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316: 384: 367:, were drawn up and signed by the plenipotentiaries of the four archbishops on 25 August 1786. The purpose of the punctation was to lower the papal dignity to a merely honorary primacy and to make the pope a primus inter pares, with practically no authority over the territories of the archbishops. In order to increase his political influence he joined (25 October 1785) the Confederation of Princes which was established by King Frederick the Great. In 1787, he apparently receded from the schismatic position of the 40: 484: 413:
in 1797 Erthal was deprived of his possessions west of the Rhine and by the Concordat of 1801 he lost also spiritual jurisdiction over that part of his diocese. The negotiations concerning the reimbursement of Erthal for the loss of his territory west of the Rhine were not yet completed when he died
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As a spiritual ruler, Erthal was guided by the principles of Febronianism. In union with the Archbishops Max Franz of Cologne, Clemens Wenzeslaus of Trier, and Hieronymus Joseph of Salzburg he convoked the
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Erthal did not pursue his opposition to the enlightenment for very long, reinstating the modern government of his predecessor in 1777. After 1781, Erthal's politics were dominated by the Enlightenment. The
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were reformed according to new ideas, and a hymnal in German language was published. He became one of the most notable supporters of free-thought in theology and of
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noble family, Franz Ludwig was the son of Baron Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal (1689-1748), Lord Marshal and Vice-President of the Chamber of
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was split in two fractions, one representing the openness to reform of the Enlightenment, the larger one advocating immediate
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himself, opposing the dynastical tendencies of the Emperor. In 1785, he even joined the Prussian-led mostly Protestant
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Neoclassical tomb of Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal at Aschaffenburg, showing him allegorically as a dying hero of
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had expected Erthal's election to improve relationships with the Archbishopric. However, Erthal, in his position as
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and applied to Rome for a renewal of his quinquennial faculties and for the approbation of his new coadjutor,
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occupied Mainz on 21 October 1792; Mainz capitulated without a fight. Erthal fled to
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from 18 July 1774 to 4 July 1802, shortly before the end of the archbishopric in the
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His opposition was made futile by the revolutionary wars: The troops of
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19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire
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18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire
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wanted to have an important role in the politics of the
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on 3 January 1719, into the House of Erthal, an ancient
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at which twenty-three antipapal articles, known as the
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on 25 July 1802, and was succeeded as archbishop by
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(1913). 336:in the government of the Church. 311:Relationship to the Enlightenment 258:Erthal's predecessor, archbishop 482: 234:(d. 1738). 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Frederick Charles Joseph, archbishop of Mainz

Georg Anton Abraham Urlaub
Elector of Mainz
Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim
Karl Theodor von Dalberg
Lohr am Main
Aschaffenburg
St. Peter und Alexander
Archbishop of Mainz
Catholic Church
Mainz
Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim
Karl Theodor von Dalberg
prince-elector
archbishop of Mainz
Reichsdeputationshauptschluss
Lohr am Main
Franconian
Electorate of Mainz
Bettendorf
Franz Ludwig von Erthal
Prince-Bishop
Würzburg
Bamberg
Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim
Enlightenment
Domkapitel
restoration
Bishop of Worms

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