Ernest of Bavaria
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Refimprove Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox royalty Wittelsbach-Hapsburg aristocrat Ernest of Bavaria (Template:Langx) (17 December 1554 – 17 February 1612) was Prince-Elector-Archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne and, as such, Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Westphalia, from 1583 to 1612 as successor of the expelled Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg.
He was also simultaneously Prince-Bishop of Münster, Hildesheim, Freising, and Liège, Count of Loon, and Prince-Abbot of Savelot. In Freising ,he had already become bishop by the age of 12.
Life
Ernest was born in Munich, the son of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, and Anna of Austria. Duke Albert had destined his third son, Ernest, for the clerical vocation. He was educated and trained by the Jesuits at Ingolstadt.[1]Template:Rp
Ancestry
References
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External links
- Ernest of Bavaria – the Prince-Bishop of Liege in modern Europe, 400th anniversary
- Tripota – Trier portrait database Template:Webarchive
- Ernest of Bavaria in the Portal of Rhenish History
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- Epitaph of Ernest of Bavaria Template:Webarchive
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- 1554 births
- 1612 deaths
- Nobility from Munich
- House of Wittelsbach
- Archbishop-electors of Cologne
- Dukes of Westphalia
- 16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire
- 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire
- Burials at Cologne Cathedral
- Prince-bishops of Liège
- Prince-bishops of Münster
- Roman Catholic prince-bishops of Freising
- Prince-bishops of Hildesheim
- German people of the Eighty Years' War
- Abbots of Stavelot
- Sons of dukes
- 16th-century Christian abbots
- 16th-century abbots from the Holy Roman Empire