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430 GERMANY. [Eichftett.
Ingoljladt, The ancient rural-decanates of Auorf, Gunzcnhaufen, JViifj'er-
Truhendin^en and Weijfenburgy are at prelent no longer in being, having come
over if not with all, yet at leall with molt ot the paiiiiies and fihals belonging
to the Proteltant religion.
§. 5. The place in the Ncrdgau, on which the town of FÄchßett now
flands belonged anciently to the Counts or H rfchberg^_owc of whom, named
yuifger, or Snigger, ceded it to St. Boniface, and the latter to his fifter's
ion Wilihald (for fuch he was held.) At that time this place lay wafte, nothing
more than a chapel {landing on it. But Wilihald founded a cloyfter
here, and near it houfes were gradually built, out of which arcic a town
at length, which from the valt oaks near it obtained the name of Eichßett.
Bonijace conkc:at.cd his relation firfl prieft, and in the year 741, or as is more
generally fuppofed in 745, bifliop of Eicl.TJhtt. This firft bifliop of Eichlictt,
pope BetiediB XIJI. canonized. Towards the eredting of this biüiopric
Count Snigger gave a part of his eftate. But Gebhard, the laft Count of
Hirfchberg, in the year 1291 bequeathed his whole county to it, though a
fief of Bavaria, and that notvvithftanding the Dukes of Bavaria had not
agreed to this difpofition.
Upon this there arofe difputes between the Dukes and the bifhopric,
which however were at length decided. The Dukes of Bavaria accepted
the teftament, and ceded to the bifliopric the greateft part of the
county, but referved tothemfelves the jurifdiAion thereof. In 1309 bifliop
Philip caufed the teftament of Count Gebhard of Hirfchberg to be confirmed
by the Emperor Henry VII. The other eftates, of which the bifliop-
have been for the moft part acquired by purchafe.
ric confifts,
§. 6. The epifcopal title is : By the Grace of God Biß:op and Prince
0/" Eichftett. The epifcopal arms are a crofier argent, in a ^t\6. gules. A
ijifliop's mitre crowns the ihield, and behind it appears a fword and a crofier.
Formerly alfo the bifliops ftiled themfelves Arch-chancellors of the
Holy See of Mentz, and maintained, that by virtue of this dignity, they
were pofTefTed, during the vacancy of that archbifliopric, of feveral privileges.
The bifliop of Eichßett is perpetual chancellor of the univerfity of
Ingoljladt.
§. 7. This bifliop fits in the council of the Princes of the Empire on the
fpiritual bench between the bifliops of Wortns and Speyer, and at the Diets
of the circle of Franconia between the reigning Marggraves of Brandenbiirg-Ciilmbach
and Onolzbach. His Imperial niatricular evaluation amounts
to two hundred and forty-fix florins ; and to each chamber-term he pays
two hundred and eighty-four rixdollars, fourteen kruitzers and a half. As
a prelate he ftands under the archbifliop of Mentz.
§. 8. The highly worthy chapter here confifts of fourteen capitulars,
and fourteen domicelli, who muft be all of a nobility fuitable to the foundation
and the charader of gentlemen, and fvv'ear to fixteen degrees of de-
Icent.