The Archbishopric of Trier was one of the important ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. It encompassed territory along the Moselle River between Trier, near the French border, and Koblenz on the Rhine. The Archbishop of Trier was traditionally an Imperial Elector, and held the honorary office of Archchancellor of Gaul (here taken to mean the Kingdom of Arles, or Burgundy, along with Germany and Italy one of the three component kingdoms of the Empire).
Unlike the other Rhenish Archbishoprics, Mainz and Cologne, which were raised to archepiscopal status during the Carolingian period, Trier, as the important Roman city of Augusta Treverorum, had been home to an Archbishop since Roman times.
From 1795, the territories of the Archbishopric on the left bank of the Rhine (i.e. almost all of it) were under French occupation, and were annexed in 1801. In 1803, what was left of the Archbishopric was secularized and annexed by the Princes of Nassau.
Archbishops of Trier, 273-1803
Ravitus 273-282
Marcellus 282-287
Severinus 287-308
Florentius 308-309
Martin II 309-310
Maximinus I 310-322
Valentinus 322-327
Agrippinus 1327-1335
Maximinus II 1335-1352
Paulinus 353-358
Bonosus 359-365
Vetranius 365-384
Felix II 384-398
Mauritius II 398-407
Leontius 407-409
Auctor II 409-427
Severus 428-455
Cyrillus 455-457
Iamblichus 457-458
Evemerus 458-461
Marcus II 461-465
Volusianus 465-469
Miletius 469-476
Modestus 476-479
Maximianus 479-499
Fibicius 500-526
Aprunentius 526-527
Nicetius 527-566
Rusticus II 566-573
Magnerich 573-596
Gundwich 596-600
Sibald 600-626
Modoald 626-645
Numerianus 645-665
Hildulf 665-671
Basinus 671-697
Ludwin 697-718
Milo 718-758
Wermad 758-791
Richbod 791-804
Waso 804-809
Amalhar 809-814
Hetto 814-847
Dietgold 847-868
Barthold 869-883
Radbod 883-915
Rudgar 915-930
Rudbrecht 930-956
Heinrich I 956-964
Dietrich I 965-977
Egbert 977-993
Ludolf 994-1008
Megingod 1008-1015
Poppo 1016-1047
Eberhard 1047-1066
Kuno I 1066
Udo 1066-1078
Egilbert 1079-1101
Bruno 1101-1124
Gottfrid 1124-1127
Meginher 1127-1130
Adalberon von Munsterol 1131-1152
Hillin von Fallemanien 1152-1169
Arnold I 1169-1183
Fulmar 1183-1189
Johann I 1189-1212
Dietrich von Wied 1212-1242
Arnold II von Isenburg 1242-1259
Heinrich I von Finstingen 1260-1286
Bohemond I von Warnesberg 1286-1299
Diether von Nassau 1300-1307
Heinrich III von Virneburg 1300-1306 (in opposition)
TRIER (French treves), an ancient city of Germany, formerly the capital of an archbishopric and electorate of the empire, and now the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop and the chief town of a governrnental department in the Prussian province of the Rhine.
In the south-east corner of the city are the picturesque ruins of the Roman imperial palace, and near the bridge are the extensive substructures of the 4thcentury Roman baths, 660 ft. in length.
In the vaults are buried twenty-six archbishops and electors.
Trier is the seat of the Archbishopric of Trier, as well as being home to a university, a technical college, the administration of the Trier-Saarburg district and the seat of the ADD (Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion), which until 1999 was the borough authority of Trier.
The Archbishop of Trier was, as chancellor of Burgundy, one of the seven Electorates of the Holy Roman Empire, a right which originated in the 12th or 13th century, and which continued until the French Revolution.
Trier's status as an archbishopric city was confirmed in 1364 AD by Emperor Charles IV and by the Reichskammergericht; The city's dream of self-rule came definitively to an end in 1583.
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