The Archbishopric of Riga (Latin: Archiepiscopatus Rigensis, Low German: Erzbisdom Riga) was an archbishopric in Medieval Livonia, a subject to the Holy...
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Terra Mariana (category State of the Teutonic Order)
of Modena divided Terra Mariana into feudal principalities: the Duchy of Estonia (dominum directum to the king of Denmark); the Archbishopric of Riga;...
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Johannes Ambundii (category Archbishops of Riga)
Johannes VI Ambundii, Archbishopric of Riga 1418-1424, secular name Johannes Ambundii de Swan, also Abundi, Ambundij, Habundi, Habendi, Habindi, Almanni...
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga is an archdiocese administered from the capital city of Riga in Latvia. Its cathedral is Svētā Jēkaba Katedrāle...
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ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Riga from 1253. One of the five members of the Livonian Confederation, the state was administratively...
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Turaida Castle (redirect from Castle of Turaida)
of Riga allied with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under command of Vytenis. By the end of the 13th century, the territory of the Archbishopric of Riga...
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Livonian Crusade (redirect from Conquest of Estonia)
of the Archbishopric of Riga in 1214, and in 1224 was finally divided between the Archbishopric and the Order. Baltic tribes, c. 1200. Lands of Tālava...
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Livonian Order (redirect from Order of Livonia)
the summer of that year, the Master of Prussia Hermann Balk rode into Riga to install his men as castle commanders and administrators of Livonia. In...
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by the Archbishopric of Riga in the late 13th century. From the 16th century until 1918, Dundaga Castle (formerly Dundagen) was the centre of the largest...
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Livonia (redirect from History of Livonia)
into the Teutonic Knights in 1237); the Bishopric of Riga (an archbishopric from 1255); the Bishoprics of Courland, Ösel-Wiek, and Dorpat, where Albert's...
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Riga (/ˈriːɡə/ REE-gə) is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia. Home to 605,273 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's...
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Koknese Castle (category Castles of the Livonian Order)
Gert von Medem By the end of the 13th century, the territory of the Archbishopric of Riga, like that of the other bishoprics of Livonia, had become stable...
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Livonian War (redirect from War of Livonia)
Only the archbishopric of Riga successfully overcame resistance of the lesser nobles. Wilhelm von Brandenburg was appointed as Archbishop of Riga and Christoph...
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investiture with the newly elevated Archbishopric of Riga, Warmia - like a number of other Baltic dioceses - became Riga's suffragan. Warmia's first bishops...
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and the alliance of the Archbishopric of Riga and the town of Riga; 1298, a border war between the Livonian Order and the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek; 1374–1397...
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The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the...
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bishop of Riga (or possibly by Theoderich von Treydend). Pope Innocent III sanctioned the establishment in 1204 for the second time. The membership of the...
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Samland (Sambia). The bishoprics became suffragans to the Archbishopric of Riga under the mother city of Visby on Gotland. Each diocese was fiscally and administratively...
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Magnus the portions of Livonia he had taken possession of, along with Archbishop Wilhelm von Brandenburg of the Archbishopric of Riga and his coadjutor...
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Swedish Livonia (redirect from Duchy of Livonia (1629–1721))
of the Polish-Lithuanian Duchy of Livonia during the 1600–1629 Polish-Swedish War. Parts of Livonia and the city of Riga were under Swedish control as...
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lasted for almost two hundred years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the fall of Acre in 1291. Its history is divided into two periods...
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as a military society c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians...
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Crusades (category Medieval history of the Middle East)
series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these military...
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The Republic of Genoa (Ligurian: Repúbrica de Zêna [ɾeˈpybɾika de ˈzeːna]; Italian: Repubblica di Genova; Latin: Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval...
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men from the Livonian Order, Archbishopric of Riga, Danish Estonia, and local Curonian and Semigallian tribes. At the time of the campaign, Lithuania suffered...
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Northern Crusades (category Christianization of Europe)
Meinhard's successor, Bishop Berthold of Hanover, landed in Livonia (part of present-day Latvia, surrounding the Gulf of Riga) in 1198. Although the crusaders...
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Hochstift (redirect from Prince-archbishopric)
Bishopric of Courland, Bishopric of Dorpat, Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, and Archbishopric of Riga Prince-Bishopric of Warmia Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro...
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Selonians (category Medieval ethnic groups of Europe)
CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Šnore E., Zariņa A. Senā Sēlpils. Rīga: Zinātne, 1980. 236 lpp. "SELI". Archived from the original on 2007-11-03...
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Oultrejordain (redirect from Lordship of Oultrejordain)
set up an archbishopric under the authority of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. There were very few Christians in Oultrejordain, most of the inhabitants...
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The County of Tripoli (1102–1289) was one of the Crusader states. It was founded in the Levant in the modern-day region of Tripoli, northern Lebanon and...
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