Prince-provost
Prince-provost (German: Fürstpropst) is a rare title for a monastic superior with the ecclesiastical style of provost who is also a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst), holding a direct vote in the Imperial Diet assembly coequal to an actual Prince-abbot, as in each case treated below.
Berchtesgaden Provostry
The monastery of
Prince-provosts of Berchtesgaden
- 1559–1567 Wolfgang Griesstätter zu Haslach; 1541–1559 Provost and Imperial prelate(German: Reichsprälat) in Berchtesgaden
- 1567–1594 Jakob Pütrich
- 1594–1650 from 1618.
- 1650–1688 Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern, also Elector of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Liège as well as Prince-Bishop of Münster from 1683
- 1688–1723 Regensburgfrom 1685 to 1694, Elector of Cologne from 1688, Prince-Bishop of Liège (from 1694) and Hildesheim (from 1702)
- 1723–1732 Julius Heinrich von Rehlingen-Radau
- 1732–1752 Cajetan Anton von Notthaft
- 1752–1768 Michael Balthasar von Christallnigg
- 1768–1780 Franz Anton Josef von Hausen-Gleichenstorff
- 1780–1803 Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös (d. 1803), also Prince-Bishop of Freising and Regensburg from 1789
Ellwangen Abbey
The abbots of the Benedictine Abbey known as Stift Ellwangen founded in 764 had become Princes of the Empire (style Reichsabt) in 1215 with a direct vote in the Imperial Diet. Since its conversion into a college of secular canons in 1460, the superiors retained that status, with their full style changed to Fürstliche Pröpste zu Ellwangen ("Princely Provosts of Ellwangen") in the Swabian Circle. During the German Mediatisation on 27 April 1803 it was incorporated into the Electorate of Württemberg.
Prince-Provosts of Ellwangen
- 1460–1461 Johann von Hürnheim, previously Abbot nullius of Ellwangen 1452–1460
- 1461–1502 Albrecht von Rechberg
- 1502–1503 Bernhard von Westerstetten
- 1503–1521 Albrecht Thumb von Neuburg
- 1521–1552 Worms from 1523 and of Utrechtfrom 1524 to 1529, Prince-Bishop of Freising from 1541
- 1552–1573 Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, also Prince-Bishop of Augsburg since 1543
- 1573–1584 Christoph von Freyberg-Eisenberg
- 1584–1603 Wolfgang von Hausen, also Bishop of Regensburg 1602–1613
- 1603–1613 Johann Christoph von Westerstetten, also Bishop of Eichstädtt 1612–1637
- 1613–1620 Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Eisenberg
- 1621–1654 Johann Jakob Blarer von Wartensee
- 1654–1660 Johann Rudolf von Rechenberg
- 1660–1674 Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Allmendingen
- 1674–1687 Johann Christoph Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
- 1687–1689 Heinrich Christoph von Wolframsdorf
- 1689–1694 Grand Master of the Teutonic Knightssince 1684 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1691
- 1694–1732 Mainzfrom 1729
- 1732–1756 Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim, Elector of Trier since 1729, also Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1732
- 1756–1787 Anton Ignaz Joseph Graf von Fugger-Glött, also Prince-Bishop of Regensburgfrom 1769
- 1787–1803 Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony(d. 1812), Prince-Bishop of Freising 1763–1768 and of Regensburg 1763–1769, Elector of Trier and Prince-Bishop of Augsburg since 1768
Weissenburg Abbey
The Benedictine abbey established at
See also
- Prince-abbot
- Princes of the Holy Roman Empire
- Imperial State