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    Overijssel (redirect from Oversticht)
    Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperor Charles V in 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, after the Latin name of Oversticht that was known since...
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  • sympathies originally lay with the revolutionary Anabaptists who held Münster during the Münster Rebellion, but between Easter and Pentecost 1535, the Batenburgers...
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  • Jan van Virneburg (category Prince-Bishops of Münster)
    previously served as Prince and Bishop of Münster from 1363 to 1364. Jan van Virneburg was transferred from Münster to Utrecht by Pope Urban V after the transfer...
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  • part with Mainz Prince-Bishopric of Münster (Hochstift Münster): Oberstift, the southerly Westphalian part with Münster in Westphalia Niederstift, the northerly...
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    adjacent Münsterland. The large city of Münster was looked at for the latest fashion and customs. The language in Münster (Westphalian) was also seen as the...
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    States of Oversticht vehemently opposed the appointment of Zweder, and remained loyal to Rudolf, who proceeded to establish himself in Oversticht. On the...
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    explanation of the origins of the name, is that Twente was part of the Oversticht, a Medieval administrative construction which included the adjacent shires...
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  • Century: Territory nominally ceded to the Bishopric of Utrecht as the Oversticht 1336: To Guelders 1347: To the Bishopric of Utrecht 1528: To the Spanish...
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    the Prince-Bishop of Utrecht, who had obtained dominion over all of Oversticht from Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1010, repeatedly attempted to increase...
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