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Prince-provost (German:Fürstpropst) is a rare title for a monastic superior with the ecclesiastical style ofprovost who is also aPrince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst), holding a direct vote in theImperial Diet assembly coequal to an actualPrince-abbot, as in each case treated below.

The monastery ofAugustinianCanons Regular atBerchtesgaden, established about 1102, had already enjoyed animmediate status within theBavarian Circle, equal to anImperial abbey. In 1559 the provosts were elevated to the rank of a Prince of the Empire in chief of the small lordship. The full style of the office becameFürst, Propst und Herr zu Berchtesgaden. In the course of theGerman Mediatisation in 1803, theBerchtesgaden Provostry was annexed by theElectorate of Salzburg, it finally fell to theKingdom of Bavaria in 1810.

• 1559–1567 Wolfgang Griesstätter zu Haslach; 1541–1559 Provost andImperial prelate (German:Reichsprälat) in Berchtesgaden
• 1567–1594 Jakob Pütrich
• 1594–1650Ferdinand von Bayern, alsoElector andPrince-Archbishop ofCologne, Prince-Bishop ofHildesheim,Liège andMünster from 1612, as well as Prince-Bishop ofPaderborn from 1618.
• 1650–1688Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern, also Elector of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Liège as well as Prince-Bishop of Münster from 1683
• 1688–1723Joseph Clemens von Bayern, Prince-Bishop ofFreising andRegensburg from 1685 to 1694, Elector of Cologne from 1688, Prince-Bishop of Liège (from 1694) and Hildesheim (from 1702)
• 1723–1732 Julius Heinrich von Rehlingen-Radau
• 1732–1752 Cajetan Anton von Notthaft
• 1752–1768 Michael Balthasar von Christallnigg
• 1768–1780 Franz Anton Josef von Hausen-Gleichenstorff
• 1780–1803 Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös (d. 1803), also Prince-Bishop of Freising and Regensburg from 1789

The abbots of the Benedictine Abbey known asStift Ellwangen founded in 764 had become Princes of the Empire (styleReichsabt) in 1215 with a direct vote in theImperial Diet. Since its conversion into a college of secular canons in 1460, the superiors retained that status, with their full style changed toFürstliche Pröpste zu Ellwangen ("Princely Provosts of Ellwangen") in theSwabian Circle. During the German Mediatisation on 27 April 1803 it was incorporated into theElectorate of Württemberg.

• 1460–1461 Johann von Hürnheim, previously Abbotnullius of Ellwangen 1452–1460
• 1461–1502 Albrecht von Rechberg
• 1502–1503 Bernhard von Westerstetten
• 1503–1521 Albrecht Thumb von Neuburg
• 1521–1552Henry of the Palatinate, also Prince-Bishop ofWorms from 1523 and ofUtrecht from 1524 to 1529, Prince-Bishop of Freising from 1541
• 1552–1573 CardinalOtto Truchsess von Waldburg, also Prince-Bishop ofAugsburg since 1543
• 1573–1584 Christoph von Freyberg-Eisenberg
• 1584–1603 Wolfgang von Hausen, also Bishop of Regensburg 1602–1613
• 1603–1613Johann Christoph von Westerstetten, also Bishop of Eichstädtt 1612–1637
• 1613–1620 Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Eisenberg
• 1621–1654 Johann Jakob Blarer von Wartensee
• 1654–1660 Johann Rudolf von Rechenberg
• 1660–1674Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Allmendingen
• 1674–1687 Johann Christoph Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
• 1687–1689 Heinrich Christoph von Wolframsdorf
• 1689–1694Count Palatine Louis Anton of Neuburg, alsoGrand Master of the Teutonic Knights since 1684 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1691
• 1694–1732Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, also Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and Prince-Bishop of Worms, Elector and Archbishop ofTrier from 1716 and ofMainz from 1729
• 1732–1756Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim, Elector of Trier since 1729, also Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1732
• 1756–1787 Anton Ignaz Joseph Graf von Fugger-Glött, alsoPrince-Bishop of Regensburg from 1769
• 1787–1803Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (d. 1812), Prince-Bishop of Freising 1763–1768 and of Regensburg 1763–1769, Elector of Trier and Prince-Bishop of Augsburg since 1768

The Benedictine abbey established atAlsatian Weissenburg (nowWissembourg) about 660 was eventually converted into acollegiate church (in 1524) then merged with theBishopric of Speyer in 1546. The SpeyerPrince-Bishops ruled as Provosts of Weissenburg inpersonal union, thereby holding two direct votes in the Imperial Diet. The 1648Peace of Westphalia ceded Weissenburg toFrance, and the provostry was finally disestablished in the course of theFrench Revolution in 1789.

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