Chur

The Prince-Bishopric of Chur was an imperial ecclesiastical state in the Alpine valleys of Raetia. Its bishops ruled lands in Graubünden and the southern valleys; in 1337 Bishop Ulrich ruled from Chur.

In 1367 the bishop's subjects formed the League of God's House, which gradually took over his secular powers. Austrian troops occupied Chur in 1621 and took the Lower Engadine in the ensuing peace; a French and Swiss army retook Chur in 1624. The principality dwindled to the palace district and scattered rights; its last southern seat, Fürstenburg, was lost in 1806.