page_title: Prince-provost
section_title: Prince-provosts of Berchtesgaden
hierarchical_section_title: Prince-provost / Berchtesgaden Provostry / Prince-provosts of Berchtesgaden
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (1739-1812) Deutsch: Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen (1739-1812), Fürstpropst von Ellwangen, letzter Erzbischof und Kurfürst von Trier und Fürstbischof von Augsburg.
context_page_description: Prince-provost is a rare title for a monastic superior with the ecclesiastical style of provost who is a Prince of the Church in the sense that he also ranks as a secular 'prince', notably a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, holding a direct vote in the Imperial Diet assembly coequal to an actual Prince-abbot, as in each case treated below.
context_section_description: 1559–1567 Wolfgang Griesstätter zu Haslach; 1541–1559 Provost and Imperial prelate (German: Reichsprälat) in Berchtesgaden
  1567–1594 Jakob Pütrich
  1594–1650 Ferdinand von Bayern, also Elector and Prince-Archbishop of Cologne, Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim, Liège and Münster from 1612, as well as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn from 1618.
  1650–1688 Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern, also Elector of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Liège as well as Prince-Bishop of Münster from 1683
  1688–1723 Joseph Clemens von Bayern, Prince-Bishop of Freising and Regensburg 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
caption: Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, last Prince-Provost of Ellwangen
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