Bilateral treaties were concluded with the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, the Archbishopric of Mainz, Palatinate-Neuburg, the Electorate of Brandenburg, the Electorate of Cologne, in which these Imperial States pledged to deny their territories to foreign troops and to push for imperial neutrality in the Reichstag.

The Dutch were thus also deprived of their important transit trade with the neutral Prince-Bishopric of Liège ( then not a part of the Southern Netherlands ) and the German hinterland in these years.

Geneva was a Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire from 1154, but from 1290, secular authority over the citizens was divided from the bishop's authority, at first only lower jurisdiction, the office of vidame given to François de Candie in 1314, but from 1387 the bishops granted the citizens of Geneva full communal self-government.

The Castle of Ziesar ( Burg Ziesar ), now a museum also showing the history of the Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg.

In the subsequent Treaty of Marienburg ( June 1656 ), Charles X Gustav promised to cede to Frederick William the voivodships of Chełmno, Malbork, Pomerellia, and the Prince-Bishopric of Ermland, if Frederick William would support Charles Gustav's effort.

As of 1864, Holstein bordered Denmark in the north, the Principality of Lübeck ( formerly the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ), the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, and the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg in the east, and the Kingdom of Hanover and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the south.

composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège ( present-day Belgium ), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality.

This region comprised most of modern Belgium excepting the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the County of Bouillon and Luxembourg ( including the homonymous present Belgian province ), and in addition some parts of the Netherlands ( namely the Duchy of Limburg, now divided between the Dutch province of Limburg and the Belgian provinces of Liège and Limburg ) as well as, until 1678, most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.

It was composed of the County of Hainaut ( half of which was annexed by France under Louis XIV ), the County of Namur, the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy, the southern part of the Duchy of Brabant and the western part of the Duchy of Luxembourg.

* The Danish heir to the throne, Frederick II Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden ( 1634-1645 ) and of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen ( 1635-1645 ), had to resign, with the two prince-bishoprics being occupied by the Swedes.

These were in Aurich, a simultaneously Lutheran and Calvinist consistory dominated by Lutherans ( for East Frisia ) and the Lutheran consistories in Hanover ( for the former Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg proper ), in Ilfeld ( for the County of Hohenstein, a Hanoverian exclave in the Eastern Harz mountains ), in Osnabrück ( for the former Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück ), in Otterndorf ( existed 1535 – 1885 for the Land of Hadeln ) as well as in Stade ( existed 1650 – 1903, until 1885 for the former Bremen-Verden proper without Hadeln, then including the complete Stade region ).

Swedish Deluge ), promised to cede to Frederick William the Polish Prussian voivodeships of Chełmno, Malbork, and Pomerania as well as the Prince-Bishopric of Ermeland, if Frederick William supported the Swedish campaign.

* perron ( architecture ), a column built in cities belonging to the Prince-Bishopric of Liège ( 980-1795 )

The Peace also included the Danish heir to the throne, Frederick II, Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden ( 1634 – 1645 ) and of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen ( 1635 – 1645 ), who had to resign, with the two prince-bishoprics being occupied by the Swedes.

* Ulrik of Denmark ( 1611 – 1633 ), administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin, military

* Ulrik of Denmark ( 1578 – 1624 ), Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin

* Ulrik of Denmark ( 1611 – 1633 ), Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin

Pope Adrian VI was born in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in the Low Countries, and he was the last non-Italian Pope until Pope John Paul II, 455 years later, and is, together with Pope Marcellus II, one of only two modern popes to retain his baptismal name after election.

The Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg was the last state in Northern Germany remaining Catholic.

* Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt, Lutheran administrators 1566-1628, after the rule of the last, however, Catholic administrator, secularised as Principality of Halberstadt in 1648

* Prince-Bishopric of Minden, Lutheran administrators between 1554 and 1631, after the rule of the last, however, Catholic prince-bishop, secularised as Principality of Minden in 1648

* Prince-Bishopric of Verden, Lutheran bishop and administrators between 1574 and 1630, and, after the rule of the last, however, Catholic prince-bishop, from 1631 on, secularised as Principality of Verden in 1648

Werne, which had come under the administration of Prussia in 1803 when the Prince-Bishopric of Münster had been dissolved, was attached to the Grand Duchy of Berg by Napoleon in 1806.

Some time before 803, the city became seat of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück.

In the 10th century, Charles the Simple ceded the Marquisate of Franchimont to the bishop of Liège, just before the creation of the Prince-Bishopric.

: For the Prince-Bishop who ruled before 1818, see Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg.

It briefly became a republic ( the Liège Republic ) from 1789 to 1791, before reverting to a Prince-Bishopric in 1791 then being annexed by France in 1795.

Though the town of Ratzeburg was part of the Ratzeburg diocese, the town itself was not within the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg, but formed a part of the old Duchy of Saxony and became part of its dynastic partition of Saxe-Lauenburg around 1296, remaining with this duchy under altering dynasties until 1876.

Flemish Austrian troops under Major General ( later Field Marshal ) Johann von Moitelle arrested Lafayette's party the evening of 17 August at Rochefort, Belgium, at that time a village in the officially neutral Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

The Low Countries ( with Prince-Bishopric of Liège | Liège, Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy | Stavelot-Malmedy and County of Bouillon | Bouillon ) under Spanish and Austrian rule

The Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (, ) was a semi independent ecclesiastical state, a Prussian bishopric under the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Riga that was a protectorate of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights ( 1243 – 1466 ) and a protectorate of Kingdom of Poland, later part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Peace of Thorn ( 1466-1772 )

1040 was also when the first clear mention of the county of Loon appeared, with Emperor Henry III treating it as land held under the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

Windthorst was born at Kaldenhof manor in the present-day municipality of Ostercappeln, in the lands of the former Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück, which had been securalised to the Electorate of Hanover under the Protestant Welf dynasty in 1803.

Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg | Prince-Bishop of Augsburg.

It convened in Trent ( the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent of the Holy Roman Empire, in Italy ) between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods.

Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens was born on 2 March 1459 in the city of Utrecht, which was then the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, a part of the Burgundian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire.

It housed the Chapter of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster.

Osnabrück was a bidenominational Lutheran and Catholic city, with two Lutheran and two Catholic churches for its mostly Lutheran burghers and exclusively Lutheran city council and the Catholic Chapter of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück with pertaining other clergy and also other Catholic inhabitants.

* May 29 – Thirty Years ' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution.

* Foundation by Notger of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège which will remain an independent state inside the Holy Roman Empire for more than 800 years, and where the Walloon language will develop.

Most of the small and ecclesiastical states in the Holy Roman Empire were given to larger states at this time, and this included the Prince-Bishopric of Liège which became now formally part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Thomas died in 1471 near Zwolle in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, seventy-five miles north of his birthplace.

Ernest Augustus died on 23 January 1698 leaving all of his territories to George with the exception of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück, an office he had held since 1661.

Sketch map of Hanover, c. 1720, showing the relative locations of Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg | Hanover, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück.

This state, a large part of which still exists today as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was made up of the former Dutch Republic ( Republic of the Seven United Netherlands ) to the north, the former Austrian Netherlands to the south, and the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

The Prince-Bishopric of Seckau was established in 1218 ; since 1786 the see of the prince-bishop has been Graz.

The Prince-Bishopric of Lavant with its bishop's seat at Sankt Andrä in the Carinthian Lavant valley was founded as a bishopric in 1228 and raised to a prince-bishopric in 1446.

In 1024 the bishops were made Princes of the Holy Roman Empire and the new Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht was formed.

Then he started theological studies in Breslau ( today's Wrocław ) at the episcopal see of his then home Prince-Bishopric of Breslau.

The largest of these was the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the green area on the map, including the County of Horne.

* The present-day Belgian province of Limburg belongs to present-day Flanders, but was part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was born at the castle of Burg Hülshoff ( now a part of Havixbeck ) in the Prince-Bishopric of Münster.

The Black Guard invaded the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, crossing through and ravaging areas in the Prince-Bishopric of Verden and the Brunswick-Lunenburgian Principality of Lunenburg-Celle, leaving behind a wake of devastation on the countryside and especially in the looted monasteries.