 4 Catholic electors he was essential for the Habsburg Dynasty in securing the imperial crown.
In 1785 the Archbishop was among the signatories of the EMS PUNCTATION establishing an independence of Rome of the German church, similar to the one claimed by the French church.
In 1794 Trier was occupied by French troops; the Archbishop fled.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/trier17291815.html   (359 words)

  
 WHKMLA : Trier Stift Feud
The Trier Stift Feud marks the last attempt of Germany's immediate knighthood to revive the middle ages; from 1523 onward immediate knights were, as such, insignificant.
Individual descendants from such families managed to rise to bishops, archbishops, to chancellors at royal courts or generals in the armies of territorial states; their fiefs as individual statelets, however, were, even in German regional history, of tertiary importance.
The Archbishops of Trier, as Princebishops, no longer trusted their territory's lower nobility; they and their landholdings were excluded from the PRINCEBISHOPRIC OF TRIER, so that the Landtag (diet) of the territory consisted only of two estates, clergy and the third estate.
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 Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
German historian and theologian, was born on the 27th of January 1701 at Trier.
He was educated by the Jesuits at Trier and at the universities of Trier, Louvain and Leiden, taking his degree of doctor of laws at Trier in 1724.
The archbishop of Trier was practically a great secular prince, and upon Hontheim as suffragan and vicar-general fell the whole spiritual administration of the diocese; this work, in addition to that of pro-chancellor of the university, he carried on single-handed until 1778, when Jean Marie Cuohot d'Herbain was appointed his coadjutor.
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 Febronianism and Josephism
After repeated appeals of the Pope to the Prince-bishop of Trier to exercise his influence upon von Hontheim, the latter consented to make a retractation in 1778, but his followers alleged that the retractation having been secured by threats was valueless.
The Archbishop of Trier publicly withdrew his adhesion to the Punctuation, and advised his Gallican colleagues to do likewise, but they refused, and in the election agreement of 1790 and 1792 they sought to pledge the emperors to support their policy.
At last the Archbishops of Cologne and Salzburg made their submission, but the Archbishop of Mainz clung obstinately to his views, until the storm of the French Revolution broke over his city and territory, and put an end to his rule as a temporal prince.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Rimbert: Life of Anskar, Apostle of the Nth
Ebo the archbishop of Rheims, who was the Emperor's favourite minister, was asked by him to organise this mission and with him was associated Halitgar, bishop of Cambray.
Archbishop Unmi the successor of Rimbert died at Birka in 936 whilst engaged in a missionary tour.
He was assisted by Ebo, Archbishop of Rheims; Hetti of Trier [Hetti, or Hetto, was archbishop of Trier, 814-847] and Otgar of Mainz [Otgar was bishop of Mainz 826-847], whilst many other bishops who had gathered for the imperial assembly were present.
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 Saar River - Merzig, Mettlach, Saarburg, Trier, Völklingen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Trier is a city that claims to be older than Rome but in fact the Romans founded it.
This gave it political clout in the Middle Ages and its archbishop ranked as one of the seven Electoral princes.
(The archbishops in an effort to restore their superiority had one of the towers raised so that the Dom remained the tallest church.) The inside of the church was very simple with its simply painted vaulted ceiling.
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 The Age of Absolutism and Unbelief: Febronianism and Josephism @ ELCore.Net
On the return of von Hontheim to his native city of Trier he was entrusted with various important offices by the Prince-bishop of Trier, by whose advice he was appointed assistant-bishop of that See (1740).
The Archbishop of Trier made a similar application, not indeed as Archbishop of Trier, but as Bishop of Augsburg.
The Archbishop of Trier publicly withdrew his adhesion to the
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 ...:::WERLING SOLARSYSTEMS POLSKA:::...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In Trier Wolfgang became a teacher in the cathedral school, and also labored for the reform of the Archdiocese, notwithstanding the enmity with which his efforts were met.
Wolfgang's residence at Trier greatly influenced his monastic and ascetic tendencies, as here he came into connection with the great reformatory monastery of the tenth century, St. Maximin of Trier, where he made the acquaintance of St. Ramwold, the teacher of St. Adalbert of Prague (Czech Republic).
Poppe, son of Margrave Luitpold, Archbishop of Trier (1016), and Tagino, Archbishop of Magdeburg (Germany, r.
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 St. Wendelin of Trier - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
When in 1320 a pestilence was checked through the intercession of the saint, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier had the chapel rebuilt.
He is represented in art as a youth, or as a bearded man, with a shepherd's bag and a book in one hand and a shepherd's crook in the other; about him feed lambs, cattle, and swine, while a crown and a shield are placed at his feet.
Wendelin is not mentioned in the Roman Martyrology, but his feast is observed in the Diocese of Trier on 22 October.
www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Wendelin.html   (375 words)

  
 Germany City & Hotel Travel Guide :: Trier
Trier is Germany's oldest city, having its beginnings in 15BC.
Trier Altstadtfest Just in time for the World Cup between June 23 – 25, 2006 will be the Old Town Festival with a selection of musical events.
Eintracht Trier, founded in 1905, are currently in the second division of the Bundesliga and play their home games at the 10,000 capacity Moselstadion.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/wc2006/city_guide/trier.html   (992 words)

  
 The Discovery of the Relics of Celsus
Later, when time had been set aside for him, the Archbishop, who held a high place among all those men, sought to speak, having brought forth a piece of parchment on which was written the inscription from the sarcophagous of blessed Celsus, as well as the story of how the relics had been found.
The archbishop was unable to restrain himself in the midst of the chanting voices and he devoutly watered his face with floods of tears in praise of the redeemer.
When the archbishop, adorned with this dowry from heaven and surrounded by a great throng of believers, entered the monastery, he began to chant the first verse of the paschal hymn of joy, Te Deum Laudamus, and all those gathered there completed it in a glorious din.
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 COCHEMS/ZENZ FAMILY HISTORY
The Archbishop was also a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and as such had voting power in the governance of the empire.
Trier, sometimes called Treves, is thought to be the oldest town in Germany.
An Archbishop of the Catholic Church ruled the area around the Mosel, so our ancestors were spared the religious wars that came after Martin Luther (1483-1546).
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 bodin
One of the fiercest was that which raged in the dominions of the Elector-Archbishop of Trier (Treves) in western Germany.
It was during this persecution at Trier that Coinelius Loos, a scholar of Dutch birth who held a professorship in the university of that city, dared to protest against both the persecution itself and the superstitions out of which it grew.
I submit myself also to arbitrary correction, whether by the Archbishop of Trier or by any other magistrates under whom it may befall me to dwell, and who may be certified of my relapse and of my broken faith, that they may punish me according to my deserts, in honor and reputation, property and person.
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 Travelogue het Moezeldal February 2003, Groningen - Trier, a walk through the city
We have been invited for this weekend to Trier by Jennifer (our youngest daughter) and her friend, and everyone who has been on this website before, knows we can't resist such an invitation.
About 110,000 people live in Trier nowadays, but even in the 4th century it had already a population of almost 70,000.
Trier is now a mixture of modern and old, but almost nowhere in Western-Europe (except for Italy) are so many authentic Roman buildings preserved in one city as here.
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