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The
Archbishopric of Trier was a Roman Catholic
diocese in
Germany, that existed from
Carolingian times until the end of the
Holy Roman Empire. Its suffragans were the dioceses of
Metz,
Toul and
Verdun. Since the 9th century the Archbishops of Trier were simultaneously princes and since the 11th century
prince electors of the empire. Their temporal territories were known as the
Electorate of Trier (or
Kurtrier).
History
Trier, as the important Roman provincial capital of
Augusta Treverorum, had been the seat of a bishop since Roman times. It was raised to archiepiscopal status during the reign of
Charlemagne.
The bishops of Trier were already virtually independent territorial magnates in
Merovingian times. In 772 Charlemagne granted Bishop
Wiomad complete immunity from the jurisdiction of the ruling
count for all the churches and monasteries, as well as villages and castles that belonged to the Church of St. Peter at Trier. In 816
Louis the Pious confirmed to Archbishop
Hetto the privileges of protection and immunity granted by his father.
At the partition of the
Carolingian empire at
Verdun in 843, Trier fell to Lothair; at the partition of
Lotharingia at Mersen in 870, it fell to the East Frankish kingdom, which developed into Germany. 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 gift cemented the position of the archbishops as territorial lords in their own right. Following Zwentibold's assassination in 900, the handlers of the
child-king Louis courted Radbold in their turn, granting him the district and city of Trier outright, and the right to have a mint — as much a symbol of independent authority as an economic tool — and to impose customs-duties. From the court of
Charles the Simple he obtained the final right, that of election of the Bishop of Trier by the chapter, free of Imperial interference.
The last archbishop-elector removed to
Koblenz in 1786. From
1795, the territories of the Archbishopric on the left bank of the Rhine — which is to say almost all of them — were under French occupation, and were annexed in
1801 and a separate bishopric established (later assuming control of the whole diocese in 1803). In 1803, what was left of the Archbishopric was secularized and annexed by the Princes of
Nassau.
In 1821 the new
Diocese of Trier was created as a suffragan of the
archbishopric of Cologne.
Bishops of Trier
To 1000
1000 to 1300
Megingod 1008-1015
Poppo von Babenberg 1016-1047
Eberhard 1047-1066
Kuno I von Wetterau (Conrad) 1066-1066
Udo von Wetterau 1066-1078
Egilbert 1079-1101
Bruno 1101-1124
Gottfrid 1124-1127
Meginher 1127-1130
Adalberon von Munsterol 1131-1152
Hillin von Fallemanien 1152-1169
Arnold I 1169-1183
Fulmar 1183-1189
John I 1189–1212
Theodoric II (Dietrich von Wied) 1212–42
Arnold II von Isenburg 1242–59
Heinrich I von Finstingen 1260–86
Bohemond I von Warnesberg 1286–99
1300 to 1500
Diether von Nassau 1300–07
Heinrich III von Virneburg 1300–06 (in opposition)
Baldwin von Luxemburg 1307–54
Bohemond II von Saarbrücken 1354–61
Kuno II von Falkenstein 1362–88
Werner von Falkenstein 1388–1418
Otto von Ziegenhain 1418–30
Rhaban von Helmstadt 1430–38
Jakob von Sierk 1439–56
Johann II of Baden 1456–1503
From 1500
Jakob II of Baden 1503–11
Richard Greiffenklau zu Vollraths 1511–31
Johann III von Metzenhausen 1531–40
Johann Ludwig von Hagen 1540–47
Johann IV von Isenburg 1547–56
Johann V von der Leyen 1556–67
Jakob III von Eltz 1567–81
Johann VI von Schonenberg 1581–99
Lothar von Metternich 1599–1623
Philipp Christoph von Sotern 1623–52
Karl Kaspar von der Leyen 1652–76
Johann Hugo von Orsbeck 1676–1711
Charles Joseph of Lorraine 1711–15
Franz Ludwig of Palatinate-Neuburg 1716–29
Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim 1729–56
Johann Philipp von Walderdorf 1756–68
Clemens Wenzel of Saxony 1768–1803Further Information
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