The Bishropic of Reval was a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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Reval Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''m ...

, Duchy of Estonia created by

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in 1240. Contradictory to

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, Valdemar II reserved the right to appoint the

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s of Reval to himself and his successor kings of Denmark. The decision to simply nominate the

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of Reval was unique in the whole Catholic Church at the time and was disputed by bishops and the Pope. During the era, the election of bishops was never established in Reval and the royal rights to the bishopric and to nominate the bishops was even included in the treaty when the territories of the Duchy of Estonia were sold to

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in 1346. Until 1374 the see was suffragan to the

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after which it was transferred to the

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. The Bishopric of Reval came to an end during the

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in the Livonian Confederation. The last titular bishop of the see was

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younger brother of Frederick II of Denmark who had bought

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on the eve of the

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. Magnus landed on Ösel (

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) in 1560 and soon after the bishop of Reval also resigned his bishopric to Magnus' hands. Magnus' attempt to gain control of the

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in Reval was prevented by

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, the master of Livonian Order. In 1561

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took control over Reval and after the Livonian war it became the capital city of Swedish Estonia.

Bishops

Kingdom of Denmark

* Wesselin (1219–1227) * Thorkill (1238/40-1260) * Thrugot (1260/63-1279) * Johannes (1280–1294) * Heinrich, OFM (1298–1318) * Olav von Roskilde, OFM (1323–1350)

Ordensstaat

* Ludwig von Münster alias Ludovicus de Monasterio (1352–1389) * Johannes Rekeling (1390–1403) * Dietrich Theodor Tolke (1403–1405) * Johannes von Aken-Achmann (Ochmann) (1405–1418) *

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(1418–1419) * Heinrich Uexküll (1419–1456) * Everhard Kalle (Call) (1457–1475) * Iwan Stoltevoet (1475–1477) * Simon von der Borch (1477–1492) * Nikolaus Roddendorp (1493–1509) * Gottschalk Hagen (1509–1513) * Christian Czernekow (1513–1514) * Johannes Blankenfeld (1514–1524) (also the '' Bischof von Dorpat'' and '' Erzbischof von Riga'') * Georg von Tiesenhausen (1525–1530) * Johannes Roterd (1531–1536) * Arnold Annebat (1536–1551) * Friedrich von Ampten (1551–1557) * Moritz (Mauritius) von Wrangel (1558–1560)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reval, Bishopric Of History of the Baltic states 1240 establishments in Europe

History of Tallinn Medieval Estonia

Bishops

Kingdom of Denmark

Ordensstaat

See also

References