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Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen

ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire

15 dated entries naming Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, drawn from 14 separate years between 745 CE and 1311 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Archbishopric of Bremen, Hamburg-Bremen in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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8th century

  • 745Willehad, bishop of Bremen (approximate date)source
  • 789November 8 – Willehad, bishop of Bremensource

9th century

  • 804Summer – Emperor Charlemagne finishes the conquest of Saxony. The Carolingian administration in the north is restored and the diocese of Bremen is re-established. Venice, torn by infighting, switches allegiance from Constantinople to King Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne.source
  • 838May 4 ? – Willerich, bishop of Bremensource
  • 888June 11 – Rimbert, archbishop of Bremen (b. 830)source
  • 900Adaldag, archbishop of Bremen (approximate date)source

10th century

  • 909May 9 – Adalgar, archbishop of Bremensource
  • 936Archbishop Unni of Hamburg-Bremen visits the king of Denmark Gorm and the king of the Swedes Ring before he dies in Birka.source
  • 936September 17 – Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremensource
  • 988April 28 – Adaldag, archbishop of Bremensource

11th century

  • 1029January 27 – Unwan (or Unwin), archbishop of Hamburg-Bremensource

12th century

  • 1118Hartwig of Stade, archbishop of Bremen (d. 1168)source
  • 1184October 24 – Siegfried, prince-archbishop of Bremen (b. 1132)source

13th century

  • 1227July 22 – Battle of Bornhöved: Count Adolf IV of Holstein – leading a coalition army from the cities of Lübeck and Hamburg, defeats the Danish-German forces of King Valdemar II, and the Welf nobleman Otto I (the Child). Adolf shakes off Danish supremacy and accepts an overlordship by the Archbishopric of Bremen under Archbishop Gerhard II of Lippe. Adolf expands his power and establishes new frontiers within the Holy Roman Empire.source

14th century

  • 1311November 23 – Pope Clement V appoints Jens Grand, the Danish-born Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, as the arbiter of a dispute between the Archbishopric of Riga (at the time of Terra Mariana, now the Republic of Latvia) and Teutonic Prussia (now part of Poland).source

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