Lubeca

Lubeca was the prince-bishopric of Lübeck, an imperial ecclesiastical state separate from the Hanseatic city. Its bishops had settled at Eutin in 1309; in 1337 the see was held by Bishop Henry II of Bocholt.

In 1535 the cathedral chapter adopted the Lutheran confession, and from 1586 Protestant administrators of Holstein-Gottorp ruled the prince-bishopric. It survived until 1803, when its territory was secularized as the Principality of Lübeck under Oldenburg. From 1810 to 1814 France annexed the principality before it returned to Oldenburg.