State · 780 – 1803
Electorate of Mainz
A state of 780 – 1803 — 1,023 years in Europe. It followed Free City of Mainz. The atlas records 53 things within it — people 53. Its line of rulers holds 63 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 1,023 years
- 780 – 1803
- Rulers
- 63
- the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mainz
- Within it
- 53
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Free City of Mainz · follows
Rulers
The line of Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mainz.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lullus | 755 – 786 | 31 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Richulf | 787 – 813 | 26 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Astolfus of Mainz | 813 – 825 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Otgar of Mainz | 826 – 847 | 21 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Rabanus Maurus | 847 – 856 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Charles, Archbishop of Mainz | 856 – 863 | 7 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Liutbert | 863 – 889 | 26 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Sunderolt | 889 – 891 | 2 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Hatto I | 891 – 913 | 22 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Heriger | 913 – 927 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Hildebert | 928 – 937 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Frederick | 937 – 954 | 17 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| William | 954 – 968 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Willigis | 975 – 1011 | 36 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Erkanbald | 1011 – 1021 | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Aribo | 1021 – 1031 | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Bardo | 1031 – 1051 | 20 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Luitpold I, Archbishop of Mainz | 1051 – 1059 | 8 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Siegfried I | 1059 – 1084 | 25 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Wezilo | 1084 – 1088 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Ruthard of Mainz | 1088 – 1109 | 21 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Adalbert I of Mainz | 1111 – 1137 | 26 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Arnold of Selenhofen | 1153 – 1160 | 7 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Rudolf of Zähringen | 1160 – 1160 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Conrad of Wittelsbach | 1161 – 1165 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Christian I | 1167 – 1183 | 16 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Conrad of Wittelsbach | 1183 – 1200 | 17 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Siegfried II | 1200 – 1230 | 30 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Siegfried III | 1230 – 1249 | 19 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Heinrich von Isny | 1286 – 1288 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Peter of Aspelt | 1306 – 1320 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Baldwin of Luxembourg | 1328 – 1337 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Heinrich von Virneburg | 1328 – 1346 | 18 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Gerlach of Nassau | 1346 – 1371 | 25 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| John of Luxembourg-Ligny | 1371 – 1373 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Louis of Meissen | 1374 – 1381 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Adolf I | 1381 – 1390 | 9 years | ending not on record | |
| John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein | 1397 – 1419 | 22 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Conrad III of Dhaun | 1419 – 1434 | 15 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Dietrich Schenk von Erbach | 1434 – 1459 | 25 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Diether von Isenburg | 1459 – 1461 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Adolf II | 1461 – 1475 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Diether von Isenburg | 1475 – 1482 | 7 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Berthold von Henneberg | 1484 – 1504 | 20 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Jakob von Liebenstein | 1504 – 1508 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Uriel von Gemmingen | 1508 – 1514 | 6 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Albert of Brandenburg | 1514 – 1545 | 31 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Sebastian von Heusenstamm | 1546 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Daniel Brendel von Homburg | 1555 – 1582 | 27 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Wolfgang von Dalberg | 1582 – 1601 | 19 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Johann Adam von Bicken | 1601 – 1604 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg | 1604 – 1626 | 22 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau | 1626 – 1629 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt | 1629 – 1647 | 18 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Johann Philipp von Schönborn | 1647 – 1673 | 26 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid | 1673 – 1675 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck | 1675 – 1678 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg | 1679 – 1679 | under a year | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Anselm Franz von Ingelheim | 1679 – 1695 | 16 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Lothar Franz von Schönborn | 1695 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Francis Louis of Palatinate-Neuburg | 1729 – 1732 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich | 1732 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein | 1743 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim | 1763 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal | 1775 – 1802 | 27 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone |
63 rulers, 63 with terms dated as terms, covering 755 – 1802. Median reign 14 years. 3 of 64 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedBanner of the Electorate of Mainz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · User:Sodacan , wheel from File:Coat of Arms of Ernest August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg… 
coat of arms, undatedWappen Erzbistum Mainz · Attribution · David Liuzzo
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
700 – 7992 rows
- Rabanus Maurus · ruler · 780 – 856
- Otgar of Mainz · ruler · 750 – 847
800 – 8995 rows
900 – 9996 rows
1000 – 10992 rows
- Wezilo · ruler · 1050 – 1088
- Arnold of Selenhofen · religious leader · 1095 – 1160
1100 – 11997 rows
- Conrad of Wittelsbach · ruler · 1125 – 1200
- Rudolf of Zähringen · ruler · 1130 – 1191
- Adalbert I of Mainz · ruler · 1100 – 1137
- Christian I · ruler · 1130 – 1183
- Siegfried III · ruler · 1195 – 1249
- Siegfried II · ruler · 1165 – 1230
- Ruthard of Mainz · ruler · 1100 – 1109
1200 – 12993 rows
- Baldwin of Luxembourg · ruler · 1285 – 1354
- Peter of Aspelt · religious leader · 1245 – 1320
- Heinrich von Virneburg · ruler · 1280 – 1353
1300 – 13995 rows
- Louis of Meissen · ruler · 1341 – 1382
- Dietrich Schenk von Erbach · ruler · 1390 – 1459
- John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein · ruler · 1360 – 1419
- Conrad III of Dhaun · ruler · 1380 – 1434
- Gerlach of Nassau · ruler · 1322 – 1371
1400 – 14996 rows
- Albert of Brandenburg · ruler · 1490 – 1545
- Adolf II · ruler · 1423 – 1475
- Diether von Isenburg · ruler · 1412 – 1482
- Berthold von Henneberg · ruler · 1441 – 1504
- Uriel von Gemmingen · ruler · 1468 – 1514
- Jakob von Liebenstein · ruler · 1462 – 1508
1500 – 15997 rows
- Daniel Brendel von Homburg · ruler · 1522 – 1582
- Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg · ruler · 1553 – 1626
- Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau · ruler · 1573 – 1629
- Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt · ruler · 1582 – 1647
- Sebastian von Heusenstamm · ruler · 1508 – 1555
- Wolfgang von Dalberg · ruler · 1537 – 1601
- Johann Adam von Bicken · ruler · 1564 – 1604
1600 – 16998 rows
- Francis Louis of Palatinate-Neuburg · ruler · 1664 – 1732
- Johann Philipp von Schönborn · ruler · 1605 – 1673
- Lothar Franz von Schönborn · religious leader · 1655 – 1729
- Anselm Franz von Ingelheim · ruler · 1634 – 1695
- Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein · ruler · 1689 – 1763
- Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg · ruler · 1622 – 1679
- Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck · ruler · 1624 – 1678
- Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich · ruler · 1665 – 1743
1700 – 17992 rows
- Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal · ruler · 1719 – 1802
- Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim · ruler · 1707 – 1774
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood1,023 years
stood longer than 97% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median14 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 46% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record63
has more rulers on record than 98% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 678 – 1905, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1292, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q284667 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.