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Prince-Bishopric of Trent | |||||||||
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| 1027–1803 | |||||||||
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 Bishopric of Trent within the Holy Roman Empire in 1648; Ecclesiastical lands shaded in pale blue | |||||||||
| Status | Prince-Bishopric | ||||||||
| Capital | Trento | ||||||||
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| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Government | Prince-Bishopric | ||||||||
| Prince-bishop | |||||||||
• 1027–1055 | Udalrico II | ||||||||
• 1800–1803 | Emanuele Maria Thun | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages Early modern period | ||||||||
| 1027 | |||||||||
• Bishops deposed by Frederick II | 1236 | ||||||||
• Declared a commune | 1425 | ||||||||
| 1545–1563 | |||||||||
• Napoleonic invasion | 1796 | ||||||||
• Secularised to Tyrol | 1803 | ||||||||
• Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire | 6 August 1806 | ||||||||
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The Prince-Bishopric of Trent (Latin: Episcopatus ac Principatus Tridentinus; German: Hochstift Trient, Fürstbistum Trient, Bistum Trient) was an ecclesiastical principality roughly corresponding to the present-day Northern Italian autonomous province of Trentino. It was created in 1027 and existed until 1803, when it was secularised and absorbed into the County of Tyrol held by the House of Habsburg. Trent was a Hochstift, an Imperial State under the authority of a prince-bishop at Trento.