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    The Bishopric of Merseburg was an episcopal see on the eastern border of the medieval Duchy of Saxony with its centre in Merseburg, where Merseburg Cathedral...
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    affiliations Bishopric of Merseburg 1004-1565  Electorate of Saxony 1565-1657 Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg 1657-1738 Poland-Saxony 1738-1763  Electorate of Saxony...
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    Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III and Henry II. It contains a detailed history of the Bishopric of Merseburg, and of the wars against the...
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    Merseburg Cathedral (German: Merseburger Dom) is the proto-cathedral of the former Bishopric of Merseburg in Merseburg, Germany. The mostly Gothic church...
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    several bishops, including those of Mainz, Halberstadt, Münster, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Olmütz, and Bishop Anselm of Havelberg. While their stated goal...
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  • Prince-Bishopric of Merseburg, Lutheran administrators since 1544, secularised and merged into the Electorate of Saxony in 1565 Prince-Bishopric of Minden...
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    Hochstift (category Prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire)
    997-1648 Prince-Bishopric of Passau, 999-1803 Prince-Bishopric of Sion, 999-1648 Prince-Bishopric of Merseburg, 1004-1565 Prince-Bishopric of Trent, 1004-1803...
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    of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna. In 1544, Maurice secured the appointment of his brother as administrator of the bishopric of Merseburg;...
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    most of the Saxon portion of the former County of Henneberg around Suhl, which formed a second Thuringian exclave the former bishoprics of Merseburg and...
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    the death of the Bishop of Halberstadt in November 996, who had been one of the masterminds behind the abolition of the bishopric of Merseburg, Otto III...
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