Freising

The Prince-Bishopric of Freising was an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire, centred on Freising in Bavaria and possessing scattered estates as far as Tyrol. In 1337 its bishop also governed a larger diocese that included Munich.

The Bavarian Wittelsbach dukes resented the bishop's jurisdiction over Munich. In 1632 Freising paid Gustavus Adolphus a ransom but was sacked nonetheless; famine and plague followed the Swedes' return in 1646. The principality was secularised and annexed to Bavaria in 1802 and 1803.