Alternative succession

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The alternative succession in the Osnabrück Monastery was a result of the negotiations on the political and denominational reorganization at the end of the Thirty Years' War .

According to the provisions of Art. XIII, 1-8 of the Peace Treaty of Osnabrück , it provided that Catholic and Protestant bishops had to alternate in the succession to Osnabrück. While the cathedral chapter was completely free to choose the respective Catholic candidates, the Protestant bishops always had to come from the ducal houses of Braunschweig and Lüneburg as long as this gender existed. This regulation is irrelevant today.

literature

  • Steinert, MA: The alternative succession in the Osnabrück Monastery. Change of bishops and the right of rule of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Osnabrück 1648 - 1802 , Osnabrück 2003 (= Osnabrück historical sources and research, volume 47).