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	Archbishop of Utrecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Diocese of Utrecht was established in 695 when Saint Willibrord was consecrated bishop of the Frisians at Rome by Pope Sergius I, and with the consent of the Frankish ruler, Pippin of Herstal, settled at the market-town of Utrecht.
		According to the terms of the Union of Utrecht, the rights and privileges of the Roman Catholic religion were guaranteed, but on June 14, 1580, the practice of that religion was forbidden by the magistrates of Utrecht.
		At present the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, since 1945 often a cardinal, is the Primate of the Netherlands and the Metropolitan of a province with six suffragans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bishop_of_Utrecht (693 words)

	UTRECHT - LoveToKnow Article on UTRECHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The town of Utrecht is built in a hollow among the foothills of the Drakensberg.
		Utrecht is the seat of a university, and of a Roman Catholic archbishopric.
		The manor of Zuilen on the Vecht, four miles north-west of Utrecht, was partly held in fief from this abbey and partly from the bishops of Utrecht.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /U/UT/UTRECHT.htm (4094 words)

	Jewish Historical Museum \| Utrecht
		During, the closing decades of the 18th century the Jewish population of Utrecht had grown to such an extent that in 1792 a former Mennonite church located in the Jufferstraat/Springweg was hired for use as a synagogue.
		During the period of Napoleonic rule in the Netherlands, Utrecht was chosen as the seat of the provincial chief rabbinate.
		Utrecht was selected as the seat of the chief rabbinate of all of the Netherlands outside of the cities and surroundings of Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam, each of which had their own rabbinates.
	www.jhm.nl /netherlands.aspx?ID=162 (1359 words)

	ipedia.com: Utrecht (province) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Important cities in the province are its capital Utrecht and Amersfoort.
		In the Middle Ages, most of the area of the current province was ruled by the bishop of Utrecht.
		However, the Habsburg rule did not last long, as Utrecht joined the revolt of the United Provinces against Charles' son Philip II of Spain in 1579.
	www.ipedia.com /utrecht__province_.html (301 words)

	Belgium - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From the 12th century the economy flourished: Bruges, Ghent, and Ypres became centres of the textile industry, while the artisans of Dinant and Liège exploited the copper and tin of the Meuse valley.
		In the 16th century Protestantism took a hold in the Spanish Netherlands, and the religious and secular tyranny of the ardently Catholic Philip II of Spain led to a revolt, starting in 1568.
		By the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which concluded the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish Netherlands were ceded to Austria, where the Habsburgs continued to rule.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Belgium (4427 words)

	Utrecht (province)
		Utrecht is the smallest province of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country.
		In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age.
		Because of the scarcity of nutrients in the fast-draining sandy soil, the greatest part of a landscape that was formerly heath has been planted with pine trees.
	207.150.180.135 /Utrecht_(province) (278 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Union of Utrecht
		The Union of Utrecht (Dutch: Unie van Utrecht) is a treaty signed on January 23, 1579 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under control of Spain.
		The Union of Utrecht is regarded as the foundation of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, which was not recognised internationally until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended the Eighty Years' War.
		The treaty was signed on January 23 by Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht (but not entire Utrecht) and the province (but not the city) of Groningen.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Union_of_Utrecht (354 words)

	Bishop of Utrecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1527, the Bishop sold his territories to Emperor Charles V and the principality became part of the Habsburg dominions; the chapters voluntarily transferred their right of electing the bishop to Charles, and Pope Clement VII gave his consent to these proceedings.
		In 1559 Utrecht was raised to the rank of an archdiocese and metropolitan see with six suffragan dioceses, but this new ecclesiastical assett had not a long existence.
		The See remained vacant until 1602, when the place of Archbishop was taken by the apostolic vicars of the Dutch Mission (Hollandse Zending), who, however, were generally driven from the country by the States-General and forced to administer their charge from abroad.
	www.stfrancisofassisi.us /bishop_of_utrecht.htm (785 words)

	Utrecht (province) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Utrecht is the smallest Provinces of the Netherlandsprovince of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country.
		Important cities in the province are its capital Utrecht (city)Utrecht and Amersfoort/.
		In 1527, the bishop of Utrecht sold his worldly power over his territories to Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorCharles V, who already owned the other Dutch provinces.
	www.infothis.com /find/Utrecht_(province) (352 words)

	HNA Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wisely avoiding narrow definitions, van Bueren concentrates on paintings produced in the diocese of Utrecht, which approximates to that area of the Low Countries north of the rivers Rhine and Meuse.
		A Mass of St. Gregory (Jacobikerk, Utrecht), with portraits of a couple, their two sons and six daughters and four patron saints, was painted towards the end of the fifteenth century, perhaps in 1492-93.
		Some of van Bueren's generalisations are open to question, especially when she makes comparisons between the Utrecht memorials and those from the pre-1559 dioceses of Liège, Cambrai and Tournai.
	www.hnanews.org /archive/2000n/bueren00.html (1274 words)

	Frisia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frisia began to identify itself as a country with free folk in the Middle Ages.
		The bishopric of Utrecht didn't belong to this Frisia anymore.
		There were many floods in the 11th and 12th centuries, which led to the deaths of many, and the forming of the Zuiderzee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frisia (975 words)

	Netherlands - Gouda, Utrecht, Amersfoort
		We preferred to linger on Utrecht's famous bridges from which, owing to the sharp-angled bends of the Oude Gracht and Nieuwe Gracht, one obtains the finest views of the imposing cathedral tower.
		This patriarchal bishopric of Utrecht clasps hands with the German Hildesheim, far away across the heaths, on a spur of the Harz Mountains.
		Utrecht, after thirteen hundred years, has a cathedral tower several hundred years old to mark the spot where stood the first church of which Willibrodus was made bishop.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles21/netherlands-24.shtml (3632 words)

	History Amsterdam and Holland
		The Netherlands in the middle-ages were a collection, of often rivalling, autonomous duchies (Gelre and Brabant) and counties (Holland and Zeeland) together with the bishopric of Utrecht.
		This, in the middle ages, wasn't an exception as separate kingdoms, duchies, counties all rivalled over minor tracts of land since income of the rulers highly depended on the riches of the land.
		The tolls were an important move in the struggle for control over the area, since traditionally these parts belonged to the bishopric Utrecht.
	home.wish.net /~sparhawk/history.htm (4099 words)

	Drenthe Province (The Netherlands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Drenthe used to be part of the 'Oversticht' ('Sticht' was the name of the domain of the Bishop of Utrecht; 'Oversticht' was the part of the 'Sticht' on the other side of the river IJssel), and thus part of the bishopric of Utrecht.
		It used to be part of the bishopric of Utrecht, but became more and more independent.
		The arms of the province of Drenthe are derived from the seal of the Landschap Drenthe, which depicted the same composition since 1262.
	flagspot.net /flags/nl-dr.html (412 words)

	Utrecht
		He again rose to fame in 1423, as a pretender for the Bishopric of Utrecht, following the death of Bishop Frederick van Blankenheim.
		The scene is immortalised by an illustration in a contemporaneous illuminated missal depicting the Pope (later Saint) Martin at prayer together with the newly appointed Bishop.
		Later in the same century Konrad (known as "Coenraet van Diepholt"), became Marshall of Utrecht and Castellan of Abcoude from 1540 on.
	www.deefholts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /utrecht.htm (1859 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Arnauld
		She left various writings and a collection of letters to be found in the "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de PortRoyal" (Utrecht, 1742-44).
		He was obliged to wait three years for his Bulls, which were delayed by the difficulties between the court and the Holy See.
		Being offered the Bishopric of Périgeux (1650), he refused, but accepted that of Angers in which was situated his Abbey of SaintNicholas.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01742a.htm (5431 words)

	Trajecta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This article is a concise overview of the history of the ecclesiastical and religious life in the medieval bishopric of Utrecht and the adjacent regions of the Northern Netherlands, insofar as these were part of the present-day Netherlands.
		The concise nature of this overview means that is limited to a number of main topic and does not pretend to be complete.
		The following themes are dealt with successively: bishopric and bishop, monastic orders, regular and secular clergy and the religious life of the lay population.
	www.kdc.kun.nl /trajecta/98-4-1.html (159 words)

	Abcoude (The Netherlands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Abcoude was first mentioned in 1085 in a charter of Koenraad, bishop of Utrecht, as "Abecenwalde".
		On the border between the county of Holland and the bishopric of Utrecht was the castle of Abcoude.
		That is first mentioned in 1274, when it was destroyed by Gijsbrecht van Amstel, the neighbour from Holland.
	atlasgeo.span.ch /FOTW/flags/nl-ut-ac.html (229 words)

	Pope Adrian VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Adrian VI, born Adrian Florisz Dedel, son of Floris Boeyens (March 2, 1459 – September 14, 1523), served as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and its Eastern Churches in communion with the Holy See from 1522 until his death.
		He was born under very modest circumstances in the city of Utrecht, which at that time was capital of the bishopric of Utrecht and a Low German-speaking part (whose inhabitants considered themselves to be part of the German nation) of the Holy Roman Empire, and is now in the Netherlands.
		Therefore, Adrian VI is considered to have been both Dutch and German when using modern terms, however that difference did not exist in his lifetime.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Pope_Adrian_VI.htm (923 words)

	NIS News Bulletin - Short history of the Netherlands III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among the more important of such states were the bishopric of Utrecht, the duchies of Brabant and Gelre, and the lands held by the counts of Zeeland and the increasingly powerful counts of Holland.
		In the course of the dispute, the seven northern provinces (Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Groningen, Friesland, and Overijssel) formed the United Provinces and proclaimed their independence from Spain in 1581 – a claim unrecognized by Spain until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
		The predominantly Catholic southern provinces remained loyal to Spain and were subsequently distinguished as the Spanish Netherlands and then, after the War of the Spanish Succession, as the Austrian Netherlands.
	www.nisnews.nl /nl3.htm (909 words)

	English version of Belle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Between the 8th till the 12th century, the area along river "De Vecht" and its adjacent villages and land, was owned by of the Bishopric of Utrecht.
		To protect the agricultural land around “De Vecht” and the transportation across the river, the bishop attracted some men of noble birth as vassals.
		Jacoba van Beieren was one of the inhabitants of the castle and around 1422 the castle was destroyed by the people from Utrecht.
	home.planet.nl /~vanhuussen/belle/etext.html (470 words)

	Articles - Low Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of particular importance for the cities was the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth, Europe's first industry.
		After the Seventeen Provinces declared their independence from Habsburg Spain, the provinces of the Southern Netherlands were recaptured (1581) and are sometimes called the Spanish Netherlands.
		In 1713, under the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of the Spanish Succession, what was left of the Spanish Netherlands was ceded to Austria and thus became known as the Austrian Netherlands.
	www.zdiamond.net /articles/Low_Countries (593 words)

	Illuminated and Decorated Mediaeval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht. An illustrated Catalogue - UTRECHT. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Illuminated and Decorated Mediaeval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht.
		The manuscript collection contains some 700 codices, over half of which originated in the monastery libraries of the mediaeval bishopric of Utrecht.
		This catalogue, modelled on those of the Bodleian Library, presents all the essential information on the miniatures, marginalia and other decorations in 132 MSS from the northern Netherlands, and 49 others from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and Italy.
	www.antiqbook.co.uk /boox/isl/80.shtml (146 words)

	Fidelis et Verus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His own alleged reason for declining these preferments was that he thought the Anglican Church too favourable to Roman doctrine, and that he could not bring himself to kneel at the communion service.
		Archbishop of Utrecht and military vicar of Holland, December 6, 1975.
		Consecrated, July 17, 1951, Utrecht, by Paolo Giobbe, titular archbishop of Tolemaide di Tebaide, nuncio-internuncio in Holland.
	www.catholicbook.com /fidelis_et_verus1.htm (6251 words)

	Timeline of the Netherlands - Sacred Destinations
		The counts of Holland and Zeeland and the bishopric of Utrecht begin to gain greater control of their own affairs.
		Public Catholic worship is outlawed and churches are confiscated.
		The Union of Utrecht unites the seven provinces of the northern Low Countries.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /netherlands/netherlands-timeline.htm (943 words)

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