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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Baltic nobility, Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, Electresses, Lists of nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, Noble titles of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince-elector, Clemens August of Bavaria, Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, List of monarchs of Luxembourg, Countess of Flanders, Sven-Bertil Taube, List of rulers of Brandenburg, Count of Holland, List of Pomeranian duchies and dukes, Princess Dorothea of Courland, Count of Flanders, Ernest of Bavaria, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, Count palatine, Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan, Florian Geyer, Dorothea von Medem, Counts and Dukes of Bar, Von Hahn, Eric II, Duke of Pomerania, Peter von Biron, Maria Kalergis, Margarete von Wrangell, Duke of Limburg, Counts of Namur, Salentin IX of Isenburg-Grenzau, George Hoyningen-Huene, Lieven, Anrep family, Igelstrom, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, Ignatius White, Elisa von der Recke, Wrangel family, Gebhard I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Pahlen, Iosif Igelstrom, Lords of Bouillon, Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg, Schulman family, Campenhausen, Clodt von Jurgensburg, Elisabeth of Culemborg, Taube family, Von Plotzke family, Stael von Holstein, Ungern-Sternberg, Elisabeth Jarnefelt, Nesselrode, Harald Julius von Bosse, Freytag-Loringhoven, Stenbock, Uta of Schauenburg, Uexkull, Burgmann. Excerpt: Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (10 November 1547 - 21 May 1601) was the prince-elector and archbishop of Cologne. After pursuing an ecclesiastical career, he won a close election in the Cathedral chapter of Cologne over Ernst of Bavaria. After his election, he fell in love with and later married Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben, a Protestant Canoness at the Abbey of Gerresheim. His conversion to Calvinism and announcement of religious parity in the Electorate triggered a war. On 19 December 158...