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Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht

ecclesiastic state of the Holy Roman Empire

17 dated entries naming Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, drawn from 17 separate years between 854 CE and 1527 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.

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9th century

  • 854Liudger, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)source
  • 897Balderic, bishop of Utrecht (died 975)source
  • 898Adalbold I, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)source

10th century

  • 975Adalbold II, bishop of Utrecht (died 1026)source
  • 978Otto II has the three insurrectionists punished at Magdeburg. Henry II is stripped of all his possessions and imprisoned in the custody of Bishop Folcmar of Utrecht. The other two: Henry III (the Younger) loses his duchy to Otto I and Henry I, bishop of Augsburg, is arrested and imprisoned in Werden Abbey (Germany).source
  • 990December 10 – Folcmar (Poppo), bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 995May 10 – Baldwin I (or Boudewijn), bishop of Utrechtsource

12th century

  • 1150November 12 – Hartbert van Bierum, bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1156January 31 – Herman van Horne, bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1178May 27 – Godfrey van Rhenen, bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1196April 30 – Baldwin II van Holland, bishop of Utrechtsource

13th century

  • 1215September 1 – Otto I, bishop of Utrecht (born 1194)source
  • 1227July 28 – Battle of Ane: Forces of the Bishopric of Utrecht are defeated by the rebellious Drenths led by Rudolph van Coevorden near Ane (modern Netherlands). The Drenths lure the Bishop's forces, supported by heavily armoured knights, in an ambush into a swampy area and kill Bishop Otto II of Lippe. After the battle, Otto's successor, Wilbrand van Oldenburg, rouses the Frisian people into supporting the war against the Drenths.source
  • 1233July 26 – Wilbrand of Oldenburg, prince-bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1254The construction of the Cathedral of Saint Martin is initiated by Henry I van Vianden, bishop of Utrecht.source

14th century

  • 1323March 6 – Treaty of Paris: Count Louis I relinquishes Flemish claims over the County of Zeeland. He acknowledges William II the Good as count of Avesnes, Holland, and Zeeland as a state within the Holy Roman Empire. William occupies most of the Bishopric of Utrecht and tries to conquer Friesland (or Frisia) but is repelled by Governor Hessel Martena.source

16th century

  • 1527November 15 – The lands of the Bishopric of Utrecht, now in the Netherlands, are ceded to control of the Habsburgs in return for assistance in suppressing a rebellion by the citizens of Utrecht.source

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