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A Benedictine Abbey in northern Germany, on the Weser River, 27 miles (43 km.) east of Paderborn. Named for the monastery it's founders derived from (Corbie, in France), it became an Imperial Principality, and was noted for it's splendid library, it's core of innovative scribes and illuminators, and it's missionaries - the best-known of whom is probably St. Ansgar, Apostle to Scandinavia. It was briefly a Bishop's see before the Napoleonic interruptions.

  1. Adelhard............................................822-826

  2. Warin I of Saxony...................................826-856

  3. Adalgar.............................................856-877

  4. Thankmar................................................877

  5. Avo.................................................877-879

  6. Bowo I..............................................879-890

  7. Gottschalk..........................................890-900

  8. Bowo II.............................................900-916

  9. Volkmar I...........................................916-942

  10. Bowo III............................................942-948

  11. Gerbern.............................................949-965

  12. Ludolf..............................................965-983

  13. Dietmar I, Gr. v. Waldeck..........................983-1001

  14. Hosed.............................................1001-1010

  15. Walo..............................................1011-1015

  16. Drutmar...........................................1015-1046

  17. Rudhard...........................................1046-1050

  18. Arnold I von Falkenberg...........................1051-1055

  19. Saracho von Rossdorf..............................1056-1071

  20. Warin II..........................................1071-1079

  21. Friedrich, Gr. v. Hoya............................1080-1082

  22. Marquard..........................................1082-1106

  23. Erkenbert von Homburg.............................1106-1128

  24. Volkmar II von Bömeneburg.........................1129-1138

  25. Adalbert, Hz. v. Bavaria..........................1138-1144

  26. Heinrich I von Bömeneburg-Nordheim................1144-1146

  27. Heinrich II............................................1146

  28. Wibald de Pré.....................................1146-1174

  29. Konrad............................................1174-1189

  30. Witukind von Spiegel zum Desenberg................1189-1205

  31. Dietmar II von Stockhausen........................1206-1216

  32. Hippold von Lüdhorst..............................1216-1223

  33. Hermann I von Holte...............................1223-1254

  34. Thimo.............................................1254-1275

  35. Heinrich III von Homburg..........................1275-1306

  36. Ruprecht von Horhausen............................1306-1336

  37. Dietrich I von Dalwigk............................1336-1359

  38. Heinrich IV von Spiegel zum Desenberg.............1359-1360

  39. Reinhard I von Dalwigk............................1360-1369

  40. Ernst, Hz. v. Brunswick...........................1369-1371

  41. Bodo, Gr. v. Pyrmont..............................1371-1395

  42. Dietrich II von Runst.............................1395-1396

  43. Arnold II von Wolf................................1396-1398

  44. Wilbrand, Gr. v. Hallermund...............1398-1408 d. 1436

  45. Dietrich III von Runst............................1408-1417

  46. Moritz, Gr. v. Spiegelberg........................1417-1435

  47. Arnold III von der Malsburg.......................1435-1463

  48. Hermann II von Stockhausen........................1463-1479

  49. Hermann III von Bömelberg.........................1479-1504

  50. Franz Ketteler....................................1504-1547

  51. Kaspar I von Hörsel...............................1547-1555

  52. Reinhard II von Buchholz..........................1555-1585

  53. Dietrich IV von Beringhausen......................1585-1616

  54. Heinrich V von Aschenbrock........................1616-1624

  55. Johann Christoph von Brambach.....................1624-1638

  56. Arnold IV de Valdois..............................1638-1661

  57. Bernhard Christoph von Galen......................1661-1678

  58. Christoph von Bellinghausen.......................1678-1696

  59. Florenz von Welden................................1696-1714

  60. Maximilian von Horrich............................1714-1721

  61. Karl von Plittersdorf.............................1722-1737

  62. Kaspar II von Böselager-Hohneburg.................1737-1758

  63. Philipp von Spiegel zum Desenberg.................1758-1776

  64. Theodor von Brabeck (1st Bishop 1783).............1776-1794

  65. Ferdinand von Lüning......................1794-1802 d. 1825

  66. Bishopric secularized 1803: Principality to...

  67. ORANGE-NASSAU

  68. William Batavus (Prince of Orange 1751-95)........1803-1806

  69. William Frederick (K. of the Netherl. 1814-40)....1806-1807 d. 1843

  70. To Westphalia.....................................1807-1813

  71. To Prussia........................................1813-1822

  72. To Hesse-Rhinefels-Rothenburg.....................1822-1834

  73. Within Prussia, to Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst......1834-1918