Lübeck Prince-Bishopric

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Was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

January 1181: Lübeck Prince-Bishopric gains Imperial immediacy.

Chronology

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1. Danish invasion of northern Germany (1201)

Was the invasion of northern Germany by king Canute VI of Denmark caused by disagreement with Adolf III, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, over the possession of the island of Rügen.

January 1201: On January 25, 1201, the army of Adolf III of Holstein and his ally Adolf I of Dassel was defeated by Danish forces near Washow. The County of Ratzeburg was occupied by Denmark.

July 1227: Battle of Bornhöved: Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein defeated King Valdemar II of Denmark. As a result, the Danish border with the Holy Roman Empire was moved north from the Elbe river to the Eider River, the southern border of the Duchy of Schleswig.

2. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

January 1804: The Lübeck Prince-Bishopric is secularised to Oldenburg.