Archbishopric of Regensburg
| Principality of Regensburg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fürstentum Regensburg (German) | ||||||||||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Capital | Regensburg | |||||||||||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||||||||||
| Prince-Archbishop | Karl Theodor von Dalberg | |||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||||||||||
| • | Created from all five Reichsfrei territories in Regensburg | 27 April 1803 | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Ceded to Bavaria | 6 January 1810 | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Formally incorporated into Bavaria | 22 May 1810 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Principality of Regensburg (German: Fürstentum Regensburg) was a principality within the Holy Roman Empire and the Confederation of the Rhine which existed between 1803 and 1810. Its capital was the city of Regensburg, now in Bavaria, Germany.
The principality was created for Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the Elector-Archchancellor of the Empire and the former Archbishop of Mainz, due to the annexation of Mainz itself by the French under the Treaty of Lunéville. Most of the new principality consisted of the territory of the old Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg, which had been founded in 739 by Saint Boniface. The principality also included the Lordships of Donaustauf, Wörth, and Hohenburg, the imperial city of Regensburg, St. Emmeram's Abbey, and the abbeys Obermünster and Niedermünster. Dalberg also retained the Principality of Aschaffenburg along the Main river.
Dalberg received the electoral dignity previously accorded to the Electorate of Mainz; his new principality has thus been known in German as Kurfürstentum Regensburg ("Electorate of Regensburg"). Because the archiepiscopal status of Mainz had also been transferred to the Regensburg diocese, the principality has also been known in English as the Archbishopric of Regensburg.
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