Three Bishoprics

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The Three Bishoprics of Verdun, Metz and Toul
The Three Bishoprics of Verdun, Metz and Toul

The Three Bishoprics (French: Trois-Évêchés) constituted a province of pre-Revolutionary France. The three bishoprics in question were Metz, Toul and Verdun in the region of Lorraine. These were territories of the Holy Roman Empire until they were seized by French King Henry II between April and June of 1552, this conquest being legitimised ahead of time by a January 15, 1552 treaty with the Protestant Imperial princes and the Ottoman Empire against the Habsburgs, signed at Chambord, which confirmed the French king's lordship over Metz, Toul, Verdun "and other towns of the Empire that do not speak German".

At the end of the Thirty Years' War, they were awarded to France by the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.


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