Basel
The Prince-Bishopric of Basel was an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire on the Upper Rhine and in the Jura. In 1337 Bishop Johann II Senn von Münsingen ruled its lands from Basel.
The city gained effective independence in the late fourteenth century. At the Council of Basel, delegates elected antipope Felix V in 1439. Basel joined the Swiss Confederation in 1501 and adopted the Reformation in 1528, when the bishop withdrew to Porrentruy. French revolutionary forces dissolved the remaining prince-bishopric in 1792.
Characters
- Blanche of Savoy-Vaud
- Gerhard von Wippingen
- William of Grandson the Great
- Hartung Münch
- Jacques de Grandson
- John of Chalon-Arlay, bishop of Basel
- Jeanne de Pesmes
- Johann II Senn von Münsingen
- Othon II of Grandson
- Peter II of Grandson