Bishopric of Halberstadt
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The Bishopric of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese from 804 until 1648 and a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages until around 1800. Its capital was Halberstadt and it was located around the Harz.
The diocese was founded by Charlemagne in 804 in order to missionize Saxons and Slavs. Its capital was initially Osterwieck, but was soon moved to Halberstadt. When the Archbishopric of Magdeburg was founded in 968, Halberstadt lost the eastern half of its district to it, and was made subordinate to Magdeburg.
Around 1540 the Bishopric became Protestant. In the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, it was secularized as the Principality of Halberstadt, and given to the electors of Brandenburg. This was negotiated by Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal, the Great Elector's representative at the Westphalia negotiations, who was made Halberstadt's first secular governor as a reward. Around 1815, it was made part of the Brandenburgian Province of Saxony.
Bishops of Halberstadt
Bishops of Halberstadt include:
- Hildegrim I (809-827), first bishop
- Thiatgrim (827-840)
- Albert III (1366-1390)
- Albert of Mainz (1513-1545)
- Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1566-1613), Protestant
- Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1616-1623), Protestant
- Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1628-1648), Catholic, last bishop
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