- Principality of Regensburg
Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Fürstentum Regensburg"
conventional_long_name = Principality of Regensburg
common_name = Regensburg
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Germany
era = Napoleonic Wars
status = Vassal
empire = Holy Roman Empire
government_type = Principality
year_start = 1803
year_end = 1810
event_start = Created from all five spaces|4"Reichsfrei " territories
spaces|4inRegensburg
date_start =
event_end = Ceded to Bavaria
date_end =
p1 = Regensburg
image_p1 =
p2 = Bishopric of Regensburg
image_p2 =
p3 = St. Emmeram's Abbey
image_p3 =
p4 = Niedermünster, Regensburg
image_p4 =
p5 = Obermünster, Regensburg
image_p5 =
s1 = Kingdom of Bavaria
flag_s1 = Flag of Bavaria (striped).svg
image_map_caption =
capital = Regensburg
title_leader = Prince-Primate
leader1 = Karl Theodor von Dalberg
footnotes =The Principality of Regensburg ( _de. Fürstentum Regensburg) was a
principality within theHoly Roman Empire and theConfederation of the Rhine which existed between 1803 and 1810. Its capital was the city ofRegensburg , now inBavaria ,Germany .The principality was created for
Karl Theodor von Dalberg , thePrince-Primate of the Empire and the formerArchbishop of Mainz , due to the annexation ofMainz itself by the French under theTreaty of Lunéville . Most of the new principality consisted of the territory of the old Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg, which had been founded in 739 bySt Boniface . The principality also included the Lordships ofDonaustauf , Wörth, and Hohenburg, the imperial city of Regensburg,St. Emmeram's Abbey , and the abbeysObermünster and Niedermünster. Dalberg also retained thePrincipality of Aschaffenburg along theMain River .Dalberg received the electoral dignity previously accorded to the Electorate of Mainz; his new principality has thus been known in German as "Kurfürstentum Regensburg" ("Electorate of Regensburg"). Because the archiepiscopal status of Mainz had also been transferred to the Regensburg diocese, the principality has also been known in English as the Archbishopric of Regensburg.
Because of Bavarian claims on Regensburg, Dalberg was not installed as archbishop until
1 February 1805 . The principality lost its status as an electorate in 1806 with the dissolution of theHoly Roman Empire and became part of theConfederation of the Rhine later that year. TheNapoleonic code was introduced in 1809.During the
War of the Fifth Coalition , Austrian troops occupied Regensburg on20 April 1809 ; it was shelled and stormed by French troops three days later. In the Treaty of Paris, Dalberg conceded Regensburg to theKingdom of Bavaria , which formally incorporated the city on22 May 1810 . In return for conceding Regensburg, Dalberg was grantedHanau andFulda , which he combined with the Principality of Aschaffenburg to create theGrand Duchy of Frankfurt . Although he had lost the Principality of Regensburg, Dalberg retained the title of Archbishop of Regensburg until his death in 1817, after which time the archbishopric was downgraded to a suffragan diocese of Munich and Freising.References
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