The Protestant Catholic Prince Bishops of Osnabrück

Looking at the history of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück

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0:00 Intro
0:29 Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück
0:51 England

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Sources:

The Catholic Revival in Osnabrück and Minden, 1591-1651 – William C. Schrader (1992)

The Catholic Encyclopedia: Diocese of Osnabrück (1913)

Bistum Osnabrück (Accessed 2024)

The 30 Years War was one of the several Wars of religion that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation with each competing Protestant and Catholic Dynasty fighting against each other to win Thrones and land and while each ruler was motivated by the desire to bring the people closer to God the

Armies made sure to send millions of civilians to him now the Peace of West phalia ended the war in 1648 was based on a series of treaties that were signed in the cities of monster and osbrook in the Holy Roman Empire however one of the stipulations for this peace deal also

Left the prince Bishop Rick of Austin with an odd set of rules for succession with the prince Bishop having to alternate between a Protestant and a Catholic ruler with a Protestant ruler being a hereditary Noble while the Catholic ruler would be a bishop in the Catholic Church things got even more

Interesting when the line of the Protestant Prince Bishops went to Ernest Augustus of the House of Hanover as he was also the husband of Sophia The palatinate this was important because over in England they were also dealing with religious issues tired of having to deal with the conflicts that resulted

From having Catholics in the line of succession to the throne of a largely Protestant country the English Parliament decided to permanently exclude them in 1701 removing at least 57 Catholic Royals who were in line to the English Throne leaving Sophia the platinate a very distant relative of

Queen Anne of Great Britain as the closest Protestant relative on the royal family tree but after Sophia passed away her son was made the new Heir and he would inherit the throne as George the first of Great Britain and Ireland while George’s younger brother Earnest Augustus end up inheriting their

Father’s title becoming the Protestant Prince Bishop of osbrook now according to the rules Ernest was succeeded by a Catholic bishop however since Ernest never got married nor had any legitimate kids the Protestant title of Prince Bishop went to the descendants of George the with the next Protestant to hold the

Title being Prince Frederick a younger son of King George III with Frederick being a great great grand nephew of Ernest but after years of legal and land reforms in the last years of the Holy Roman Empire during the early 1800s the prince Bishop Rick was absorbed into the

Electorate and later Kingdom of Hanover which was ruled by Frederick’s father King George III ending the prince Bishop Rick and a cycle of a Protestant Catholic succession please let me know what you think and if there’s anything I missed or other factors you think were important please feel free to include

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