State · 888 – 1803

Prince-Bishopric of Speyer

A state of 888 – 1803 — 915 years in Europe. The atlas records 13 things within it — people 13. Its line of rulers holds 52 people.

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Stood: 915 years; 888 – 1803
Rulers: 52; the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer
Within it: 13; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Walter of Speyer	1004 – 1031	27 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Reginbald II	1033 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Sigibodo I.	1039 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Arnold I. von Falkenberg	1051 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Einhard II. von Katzenellenbogen	1060 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Heinrich von Scharfenberg	1067 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Rüdiger Huzmann	1075 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Johann I of Kraichgau	1090 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Gebhard II. von Urach	1105 – 1107	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Brunon de Sarrebruck	1107 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Arnold II von Leiningen	1124 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Siegfried II. von Wolfsölden	1127 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Günther von Henneberg	1146 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Ulrich von Dürrmenz	1161 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Rabodo von Lobdaburg	1167 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Ulrich II. von Rechberg	1178 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Otto II von Henneberg	1188 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Konrad III of Scharfenberg	1200 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Beringer von Entringen	1224 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Conrad IV of Tann	1233 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Konrad von Eberstein	1237 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Heinrich von Leiningen	1245 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Friedrich von Bolanden	1272 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Sigibodo II. von Lichtenberg	1303 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Emich von Leiningen	1314 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Berthold von Buchegg	1328 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Walram von Veldenz	1329 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Gerhard von Ehrenberg	1336 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Lamprecht von Brunn	1364 – 1371	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Adolf I	1371 – 1389	18 years	ending not on record
Nikolaus von Wiesbaden	1381 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Raban von Helmstatt	1396 – 1438	42 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Adolf von Eppstein	1430 – 1433	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Reinhard von Helmstatt	1438 – 1456	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Siegfried III. von Venningen	1455 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Johannes II. Nix von Hoheneck	1459 – 1463	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Matthias von Rammung	1464 – 1478	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ludwig von Helmstatt	1478 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Philip I of Rosenberg	1504 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
George of the Palatinate	1513 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Philip of Flersheim	1529 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Rudolf von und zu Frankenstein	1552 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Marquard von Hattstein	1560 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Eberhard von Dienheim	1581 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Philipp Christoph von Sötern	1610 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid	1652 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Johann Hugo von Orsbeck	1675 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Heinrich Hartard von Rollingen	1711 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn	1719 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Franz Christoph von Hutten zum Stolzenberg	1743 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
August Philip of Limburg Stirum	1770 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Wilderich of Walderdorf	1797 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record

52 rulers, 52 with terms dated as terms, covering 1004 – 1797. Median reign 14 years. 3 of 51 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”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedWappen Bistum Speyer · 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.

900 – 9991 row

Walter of Speyer · ruler · 965 – 1031

1000 – 10992 rows

Reginbald II · religious leader · 1000 – 1039
Rüdiger Huzmann · religious leader · 1001 – 1090

1100 – 11991 row

Johann I of Kraichgau · religious leader · 1100 – 1104

1300 – 13992 rows

Adolf I · ruler · 1301 – 1390
Raban von Helmstatt · ruler · 1362 – 1439

1400 – 14991 row

George of the Palatinate · religious leader · 1486 – 1529

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 stood915 years
stood longer than 96% 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 record52
has more rulers on record than 98% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

coincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 796 – 1895, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1346, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

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