The Diocese of Würzburg was established in 743. As the bishops provided important services to the Frankish (since 843 East Frankish)
crown, according to the feudal customs of the time they were rewarded with large fiefs, which became permanent holdings of the bishops.
So the bishops came to hold a double function : that of the spiritual head of the Diocesis of Würzburg and that of the temporal lord over their
territories, the Stift Würzburg (the two of which were not identical). As the power of the Emperor
declined in the 13th century, the Prince-Bishop in effect became the head of state of the Stift Würzburg. In 1512 Stift Würzburg became part of the Franconian Circle. In and after the Reformation the Stift Würzburg remained Catholic. In 1803 the Secularization terminated all ecclesiastical statelets in the Empire; the Stift Würzburg was annexed by Bavaria; in 1803 Bavaria ceded the Stift to the former Grand Duke of Tuscany who from 1805 to 1814 ruled as Duke of Würzburg. In 1814 the Stift Würzburg again was annexed by Bavaria, of which it politically remains part of ever since (much to the chagrin of many Franconians). |
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