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Bishopric of Brandenburg was a diocese established by Otto the Great in 948, including the territory between the Elbe on the west, the Oder on the east, and the Black Elster on the south, and taking in the Uckermark to the north.

History

It was originally under the archiepiscopal jurisdiction of Mainz, but in 968 was transferred to that of Magdeburg. The disturbances of 983 practically annihilated it; bishops continued to be named, but they were merely titular, until the downfall of the Wends in the twelfth century and the German settlement of that region revived the bishopric. Bishop Wigers (1138–60) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian order; which chose the occupants of the see until 1447; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation. The last actual bishop was Matthias von Jagow (d. 1544), who took the side of the Reformation, married, and in every way furthered the undertakings of Elector Joachim II. There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularization of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to have the bishopric declared immediately dependent on the empire and so to preserve it, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

Bishops of Brandenburg until 1200

Dietmar (949-968) Dodilo (968-980) Volkmar (980-1004) Wigo (992-1018) Luizo (1022-1032) Rudolf ( -1048) Dankwart ( -1051) Dietrich I (1068-1080) Volkmar II (1080-1092) Hartbert (1100-1122) Ludolf (1124-1137) Landbert (1137-1138) Wiggar (1138-1160) Wilman (1160-1173) Sigfried I (1173-1179) Baldran (1179-1190) Alexius (1190-1192) Norbert (1192-1207)

Bishops of Havelberg Brandenburg

Udo 946 - 983 Hildrich 991 -1008 Erich 1008 -1024 Godschalk 1028 -1085 Wigmann -1089 Hezilo 1096 -1110 Bernhard 111? -1118 Heimo 1118 -1120 Gumbert 1120 -1125 Anshelm 1129 -1155 Walo 1155 -1176 Hubert 1177 -1191 Helmbert 1191 -1206

Margraves Lausitz

Margraves of Brandenburg

Siegfried 936 - 937 Christian 937 - 945 Gero 937 - 965 Dietrich 965 - 985 Lothar 985 -1003 Werner 1003 -1009 Bernard I 1018 -1044 Wilhelm 1044 -1056 Lothar Udo I 1056 -1057 Udo II 1057 -1082 Heinrich 1082 -1106 Lothar UdoIII 1087 -1106 Rudolph 1106 -1114 Henrich II 1114 -1128 Udo IV 1128 -1130 Conrad Plotzkau 1130-1133

Ascanians

Ascanians Albert the Bear 1134-1170 Saxony 1138-1142

References

• This article includes content derived from the public domain Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1914.

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