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Map of the territory of the archdiocese of Trier in 1651. The bishops of Trier were already virtually independent territorial magnates in Merovingian times. In 772 Charlemagne granted Bishop Wiomad complete immunity from the jurisdiction of the ruling count for all the churches and monasteries, as well as villages and castles that belonged to the Church of St. Peter at Trier.
On Henry's initiative, John was elected as archbishop of Trier in September 1189, replacing the see’s rival archbishops, the exiled (and soon to be deceased) Folmar of Karden and the imperial anti-archbishop Rudolf of Wied. He was formally confirmed the following year by Pope Clement III. Silver denier of John I
John I (archbishop of Trier) John of Burgundy (bishop of Cambrai) L. Leudwinus; Ludolf of Trier; M. Milo (bishop of Trier) P. Poppo (archbishop of Trier) R.
The Electorate of Trier (German: Kurfürstentum Trier or Kurtrier or Trèves) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the end of the 9th to the early 19th century. It was the temporal possession of the prince-archbishop of Trier (Erzbistum Trier) who was, ex officio, a prince-elector of the empire.
Henry I (died 3 July 964) was the Archbishop of Trier from 956 until his death. Henry was a member of the Popponids (Elder House of Babenberg). His brother was Poppo I, Bishop of Würzburg, and another possible brother was the Berthold of Schweinfurt. Henry was trained with Wolfgang, the future saint and Bishop of Regensburg, in the Abbey of ...
Arnold I of Vaucourt [1] (French: Arnaud, Arnaut de Vaucort, German: Arnold von Valcourt, Valancourt, Walecourt) (circa 1120 – May 25, 1183 in Trier), was the Archbishop of Trier from 1169 to 1183. He took a pro-Imperial position in the Investiture Controversy of the twelfth century. As archbishop, Arnold was accounted a capable ruler, by ...
Trier thereafter became one of the major destinations of Christian pilgrims. Archbishopric of Trier and County of Sponheim. During the Thirty Years' War, Archbishop-Elector Philip Christopher von Sotern favored France and accepted its protection in 1631. The following year, the French army drove all the Spanish and Swedish troops from the ...
Egilbert (or Engelbert) (died 1101), called of Rothenburg, was the Archbishop of Trier from 1079 until his death. He was a partisan of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy, and was rewarded in 1100 with the dignity of Archchancellor of Gaul.