Editing Mainz (section)

===Christian Mainz===
{{See also|Free City of Mainz}}
In the early [[Middle Ages]], Mainz played a significant role in the [[Christianisation]] of the [[Germanic_Peoples|German]] and [[Slavic peoples]]. The first archbishop in Mainz, [[Boniface]], was killed in 754 while attempting to convert the [[Frisians]] to Christianity and is buried in [[Fulda]].<ref name="Sankt Bonifatius-2012">{{cite web |title=Mainz |website=Sankt Bonifatius |date=1 October 2012 |url=https://statues.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?webpage=ST&record=derp169 |access-date=31 January 2023 |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131055437/https://statues.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?webpage=ST&record=derp169 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[archbishopric]] of Mainz was established in 781 when Boniface's successor [[Lullus]] was granted the pallium by [[Pope Adrian I]].<ref name="Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS)">{{cite web |title=Lullus |website=Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/118575260 |language=de |access-date=31 January 2023 |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131060600/https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/118575260 |url-status=live }}</ref> Throughout history, the Archbishops of Mainz held high positions, including serving as archchancellors of the Holy Roman Empire. Notably, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz is unique as it is the only diocese in the world with an episcopal see called a [[Holy See]] (sancta sedes). 

[[Ibrahim ibn Yaqub]], a 10th-century Hispano-Arabic, [[Sephardic Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] traveler, writes the following about the city:

{{quote|Mainz [Maghānja] is a very large city, partly inhabited and partly cultivated fields. It is in the land of the Franks, on a river called the Rhine [Rīn]. Wheat, barley, rye, grapevines and fruit are plentiful.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ibn Faḍlān |first=Aḥmad |title=Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North |publisher=Penguin Classics |year=2012 |isbn=978-0140455076 |pages=145 |translator-last=Lunde |translator-first=Paul |translator-last2=Stone |translator-first2=Caroline}}</ref>}}

In 1244, Archbishop [[Siegfried III (Archbishop of Mainz)|Siegfried III]] granted Mainz a city charter, allowing the citizens to establish and elect a city council.<ref name="Institut für Mainzer Kirchengeschichte Bistum Mainz">{{cite web |title=50 1230–1249 Siegfried III. von Eppstein |website=Institut für Mainzer Kirchengeschichte Bistum Mainz |url=https://bistummainz.de/kunst-gebaeude-geschichte/kirchengeschichte/forschung/viten-mainzer-erz-bischoefe/mainzer-erzbischoefe-1198-bis-1381/50-12301249-siegfried-iii.-von-eppstein/ |language=de |access-date=31 January 2023 |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131061935/https://bistummainz.de/kunst-gebaeude-geschichte/kirchengeschichte/forschung/viten-mainzer-erz-bischoefe/mainzer-erzbischoefe-1198-bis-1381/50-12301249-siegfried-iii.-von-eppstein/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1461, a feud between two archbishops, [[Diether von Isenburg]] and [[Adolf II von Nassau]], caused unrest in the city. Following Archbishop Adolf's raid on Mainz in 1462, those who opposed him, including [[Johannes Gutenberg]], were either expelled or imprisoned. Ultimately, after the death of Archbishop Adolf II, Diether von Isenburg was reinstated as the Archbishop of Mainz, duly elected by the chapter and appointed by the Pope.<ref name="regionalgeschichte.net">{{cite web |title=Diether von Isenburg |website=regionalgeschichte.net |url=https://www.alte-uni-mainz.de/biographien-erzbischoefe/diether-von-isenburg.html |access-date=31 January 2023 |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131061757/https://www.alte-uni-mainz.de/biographien-erzbischoefe/diether-von-isenburg.html |url-status=live }}</ref>