Section 1268

subscribed to the Interim of 1548. During his reign Albreclit Alcibiades of Brandenburg invaded the diocese, and took Mayeuce; he made the citizens swear alle- giance to tlie king of France, demanded a contribution of 600,000 tlorius from the archbishop and chapter, and, as they were unable to pay that amomit by the time stipulated, he burnt down the archiepiscopal palace and several churches; the archbishop himself fled to Elt- feld, where he died in 1555. His successor, Daniel of Homburg, endeavored to restore the archbishopric to its former splendor ; he introduced the Jesuits into ]\Iay- cnce and in Eichsfelde, and surrendered education into their hands ; he took part also in the attempts of recon- ciliation between the Protestants and Romanists, added to his diocese the county of Lahr (Kieneck), the county of Kiinigstein, and the villages of Rennshausen and Zornhcim. He died March 22, 1582. He was succeed- ed by Wolfgang of Dalberg (1582 to April 5, 1601). John Adam, of Bicken (1601 to Jan. 10, 1604), and John Sui- card, of Kronenberg, strictly enforced all the old ecclesi- astical rules, and persecuted the Protestants, Under Suicard the diocese began to feel the effects of the Thir- ty Years' War, which was then raging; it suffered espe- cially from the inroads of Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick, against whom he called for the assistance of the Spaniards. He died July 6, 1629. Anselm Casi- mir, of Wambold, was obliged to flee from Mayence when that city was taken by Gustavus Adolphus, Dec. 23, 1631 ; lie retired to Cologne, and the diocese was, until the Treaty of Prague, in 1635, occupied by Swedish and French troops, who greatly impoverished the country — not more, liowever, than the imperial forces. In 1635 the archbishop returned to Mayence ; but the diocese be- coming again the theatre of war in 1643, he fled again before the French armies, and in 1647 made a treaty with Turenne. Mayence remained in the possession of the French, and the archbishop went to reside at Frank- fort, where he died, Oct. 9, 1647. His successor, John Philip, of Schiinborn, prince bishop of Wiirzburg, re- signed soon after his election, for the Swedes, after the expiration of the peace of Westphalia, exerted them- selves for the secularization of the diocese, and the arch- bishopric was only maintained through the intervention of Saxony ; it lost, however, by exemption, the districts of Verdcn and Halberstadt. On the occasion of the coronation of Ferdinand IV at Regensburg, John Philip came in conflict with the archbishop of Cologne over their respective prerogatives. He was also in difficulty with the inhabitants of Mayence, and finally took the city by force in 1664. Philip also quarrelled with Sax- ony about the town of Erfurt, which was finally added to his diocese in 1665. He then devoted all his atten- tion to internal improvements; he gave regulations to the court of Mayence in 1659; in 1661 he established a theological seminary ; and in 1663 was also made bishop of Worms. He died Feb. 12, 1673. His successor was Lothar Frederick, of Metternich-Burchied, coadjutor of John Philip since 1670 ; in 1674 he got into war with the elector of the Palatinate, about the district of Bock- elnheim, but died June 3, 1675. Domian Hartard, of Leyen, died Dec. G, 1678. Charles Henry, duke of Met- ternich-Winneburg, was elected in 1679, and died on Sept. 27 of the same year, Anselm Franz, of Ingelheim, surrendered IMayence to the French in 1688, and took up his residence at Erfurt ; but the marshal of Uxelles having given up Mayence to the duke of Lorraine, Sept. 8, 1689, the archbishop returned to it. In 1691 he joined a league against France. By a treaty concluded Aug. 24, 1692 with Brunswick, he gave up the district of Eichsfeld, with the exception of Duderstadt, Giebold- shausen, and Landau. He died in 1695, Lothar Franz, of Schonborn, nephew of John Philip, took the part of Austria against Spain in the ^\'ar ot^ Succession. ,In 1704 the district of Kronenberg was joined to the diocese by succession. In 1714 the strife "between the archbishop and the Palatinate was brought to a close by the former giving up his claim to Bockelnheim, and receiving in