page_title: Prüm Abbey
hierarchical_section_title: Prüm Abbey
caption_attribution_description: English: Princely Abbey of Prüm, cropped from a late 19th century map of the Holy Roman Empire showing Prüm as at 1400. The largest neighbours are the Duchy of Jülich (blue-green, north), the Bishopric of Liège (purple, northwest), the Duchy of Luxembourg (orange, south, labelled Herzogtum Lützelburg) and the Electorate of Trier (purple, west). Also visible is the large Electorate of the Palatinate in yellowish green at the southeast of the map (labelled Kurpfalz) and the Rhine — the bold black line running north–south in the east of the map. Deutsch: Fürstabtei Prüm, vom Karte des HRR im 1400 Français&#160;: Abbaye impériale de Prüm, d'une carte du Saint-Empire à 1400
context_page_description: Prüm Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Prüm, now in the diocese of Trier, founded by the Frankish widow Bertrada the elder and her son Charibert, Count of Laon, on 23 June 720. The first abbot was Angloardus.
  The Abbey ruled over a vast hinterland comprising dozens of towns, villages and hamlets. Its abbot enjoyed the status of a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and as such had seat and vote on the Ecclesiastical Bench of the College of ruling princes of the Imperial Diet. After 1574, the archbishops-electors of Trier became the "perpetual administrators" of Prüm Abbey which, while preserving its princely status, became, de facto, an adjunct of Trier.
context_section_description: Prüm Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Prüm, now in the diocese of Trier (Germany), founded by the Frankish widow Bertrada the elder and her son Charibert, Count of Laon, on 23 June 720. The first abbot was Angloardus. 
  The Abbey ruled over a vast hinterland comprising dozens of towns, villages and hamlets. Its abbot enjoyed the status of a prince (Fürst) of the Holy Roman Empire, and as such had seat and vote on the Ecclesiastical Bench of the College of ruling princes of the Imperial Diet. After 1574, the archbishops-electors of Trier became the "perpetual administrators" of Prüm Abbey which, while preserving its princely status, became, de facto, an adjunct of Trier.
caption: The Princely Abbey of Prüm, shown within part of the Holy Roman Empire as at 1400.
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