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See also:BERTOLD (1442–1504) , elector and See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz, son of See also:George, See also:count of Henneberg, entered the ecclesiastical profession, and after passing through its See also:lower stages, was made archbishop of Mainz in 1484. He appears to have been a See also:firm supporter of See also:law and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, an enemy of clerical abuses and a careful See also:administrator of his See also:diocese. Immediately after his See also:election as archbishop he began to take a leading See also:part in the business of the See also:Empire, and in 1486 was very active in securing the election of See also:Maximilian as See also:Roman See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. His See also:chief See also:work, however, was done as an See also:advocate of administrative reform in See also:Germany.
During the reign of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick III. he had brought this question before the See also:diet, and after Frederick's See also:death, when he had become imperial See also:chancellor, he was the See also:leader of the party which pressed the See also:necessity for reform upon Maximilian at the diet of See also:Worms in 1495• His proposals came to nothing, but he continued the struggle at a See also:series of diets, and urged the Germans to emulate the courage and See also:union of the Swiss cantons. He gained a temporary victory when the diet of See also:Augsburg in 1500 established a See also:council of regency (Reichsregiment), and in 1502 persuaded the See also:electors to See also:form a union to uphold the reforms of 1495 and 1500. The elector died on the 21st of See also:December 1504. Bertold was a See also:man of See also:great ability and resourcefulness, and as a statesman who strove for an ordered and See also:united Germany was far in advance of his See also:age.
See J. See also:Weiss, Berthold von Henneberg, Erzbischof von Mainz (See also:Freiburg, 1889).
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