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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Archbishop
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop, responsible for all churches belonging to a religious group of a particular district.
The diocese of which an archbishop is head is called a metropolitan see; the archbishop himself may be called a metropolitan.
Typically the metropolitan see is the largest city in a region composed of several dioceses, and the man appointed as archbishop has usually served as bishop of a smaller diocese previously.
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  William, Archbishop of Mainz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William (929 – 2 March 968) was Archbishop of Mainz from 17 December 954 until his death.
William received confirmation from Pope Agapetus II and also the title of Apostolic Vicar of Germany, a title which made the archbishops of Mainz the pope's deputies in Germany and granted the archdiocese of Mainz the title of Holy See.
William died at Rottleberode in 968 and was buried in the Abbey of St Alban.
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 Mainz
In 451 Mainz was pillaged by the Huns.
William (954-68), natural son of Otto I, acquired for himself and his successors the office of Archchancellor of the Empire.
Under French rule, Mainz was changed into a simple diocese in Oct., 1802, and made subject to Mechlin, its jurisdiction being confined to that portion of the old archdiocese which lay on the left bank of the Rhine.
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 William I of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
William succeeded to his father’s Duchy of Normandy at the young age of 7 1035 and was known as Duke William of Normandy.
Upon the death of William's cousin King Edward the Confessor of England (January 1066) William claimed the throne of England that the childless Edward had named him heir during a visit by William (probably 1052) and that Harold Godwinson England's foremost magnate had reportedly pledged support while shipwrecked in Normandy (c.
William was succeeded in 1087 as King of England by his son William II and as Duke of Normandy by elder son Robert Curthose who had earlier rebelled.
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 Archbishop
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop, responsible for all churches belonging to a religious group of a particular district.
The diocese of which an archbishop is head is called a metropolitan see; the archbishop himself may be called a metropolitan.
Typically the metropolitan see is the largest city in a region composed of several dioceses, and the man appointed as archbishop has usually served as bishop of a smaller diocese previously.
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 Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Archbishop of Cologne and Imperial Elector (1238-1261), and son of Count Lothar of Hochstadt and Mathilde of Vianden, date of birth unknown; d.
During the first few months of his reign the new archbishop was on the side of the emperor in his conflict with Pope Gregory IX, but for unknown reasons went over to the papal party shortly after the emperor's excommunication (12 March, 1239).
With all the means of a powerful and unscrupulous prince, Conrad attempted to dethrone William and would probably have been successful had not the king's premature death made the intrigues of the archbishop unnecessary.
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 Marcus Antonius to Maite - tobg60.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William married Gerletta de Normandie daughter of Rollo Rognvaldsson (Rolf the Ganger), 1st Duke of Normandy and Lady Poppa de Valois.
Gerletta married William II "the Younger" of Auvergne son of Acfred, Comte de Razès and Adelinde.
William married Gerberge d'Anjou daughter of Geoffrey Grisegonelle, Comte d'Anjou, Comte de Gerberge, Comte de Gâtinais and Adelaide de Vermandois, Comtesse de Chalons.
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 Marcus Antonius to Maite - tobg64.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William married (1) Almodie de Limoges daughter of Geberaud de Limoges and Rothilde in 997.
William VI "the Fat" (Guillaume de Guyenne), Duke of Aquitaine was born about 1004.
William married (2) Brisque de Gascoigne daughter of Guillaume Sancho de Gascoigne and Urraca de Navarra in 1006.
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 Timelines - Henry I
A fourth son, Henry, was born to William I and Matilda of Flanders at Selby, Yorkshire.
William died in France from wounds received at the siege of Mantes.
William I was buried in St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, Normandy.
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 MAINZ (Fr. Mayence) - Online Information article about MAINZ (Fr. Mayence)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Mainz is the seat of the administrative and judicial authorities of the See also:
War Mainz was occupied by the Swedes in 1631 and by the French in 1644, the fortifications being strengthened by the former under Gustavus See also:
There were several violent contests between rivals anxious to secure so splendid a position as the electorate, and the pretensions of the archbishops occasionally moved the citizens of Mainz to revolt.
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 Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
His friendship with St. Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, accounts for the intimate knowledge that St. Boniface had of the evil life of Ethelbald, which prompted the saint to correspond with the king in the hope of inducing him to reform.
A chapel was the built at the east end of the cathedral dedicated to St. John the Baptist to serve as the baptistery, the court of the archbishops and their place of burial.
A letter of his to Lullus, Archbishop of Mainz, is still extant and also two short poems preserved by William of Malmesbury.
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 Europe's 12th-Century Development by Sanderson Beck
Archbishop Ruthard of Mainz had allowed more than six hundred Jews to be massacred, and his relatives had confiscated their property; so he fled and joined the Emperor's enemies in Saxony and Thuringia.
William II of Sicily had furthered diplomatic relations in 1177 by marrying Joan, daughter of England's king Henry II, and in 1184 he betrothed Roger's daughter Constance to Friedrich's son Henry.
William Peverel fled Nottingham to live in a monastery, and Roger of Hereford was persuaded by Bishop Gilbert Foliot to surrender his castles.
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 Towns and Defence in Later Medieval Germany
Mainz’s fifteenth-century debt crisis and the inner turmoil it provoked was closely connected with military expenditure.
In Mainz landlords were expected under an ordinance of 1494 to keep their guests under surveillance.
In the course of the Sost feud of 1444-9 the Archbishop of Cologne, Dietrich of Mors was twice driven by lack of provisions to abandon a siege.
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 Page3.html
of William VI, Langrave Hesse-Cassel and Hedwig Sophia [House of von Hohenzollern.
Sophia, nee Doenhoff,, was fourth wife [morgantic} wife of Frederick William II [House of von Hohenzollern] (b.
William of Prussia [House of von Hohenzollern], Prince of Prussia
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 Mar. 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In the case of England, the conquest by William is of primary importance.
Tierney's account gives a positive evaluation of William, but it is also true that he did not accomplish what he did without the most appalling violence against the Saxons.
The first, the founding of Cluny, is an example of church reform instituted by a layman, William of Aquitaine, who is anxious to account for the welfare of his soul and at the same time endow a monastery that will have no interference from the local nobility.
www.stolaf.edu /people/carringt/30-212/Mar09.html   (510 words)

  
 William, Archbishop of Mainz: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
William (Wilhelm), the son of emperor Otto I the Great and a Slav mother, acceded as archbishop of Mainz in 954/5 and died in 968.
The archbishops of Mainz were the metropolitan bishops for the newly established diocese of Prague in Bohemia.
The territory of Bohemia had previously been part of the diocese of Regensburg.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
Archbishop Langton and the Justiciar Hubert were opposed by a party led by Peter des Roches and Earl Ranulf of Chester.
Minorca surrendered in 1232, and the Archbishop of Tarragona led the Catalan nobles that conquered Ibiza in 1235.
The Archbishop's cause was taken up by South Jutland dukes, the Count of Holstein, and the Prince of Rügen, and in the ensuing war Christopher died in 1259.
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 the age of incunabula
Johann Gutenberg was born during the last decade of the fourteenth century in Mainz, Germany, where he came from a notable patrician family.
In 1465 he began receiving a pension from the Archbishop of Mainz, which he received until his death, in Mainz, on 3 February 1468.
William Caxton was the first printer to use woodcut illustration in England, where editions with pictures did not appear until about 1481.
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 Subject Index Page 82. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
William I, German emperor and king of Prussia
William II, duke of Württemberg and king of Lithuania
William of Orange, later William III of England
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Landing of William III at Torbay: Escape of James II to France, 1688, Sorry this item is sold.
King William III and the State of Britain after the Peace of Ryswick, 1697, Sorry this item is sold.
William Shakespeare: Shakespeare Festival at Stratford under the Stewardship of David Garrick, 1769, Sorry this item is sold.
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 Calendar of the Church Year, according to the Episcopal Church
Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg,, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865
Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda and Martyr, 1977
Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
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 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne, and Salzburg
The three Archbishops all participated in the subsequent crowning of a new Emperor, as seen in the 1764 coronation of Joseph II at right, though they were really crowning him King of the Romans (originally King of the Eastern Franks).
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the Primate of England.
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 The Stained Glass in Saint Paul’s Church, Brighton
As archbishop of Mainz, he is shown holding a foliate cross representing the oak sacred to the pagan Germans which he cut down just before he was martyred.
910-988) a Benedictine, abbot of Glastonbury, bishop of Worcester, archbishop of Canterbury.
A great scholar who was exiled by both William Rufus and Henry I, he was declared a doctor of the Church.
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 Index to Lesser Feasts
3 Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865
19 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012
7 Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
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 William Tyndale Reformation History Timeline
William Tyndale (age 12?) enters Magdalen College at Oxford; as a youth “singularly addicted to the scriptures”, he reads the Bible in English (translating from the Latin Vulgate) to his fellow students (11 years prior to Luther’s 95 Thesis).
Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the bequest of the King Henry VIII commissions Myles Coverdale to publish a large pulpit Bible.
An attempt by Cardinal Pole (Mary's archbishop of Canterbury) to restore monasticism fizzles when, among 1500 surviving monks, nuns, and friars, fewer than 100 are willing to return to celibacy.
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 THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE REFORMATION
When the archbishop of Mainz protested, the emperor relented and asked that the opinions of learned men and universities be solicited on the question.
Reuchlin, as one of those whose opinions were requested, objected to the harsh measures being taken and repeated his plea for gentle methods of conversion, urging also the appointments of professors of Hebrew in the universities.
William Grocyn studied in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent under Poliziano, one of the most distinguished scholars of the day.
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 Pope John XIII
The marriage took place at Rome, and was blessed by the pope himself on 14 April, 972.
After the death of Archbishop William of Mainz and Bishop Bernard of Halberstadt in 968, the new metropolitan see at Magdeburg in Slavic territory, for which the emperor had worked zealously and which had been confirmed by the pope, was finally realized.
On Christmas Day, 968, Abbot Adalbert was consecrated first Archbishop of Magdeburg, and in turn consecrated the first Bishops of Merseburg, Meissen, and Zeitz.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Honorius II
Only after all the cardinals acknowledged him as the legitimate pope could he be prevailed upon to retain the tiara.
Honorius II excommunicated the archbishop as well as Conrad and his adherents, thus completely frustrating Conrad's unlawful aspirations.
The pope was less successful in his dealings with Count Roger of Sicily, who tried to gain possession of the lands which his deceased cousin William of Apulia had bequeathed to the Apostolic See.
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 Voynich MS - Biographies
Kircher says, when recording these incidents, that his early deliverances from death were nothing short of miraculous, and that already in his youth he felt favored by God and marked out for some special destiny (45).
When the Elector Archbishop of Mainz paid a visit to the College, Kircher, who already loved mechanical inventions, arranged an astonishing display of moving scenery and fireworks.
Others were more welcome, such as the English Jesuit and Royalist William Gascoignes (inventor of the micrometer eye-piece for telescopes), the French painter Nicolas Poussin, whom Kircher instructed in perspective, and Caspar Schott, Kircher's pupil from Würzburg days and the editor of his unpublished papers.
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Four candidates are competing: Condé; the czarevich; Charles of Lorraine; and Philip William von Neuburg.
The Archbishop of Mainz, Johann Philipp von Schönborn, promotes the candidature of the Count Palatine Philip William von Neuburg.
In these circumstances, Boineburg, having introduced the young Leibniz into the Mainz court, asks him for a defence of this candidature.
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 What the cardinals believe
Archbishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
László Cardinal Paskai, O.F.M. Archbishop Emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
Archbishop of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh, Viêt Nam
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