Archbishopric of Regensburg

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Fürstentum / Kurfürsterzbistum Regensburg Principality / Archbishopric-Electorate of Regensburg State of the Holy Roman Empire ↓ 1803 – 1806 → Coat of arms Capital Regensburg Government Principality Prince-Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg Historical era Napoleonic Wars  - Created from all five     Reichsfrei territories     in Regensburg     1803  - Ceded to Bavaria on     Imperial collapse   January 6, 1806

The Archbishopric — or Principality — of Regensburg was a short-lived ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire which existed between 1803 and 1806.

The principality was created in Regensburg for Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the Prince-Primate of the Empire and the former Archbishop of Mainz, due to the annexation of Mainz itself by the French under the Treaty of Lunéville. The new archbishopric consisted of the territory of the old Bishopric of Regensburg that had been founded in 739 by St Boniface, along with the Aschaffenburg area along the Main which had been part of the old Archbishopric of Mainz. The Archbishopric ceased to exist along with the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. Regensburg itself was annexed by Bavaria — ratified by the Treaty of Paris in 1810 — while the Aschaffenburg region became the nucleus of the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, whose first ruler was the former Prince-Primate.

Today, the area belongs to the Archdiocese of Munich and the German Land of Bavaria.

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v • d • e Members of the Electoral College of the Holy Roman Empire following the Golden Bull of 1356 Spiritual electors Abp Mainz     Abp Trier     Abp Cologne Secular electors Kgdm Bohemia     Cty Palatine / Rhine     Dchy Saxony     Mgvt Brandenburg Electors added in the 17th century Dchy Bavaria (from 1623)     Dchy Hanover (from 1692) Electors added in the 19th century Abp Regensburg¹     / Dchy Salzburg²/Dchy Würzburg³     Dchy Württemberg¹     Mgvt Baden¹     Lgvt Hesse-Kassel¹ 1: 1803–06;     2: 1803–05;     3: 1805–06.