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    The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Latin Catholic archdiocese (969–1552) and Prince-Archbishopric (1180–1680) of the Holy Roman Empire centered on the...
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    the Archbishopric of Magdeburg after its secularization by Brandenburg, giving to the Elector another influential seat to the Reichstag’s College of Princes...
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    recover its importance until well into the 18th century. The archbishopric of Magdeburg was established as an ecclesiastical principality in 968. In political...
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    founder of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, was buried in the city's cathedral after his death. Magdeburg's version of German town law, known as Magdeburg rights...
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    country. It is the proto-cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Today it is the principal church of the Evangelical Church in Central...
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    to the medieval Archbishopric of Magdeburg established in 968 AD. At the 967 synod of Ravenna, Emperor Otto I obtained the consent of Pope John XIII to...
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    commemoration of this, Norbert has been proclaimed the "Apostle of Antwerp". In 1126 Pope Honorius II appointed Norbert to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, where...
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    Wettin and administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. He was the fourth (but second surviving) son of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and his second...
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    Schönhausen and Fischbeck, located east of the Elbe river and formerly part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, which also had been under Hohenzollern...
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    structure with a metropolitan see at Gniezno, independent from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Bishoprics were also established in Kraków, Wrocław, and Kołobrzeg...
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    Duchy of Magdeburg within Brandenburg-Prussia Prince-Archbishopric of Besançon, 1184-1803, Catholic; territory lost to France in 1678 by the Treaties of Nijmegen...
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    the castle became a royal residence of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, who gave it to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg which he had established in 968. Halle...
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    ; Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, 24 September 1622 – Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, 11 February 1697) was a barber-surgeon and the father of Georg Frideric...
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    the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Bishopric of Halberstadt. The male line became extinct for the first time upon the death of Count Burchard of Mansfeld...
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    of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg over the Polish Church and the projected Pomeranian dioceses. The formal privilegium maius was the culmination of Norbert's...
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  • forces of Maurice, Elector of Saxony and Georg von Mecklenburg [de]  (POW), trying to reinstate the rule of the archbishopric Siege of Magdeburg (1631)...
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    Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt (category Oil campaign of World War II)
    Historical Affiliations Archbishopric of Magdeburg 1288-1680 Duchy of Magdeburg 1680-1807 Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1918 Province of Saxony 1815-1944 North...
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    Halle/Saale. The earliest documented mention of Halle dates from AD 806. It became a part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg in the 10th century and remained so...
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    him to hold both the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and Archbishopric of Mainz. This provided the Hohenzollerns with control over two of the seven electoral...
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    Lower Saxon Circle (category Circles of the Holy Roman Empire)
    Reformation the newly converted Archbishopric of Magdeburg was ruled from 1513 by administrators from the Brandenburg line of the House of Hohenzollern. Also, in...
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    Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim County of Hohenstein, seated in Hohenstein Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg County of Mansfeld...
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    Archbishopric of Magdeburg in 968, Halberstadt lost the eastern half of its district to it. Halberstadt diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of...
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    I founds the Archbishopric of Magdeburg at the synod of Ravenna. He appoints Adalbert as the archbishop of Magdeburg. The archbishopric under Adalbert...
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    Pope John XII (category Burials at the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran)
    synod in Rome at the behest of Emperor Otto. In it, John agreed to establish the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Bishopric of Merseburg, bestowed the pallium...
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    to John George, Elector of Brandenburg, and Sophie of Legnica. He served as administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg from 1566 to 1598, then succeeded...
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    secularized bishoprics of Halberstadt and Minden and the right of succession to the likewise secularized Archbishopric of Magdeburg. With Halberstadt, Brandenburg-Prussia...
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    had Magdeburg law or its derivative, Culm law. Later, the Livonian Confederation of 1435 to c. 1582 incorporated modern-day Estonia and parts of Latvia;...
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    have changed the rulers of the already secularized Archbishopric of Bremen and Archbishopric of Magdeburg, 12 bishoprics, and over 100 religious houses throughout...
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    the pope while another one holds that it was attached to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the nearest German ecclesiastical province. However, generally...
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    Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Brunswick. Gebhard XIV. von Alvensleben (mentioned 1393–1425) was part of...
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