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| Episcopal Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (sometime incorrectly referred to as duchy)Biskupie Księstwo Warmińskie (pl) Fürstbistum Ermland (de) Dioecesis Varmiensis (la) | |||||||||
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| 1243–1772 | |||||||||
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 Exempt Prince-Bishopric of Warmia in 1635. (In red on a map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) | |||||||||
| Status | 1243 Bishopric, 1356 Prince-Bishopric under Archbishopric Riga, 1512 Exempt under Pope | ||||||||
| Capital | 1243-1945 Frauenburg, since 1972 Olsztyn (Allenstein) | ||||||||
| Common languages | Latin Language, German, after 1945 Polish | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
| • Established | Prussian Bishopric 1243 Arch-Bishopric 1356, Bishopric 1772or 1806? 1243 | ||||||||
| • Prussian Bishopric founded as protectorate of Teutonic | 1243 | ||||||||
| • Gained Reichsfreiheit | 1356 | ||||||||
| • Subjugated to the protectorate of Polish Crown | 1479 | ||||||||
| • by Prussia | 1525 | ||||||||
| • annexed by Prussia | August 5 1772 | ||||||||
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The Fürstbistum Ermland (translation:) Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, sometimes incorrectly compared to as Episcopal Duchy of Warmia (Template:Lang-pl) (Template:Lang-de) , sometimes incorrectly Duchy of Warmia or the Bishopric of Warmia was a seperate Prussian bishopric under jurisdiction of Archbishopric of Riga that was a protectorate of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and a protectorate of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Peace of Thorn in 1466
After the Union of Lublin in 1569, the Episcopal Duchy of Warmia is in some Polish sources assumed to have been directly included as part of the Polish crown within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, however it was an exemt bishopric.
Since the bishopric however had received Prince-Bishopric status by emperor Charles the IV in 1356 and it went to the imperial diet in 1447 as of German Nation, it applied to the pope and received exempt status in 1512. It was not a an integral part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was just under its protection.
The kings or sejm of Poland many time put Ermland bishops under pressure in order to annex. However all bishops had to be educated and have knowledge of Prussian laws before becoming Ermland bishops and all of them protected the Ermland independence and the many legal differences from neighbouring lands. The Ermland bishops were presidents of the Prussian Landtage.
History
Along with Culm, Pomesania, and Samland, Ermland Latin: Warmia was one of four dioceses in Prussia created in 1243 by the papal legate William of Modena. The four Prussian bishoprics were under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Riga.
After the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, both the Sambian and Warmian bishops paid temporary homage to Jogaila of Poland and Lithuania.
The Second Peace of Thorn (1466) removed the bishopric from the protectorship of the Teutonic Knights and placed it under the protectorship of the King of Poland. The bishops insisted on their imperial privileges and continued ruling the territory as prince-bishops although the Polish king did not like to share this point of view. This led to conflict when the Polish king claimed the right to name the bishops, as he did in the Kingdom of Poland. The chapter did not accept this and elected Nicolaus von Tüngen as bishop, which led to the War of the Priests (Warmia Stift Feud, 1467-1479) between King Casimir IV Jagiellon (1447–1492) and Nikolaus von Tüngen (1467-89) who was supported by the Teutonic Order and King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
The Polish king accepted Tüngen as prince-bishop in the First Treaty of Piotrków Trybunalski, while Tüngen inversely accepted the Polish king's suzerainty and obliged the chapter to elect only candidates approved by the Polish king. However, when Tüngen died in 1489, the chapter elected Lucas Watzenrode as bishop and Pope Innocent VIII supported Watzenrode against the wishes of Casimir IV Jagiellon, who preferred his son Frederic. This problem finally led to the exemption of the bishopric in 1512 by Pope Julius II. In the Second Treaty of Piotrków Trybunalski (December 7, 1512) Warmia conceded to King Alexander Jagiellon the limited right to propose four candidates to the chapter for the election.
By 1525 the Bishopric of Warmia had lost two-thirds of its parishes due to to the inhabitants for the most part becoming protestants and the Order's Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach secularized the Order's remaining Prussian territories to create the Duchy of Prussia during the Protestant Reformation.
After the Council of Trent the later cardinal Stanislaus Hosius (1551-79) held a diocesan synode (1565) and the same year he brought the Jesuits to Braunsberg. While nearly all of Prussia took on evangelical Protestant religion, the prince-bishops Hosius and Cromer and the Jesuits were instrumental in keeping or regaining much of Warmia's population to Catholicism. The Congregation of St. Catherine, founded at Braunsberg by Regina Protmann, engaged in education, especially schooling for girls.
Several times in the 17th and early 18th centuries Ermland/Warmia was exposed to fighting between Polish and Sweden troops in the Polish-Swedish wars mostly on Prussian soil.
By the late 18th century, the prince-bishop was an ex officio Senator of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth <reference?>.
As a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the Fuerstbistum Ermland /prince-bishopric of Warmia was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia's province of East Prussia as bishopric of Ermland. Under the Potsdam Agreement in 1945 Ermland was conquered along with all eastern Germany and the people were expelled. The bishopseat of Ermland remained vacant.
In 1972 a Polish bishopric of Warmia was installed. In 1992 this became archbishopric of Warmia.
See also
References
- Hirshfeld, Alan. Parallax. Macmillan. ISBN 9780716737117.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Biskupie Księstwo Warmińskie @ Google books
- Fürstbistum Ermland @ Google books
- Lukowski, Jerzy (2006). A Concise History of Poland. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521853323.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Osmańczyk, Edmund Jan (2003). Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415939218.
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