What About Bishoprics?

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Anyone know whether these will be implemented in the game, and if so, how?

Because I know that many bishoprics were established in the era, not only in Scandinavia and the Baltics, but also in Spain, Sicily and the Levant.

Maybe it might fit in with this whole slider thing I've heard about, where you try to balance clergy, aristocracy, burghers and peasantry?

Maybe it can even gain prestige points i.e. making me Dimwit the Pious...

 

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YEs that will be possibel, when you conquer a new land you can give it to the cleric if you want... For example

 

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The first Archbishopric of Scandinavia (Lund in southern Sweden, Danish back in 1103) celebrates its 900 year anniversary these days in fact.

Since this was the Archbishopric of the whole of Scandinavia for some years, how does one implement that? They should wield quite some powers over a huge area after all. And before that I guess all fell under the Archbishopric of Hamburg/Bremen or something.

Besides, how do you model the fact that the Churches of England and Germany competed in converting the Scandinavians?

 

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Originally posted by Doomfarer
The first Archbishopric of Scandinavia (Lund in southern Sweden, Danish back in 1103) celebrates its 900 year anniversary these days in fact.

Since this was the Archbishopric of the whole of Scandinavia for some years, how does one implement that? They should wield quite some powers over a huge area after all. And before that I guess all fell under the Archbishopric of Hamburg/Bremen or something.

Besides, how do you model the fact that the Churches of England and Germany competed in converting the Scandinavians?

Yes, it was the Archbishop of Bremen that originally had authority over all of Scandinavia and the Baltic Slavs up to the river Peene (the old border between Mecklenburg & West Pomerania).

The Archbishops' goal was to get 12 dependent dioceses, at which point they could become the "Patriarch of the North". Until then, the Pope made them the Papal Legates to the North. With the founding of Lund, this scheme was ruined.