He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.

As a result of the agitation, which was zealously fostered by the papal legate Bishop Altmann of Passau, the princes met in October at Trebur to elect a new German ruler.

* Georg Muffat ( 1653 – 1704 ) was Kapellmeister to the bishop of Passau from 1690 to his death.

This was in part the continuation of a policy begun under his grandfather, Pippin of Herstal, and continued to under his father, Charles Martel, who erected four dioceses in Bavaria ( Salzburg, Regensburg, Freising, and Passau ) and gave them Boniface as archbishop and metropolitan over all Germany east of the Rhine, with his seat at Mainz.

The " Nibelung's lament " ( Diu Klage ), a sort of appendix to the poem proper, mentions a " Meister Konrad " who was charged by a bishop " Pilgrim " of Passau with the copying of the text.

Until 1494 Sankt Pölten was part of the diocese of Passau, and then became the property of the state.

Despite long-standing resistance by the Bishops of Passau, who did not wish to lose control of the area, the Diocese of Vienna was canonically established on 18 January 1469, with St. Stephen's Cathedral as its mother church.

In 739, an English monk called Boniface founded the diocese of Passau and this was the largest diocese of the Holy Roman Empire for many years.

During the Renaissance and early modern period, Passau was one of the most prolific centres of sword and bladed weapon manufacture in Germany ( after Solingen ).

By the 17th century, Solingen was producing more wolf-stamped blades than Passau was.

Passau was subsequently rebuilt in the Baroque style.

Passau was secularised and divided between Bavaria and Salzburg in 1803.

Born in Passau, Bavaria, she spent her youth in Teplitz-Schönau / Teplice-Šanov, Czechoslovakia before joining her stepfather, Arnold Walter, in Berlin, where he was a music editor and critic for the leftist journals Die Weltbühne and Vorwärts.

While Arno was in Rome attending to some of Charlemagne's business in 798, Pope Leo III appointed him Archbishop over the other bishops in Bavaria ( Freising, Passau, Regensburg, and Säben ).

In medieval times Wolfstein ( east of the Ilz River ) was the property of the bishop of Passau.

This document was foreshadowed by the Peace of Passau, which in 1552 gave Lutherans religious freedom after a victory by Protestant armies.

It was not until 1552 that the Peace of Passau gave him his long-desired freedom and that he was able, on September 12, 1552, to reenter his capital, Kassel.

From 1690 to his death, he was Kapellmeister to the bishop of Passau.

This privilege made Prachatice the only town in Southern Bohemia that could buy the salt that was sent out of Passau.

From 870 to 873 the Byzantine Greek " Apostle of the Slavs " Saint Methodius was imprisoned in Ellwangen, after he had been arrested by Ermanrich, bishop of Passau.

The Diocese of Passau may be considered the successor of the ancient Diocese of Lorch ( Laureacum ).

The Diocese of Passau is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Germany.

Thenceforth, Vivilo resided permanently at Passau, on the site of the old Roman colony of Batavis.

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It is considered the first significant step in the process leading to the political and religious legitimization of Protestantism as a valid alternative Christian creed to Roman Catholicism finally realized in the 1552 Peace of Passau and the 1555 Peace of Augsburg.

The mysterious high-born Severinus is first recorded as travelling along the Danube in Noricum and Bavaria, preaching Christianity, procuring supplies for the starving, redeeming captives and establishing monasteries at Passau and Favianae, and hospices in the chaotic territories that were ravaged by the Great Migrations, sleeping on sackcloth and fasting severely.

They established a new capital called Boiodurum by the Romans ( form Gaulish Boioduron ), now within the Innstadt district of Passau.

In the negotiations at Passau in the summer of 1552, even the Catholic princes had called for a lasting peace, fearing the religious controversy would never be settled.

In the media, the ordained women were called the Danube Seven because they were ordained on the Danube River near the town of Passau on the border between Germany and Austria.

Their evangelizing mission in Moravia had by this time become the focus of a dispute with Theotmar, the Archbishop of Salzburg and bishop of Passau, who claimed ecclesiastical control of the same territory and wished to see it use the Latin liturgy exclusively.

Examples of Latinate vocabulary include Semmel or Semmi ( bread roll ) from the Latin simila " wheat flour ", Gaudi ( fun, joy ) from the Latin gaudium and toponyms like Regensburg ( Castra Regina ), Passau ( Castra Batavia ), Wels ( Ovilava ), Linz ( Lentia ), Wien ( Vindobona ).

With the ' Turks at the gates ' the Emperor fled for the safe refuge of Passau up the Danube, a more distant and secure part of his dominion.

For all his fame, Walther's name is not found in contemporary records, with the exception of a solitary mention in the travelling accounts of Bishop Wolfger of Erla of the Passau diocese: " Walthero cantori de Vogelweide pro pellicio v solidos longos "--" To Walther the singer of the Vogelweide five shillings for a fur coat.

In 1137, Bishop of Passau Reginmar and Margrave Leopold IV signed the Treaty of Mautern, which referred to Vienna as a Civitas for the first time and transferred the Church of St. Peter to the Diocese of Passau.

As a result, the whole practice of placing magical charms on swords to protect the wearers came to be known for a time as " Passau art.

Other cities ' smiths, including those of Solingen, recognized the marketing value of the Passau wolf and adopted it for themselves.

The city archives mention Hitler being in Passau on 4 different occasions in the 1920s for speeches.

A nice tradition for first-year students in Passau, many of whom come from outside Bavaria, is a welcome reception in the city hall with typical Bavarian foods: Leberkäse, Bavarian Pretzels ( which are different from the American ones ) and beer.

In 1917, the Landtag of Bavaria passed a law calling for the development of a major shipping route " between Aschaffenburg and Passau ", with the capacity to carry the 1, 200-ton ships used on the Rhine.

A precursor to the Peace of Augsburg of September, 1555, the Peace of Passau effectively surrendered Charles V's lifelong quest for European religious unity.

However, this extraordinary privilege was bound to the persons of Henry Jasomirgott and his wife Theodora Komnene ( dux Austrie patruus noster et uxor eius ) for life, as both had no children and Henry's brothers Otto of Freising and Conrad of Passau had chosen ecclesiastical careers.

Pope Benedict XVI, who had served ( as Joseph Alois Ratzinger ) as the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and Freising before his service as Blessed Pope John Paul II's Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( CDF ; the Holy Office ), was born and baptized on Holy Saturday, 16 April 1927, at Marktl am Inn, which is located within the Diocese of Passau, the son of a local policeman and his wife, the daughter of artisans.

He confirmed as incumbent of Passau, Bishop Vivilo, or Vivolus, who had been ordained by Pope Gregory III, and who was for a long time the only bishop in Bavaria.

His successor Piligrim ( 971-91 ), who worked successfully for the Christianization of Pannonia, aspired to free Passau from the metropolitan authority of Salzburg, but was completely frustrated in this, as well as in his attempt to assert the metropolitan claims which Passau was supposed to have inherited from Lorch, and to include all Hungary in his diocese.

Nevertheless, in a later addition to his autobiographies, published posthumously, he concedes that when he moved to Munich, not long after reestablishing his Passau practice he fully intended to give up medicine for the life of a ' freier Schriftsteller ': a wish which could not then become reality.

In the Exchange of Mautern between the Bishop of Passau and Margrave Leopold IV, Vienna is mentioned as a Civitas for the first time, which indicates the existence of a well-ordered settlement.

However, Elector John George I, anxious for his neutral position, forced him to retire to Passau.

The Margrave Albert Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ( who had rejected the Passau armistice ) soon afterwards conquered the bishoprics of Würzburg and Bamberg — which had been under his control for eleven years previously, after their former owner, John Frederick had ceded them to him — as well as the Imperial city of Nuremberg.