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This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter N:
Name | Type | Imperial circle | Imperial diet | History |
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County 1194: Margaviate |
Burg | n/a | 998: Gaugrave ("gau count") in Lommegau invested with title Namur 1067: Partitioned into itself and Durbuy 1099: Acquired Brunengeruz 1102: Partitioned into itself and La Roche c. 1147: Acquired Durbuy 1153: Acquired La Roche 1155: Acquired Grevenmacher 1189: La Roche and Durbuy to Luxembourg; Namur made a fief of Hainaut 1194: HRE Margrave 1256: To Luxembourg 1268: To Flanders 1305: Partitioned from Flanders 1362: Imperial immediacy 1429: Sold to Burgundy 1483: To the Burgundian Netherlands 1516: To the Spanish Netherlands 1713: To the Austrian Netherlands 1794: To France 1815: To the Netherlands 1830: To Belgium |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1159: Counts of Laurenburg assumed the name Nassau; fief of the Archbishopric of Trier 1192: Imperial immediacy 1255: Partitioned into Nassau Ottonian Line and Nassau Walramian Line |
![]() Duke of Nassau, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Count of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen & Dietz, Burgrave of Hammerstein, Lord of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg & Eppstein |
Duchy | n/a | n/a | 1806: Formed for Nassau-Usingen 1866: To Prussia |
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County | Low Rhen | n/a | 1343: Partitioned from Nassau-Siegen 1380: Partitioned into itself and Nassau-Liebenscheid 1425: Partitioned into itself and Nassau-Liebenscheid 1513: Partitioned into itself and Nassau-Liebenscheid 1561: Extinct; to Nassau-Dillenburg 1607: Partitioned from Nassau-Dillenburg 1620: Inherited and renamed to Nassau-Dillenburg |
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County | Low Rhen | n/a | 1475: Partitioned from Nassau-Dillenburg 1538: In personal union with Châlon-Orange 1544: Extinct; to Nassau-Dillenburg |
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County 1654: Principality |
Low Rhen | n/a | 1303: Partitioned from Nassau Ottonian Line 1308: Acquired Kalenberg as fief of the Bishopric of Worms 1310: Acquired Nederoth and Heimau 1328: Extinct; given to Otto II of Nassau-Siegen, a son of the ruling count 1343: Acquired half of Nassau-Siegen 1403: Acquired Breda by marriage 1475: Partitioned into Nassau-Breda and itself 1559: Partitioned into Orange-Nassau and itself 1607: Partitioned into itself, Nassau-Siegen, Nassau-Beilstein, Nassau-Dietz and Nassau-Hadamar 1654: HRE Prince 1739: Extinct; divided between Nassau-Siegen Catholic Line and Orange-Nassau |
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County 1654: Principality |
Low Rhen | n/a | 1607: Partitioned from Nassau-Dillenburg 1654: HRE Prince 1702: Superseded by Orange-Nassau |
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County | Upp Rhen | WT | 1593: Partitioned from Nassau-Weilburg 1602: Extinct; to Nassau-Ottweiler 1627: Partitioned from Nassau-Saarbrücken 1632: Extinct; divided between Nassau-Saarbrücken, Nassau-Idstein and Nassau-Weilburg |
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County 1650: Principality |
Low Rhen | n.a | 1303: Partitioned from Nassau Ottonian Line 1394: Extinct; to Nassau-Dillenburg 1607: Partitioned from Nassau-Dillenburg 1643: Esterau and Isselbach sold to Holzappel 1650: HRE Prince 1711: Extinct; divided between Orange-Nassau, Nassau-Dillenburg, Nassau-Siegen Catholic Line and Nassau-Siegen Calvinist Line |
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County 1688: Principality |
Upp Rhen | WT | 1370: Partitioned from Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1386: Renamed to Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1480: Partitioned from Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1509: Extinct; to Nassau-Wiesbaden 1627: Partitioned from Nassau-Saarbrücken 1635: Under imperial ban 1648: Restored 1688: HRE Prince 1721: Extinct; to Nassau-Ottweiler |
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County | Low Rhen | n/a | 1380: Partitioned from Nassau-Beilstein 1414/8: Extinct; to Nassau-Beilstein 1425: Partitioned from Nassau-Beilstein 1477: Extinct; to Nassau-Beilstein 1513: Partitioned from Nassau-Beilstein 1556: Extinct; to Nassau-Beilstein |
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County | Upp Rhen | WT | 1561: Partitioned from Nassau-Weilburg 1574: Acquired Saarbrücken, Saarwerden and Stauf 1602: Extinct; to Nassau-Ottweiler |
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County 1688: Principality |
Upp Rhen | PR | 1802: Created for William V of Orange-Nassau in Corvey and Fulda 1803: Acquired Dietkirchen, Dortmund and Weingarten Abbey 1804: Bandern and St Gerold sold to Austria 1806: Acquired Orange-Nassau; lost Dietkirchen and Orange-Nassau to Berg; Corvey, Dortmund and Fulda to France; and Weingarten to Württemberg |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1255: Partitioned from Nassau 1303: Partitioned into Nassau-Siegen, Nassau-Hadamar and Nassau-Dillenburg |
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County | Upp Rhen | WT | 1593: Partitioned from Nassau-Weilburg 1602: Renamed to Nassau-Saarbrücken 1659: Partitioned from Nassau-Saarbrücken 1728: Extinct; to Nassau-Usingen |
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County 1735: Principality |
Upp Rhen | WT | 1442: Partitioned from Nassau-Weilburg 1574: Extinct; divided between Nassau-Weilburg (Ottweiler, Homburg, Kirchheim and Lahr-Mahlberg) and Nassau-Neuweilnau (Saarbrücken, Saarwerden and Stauf) 1602: Renamed from Nassau-Ottweiler 1627: Partitioned into itself, Nassau-Idstein, Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Gleiberg 1635: Under imperial ban 1648: Restored 1659: Partitioned into Nassau-Ottweiler, itself and Nassau-Usingen 1723: Extinct; to Nassau-Ottweiler 1735: Partitioned from Nassau-Usingen 1795: To France 1797: Extinct; rights to Nassau-Usingen |
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County 1654: Principality |
Low Rhen | n/a | 1648: Count of Holzappel by marriage 1676: Extinct; to Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym |
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County 1707: Principality |
Low Rhen | n/a | 1303: Partitioned from Nassau Ottonian Line 1343: Partitioned into Nassau-Dillenburg and Nassau-Beilstein 1607: Partitioned from Nassau-Dillenburg 1648: Partitioned into Nassau-Siegen Catholic Line and Nassau-Siegen Calvinist Line 1707: Reunited by Nassau-Siegen Calvinist Line 1735: Extinct; divided between Nassau-Dillenburg and Orange-Nassau |
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County 1664: Principality |
Low Rhen | n/a | 1648: Partitioned from Nassau-Siegen 1664: HRE Prince 1707: Renamed to Nassau-Siegen |
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County 1652: Principality |
Low Rhen | n/a | 1648: Partitioned from Nassau-Siegen 1652: HRE Prince 1707: To Nassau-Siegen Calvinist Line 1739: Acquired half of Nassau-Dillenburg 1742: Sold to Orange-Nassau 1743: Extinct |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1355: Partitioned from Nassau Walramian Line 1390: Extinct; to Nassau-Weilburg |
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County 1688: Principality |
Upp Rhen | WT | 1659: Partitioned from Nassau-Saarbrücken 1688: HRE Prince 1735: Partitioned into itself and Nassau-Saarbrücken 1795: Left bank territories to France 1803: Compensated with lands from Cologne, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Mainz and the Palatinate 1806: Formed the Duchy of Nassau |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1255: Partitioned from Nassau 1294: Acquired Weilburg 1333: Acquired Merenberg by marriage 1355: Partitioned into Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Sonnenberg |
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County 1688: Principality |
Upp Rhen | WT | 1355: Partitioned from Nassau Walramian Line 1381: Acquired Saarbrücken-Commercy by marriage 1442: Partitioned into itself and Nassau-Saarbrücken 1561: Partitioned into itself and Nassau-Neuweilnau 1574: Acquired half of Nassau-Saarbrücken 1593: Partitioned into Nassau-Ottweiler, itself and Nassau-Gleiberg 1597: Extinct; to Nassau-Ottweiler 1627: Partitioned from Nassau-Saarbrücken 1635: Under imperial ban 1648: Restored 1688: HRE Prince 1737: Bench of Secular Princes 1806: To the Duchy of Nassau |
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County | Upp Rhen | n/a | 1370: Partitioned from Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1386: Extinct; to Nassau-Idstein 1480: Partitioned from Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein 1509: Renamed to Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein |
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County | Upp Rhen | n/a | 1355: Partitioned from Nassau Walramian Line 1370: Partitioned into Nassau-Wiesbaden and Nassau-Idstein 1386: Reunited by Nassau-Idstein 1480: Partitioned into Nassau-Wiesbaden and Nassau-Idstein 1509: Reunited by Nassau-Wiesbaden 1605: Extinct; to Nassau-Saarbrücken |
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Bishopric | Upp Sax | EC | 968: Established at Zeitz 1029: Relocated to Naumburg 1564: To Saxony; abolished |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1078: To Eberstein-Naugard as fief of the Bishopric of Kammin 1534: To Pomerania-Wolgast |
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Imperial City | n/a | n/a | 1286: Imperial Free City 1395: To the Palatinate |
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Lordship 1726: County |
Swab | SC | 1241: First mentioned; a branch of Schwaigern that was a fief of the Bishopric of Würzburg 1364: Acquired Schwaigern as fief of the Palatinate 1434: Acquired Adelshofen as fief of Württemberg 1520: Partitioned into Neipperg-Adelshofen and Neipperg-Schwaigern 1726: Renamed from Neipperg-Schwaigern 1766: Bench of Counts of Swabia 1806: To Württemberg |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1520: Partitioned from Neipperg 1708: Extinct; to Neipperg-Schwaigern |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1652: Partitioned from Neipperg-Schwaigern 1672: Extinct; to Neipperg-Schwaigern |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1581: Partitioned from Neipperg-Schwaigern 1649: Extinct; to Neipperg-Schwaigern |
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Lordship 1672: Barony |
n/a | n/a | 1520: Partitioned from Neipperg 1581: Partitioned into itself and Neipperg-Streichenberg 1652: Partitioned into Neipperg-Klingenberg and itself 1672: HRE Baron 1726: HRE Count; renamed to Neipperg |
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County 1401: Landgraviate |
n/a | n/a | 958: First mentioned; branch of the Eberhardinger 1105: Partitioned into itself and Mörsberg 1170: Extinct; to Veringen 1216-22: Partitioned from Veringen 12??: Acquired Stockach 1401: Acquired Hegau and Madach 1422: Extinct; to Tengen 1465: Sold to Austria; attached to Further Austria 1805: To Württemberg 1810: Parts to Baden |
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Abbacy | Swab | SP | 1095: Formed 1764: Imperial immediacy 1803: To Thurn and Taxis 1806: To Bavaria 1810: To Württemberg |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1303: First mentioned as a vassal of Deutz Abbey 1335: Vassal of Guelders 1368: Vassal of Berg 1396: Acquired Ehreshoven 1429: Acquired Herten 1436: Acquired Herrnstein (Stein) 1477: Partitioned into Nesselrode-Stein, Nesselrode-Ehrenstein and Nesselrode-Ereshoven 1508: Acquired Hugenpoet 1511: Acquired Ketteler |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1477: Partitioned from Nesselrode 1524: Extinct; to Rennenberg 1574: To Loe-Wissen 1582: To Nesselrode-Stein |
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Lordship 1653: Barony 1705: County |
n/a | n/a | 1477: Partitioned from Nesselrode 1500: Acquired Palsterkamp 1511: Partitioned into Nesselrode-Palsterkamp and itself 1653: HRE Baron 1705: HRE Count 1806: Mediatised |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1569: Partitioned from Nesselrode-Stein 1589: Extinct; to Nesselrode-Stein |
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Lordship 1653: Barony |
n/a | n/a | 1508: Created when John of Nesselrode acquired Hugenpoet; fief of Cleves 1653: HRE Baron |
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Barony 1710: County |
Low Rhen | WE | 1708: Renamed from Nesselrode-Rhade 1710: HRE Count 1776: Acquired Reichenstein 1806: To Berg and Nassau |
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Lordship 1653: Barony 1705: County |
n/a | n/a | 1511: Partitioned from Nesselrode-Ereshoven 1533: Extinct; to Loe von Wissem |
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Barony 1702: HRE County |
Low Rhen | WE | 1698: Renamed from Nesselrode-Reichenstein after purchase of Reichenstein 1702: HRE County; Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle and Bench of Counts of Westphalia 1776: Extinct; to Nesselrode-Landskron |
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Lordship 1652: Barony |
n/a | n/a | 1569: Partitioned from Nesselrode-Stein 1585: Extinct; divided between Nesselrode-Herten and Nesselrode-Stein 1624: Partitioned from Nesselrode-Stein 1652: HRE Baron 1696: Acquired Landskron 1708: Renamed to Nesselrode-Landskron |
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Lordship 1652: Barony |
n/a | n/a | 1477: Partitioned from Nesselrode 1478: Acquired Rhade 1582: Acquired Ehrenstein 1569: Partitioned into Nesselrode-Herten, itself and Nesselrode-Rhade 1615: Acquired Lüttinghof 1624: Partitioned into itself and Nesselrode-Rhade 1652: HRE Baron 1698: Acquired Reichenstein; renamed to Nesselrode-Reichenstein |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1234: Partitioned from Bruchhausen 1384: To Hoya 1388: Extinct |
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County | n/a | n/a | c. 1050: First mentioned; to Formbach-Neuburg 1158: To Andechs-Meran 1248: To Bavaria 1283: To Austria 1463: To Rohrbach 1469: To Ortenburg 1473: To Austria 1497: To Bavaria-Landshut 1503: To Bavaria 1507: To Austria 1514: To Canissa as fief of Austria 1528: To Salm-Neuburg as fief of Austria 1654: To Sinzendorf as fief of Austria 1680: To Austria 1698: To Hamilton as fief of Austria 1719: To Lamberg-Sprinzenstein as fief of Austria 1730: To the Bishopric of Passau as fief of Austria 1803: To Bavaria 1815: Divided between Austria and Bavaria |
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County 1643: Principality |
n/a | n/a | 1032: First mentioned as belonging to the Kingdom of Burgundy 1034: To Fenis; Counts of Neuchâtel 1218: Partitioned into Neuchâtel German Line and Neuchâtel Romance Line 1288: Romance line extinct; given to Chalon-Arly who took the name Neuchâtel 1373: Extinct in male line 1375: Acquired Neuchâtel-Nidau by marriage 1395: Extinct; to Freiburg 1444: To Hachberg-Sausenberg 1503: Extinct in male line 1504: To Orléans-Longueville by marriage 1643: HRE Prince 1648: Left the empire as ally of the Swiss Confederation 1707: In personal union with Prussia 1806: To France 1814: In personal union with Prussia 1815: Joined Switzerland |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1225: Partitioned from Neuchâtel German Line 1276: Partitioned into Neuchâtel-Aarberg-Aarberg and Neuchâtel-Aarberg-Valangin |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1276: Partitioned from Neuchâtel-Aarberg 1367: Sold Aarberg to Neuchâtel-Nidau; then extinct in male line 1377: Rest sold to de la Tour-Châtillon |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1276: Partitioned from Neuchâtel-Aarberg 1407: Sold Willisau to Lucerne 1450: Imperial immediacy 1517: Extinct; to Challant |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1218: Partitioned from Neuchâtel 1225: Partitioned into Neuchâtel-Nidau, Neuchâtel-Strassberg and Neuchâtel-Aarberg |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1225: Partitioned from Neuchâtel German Line 1375: Extinct; to Neuchâtel by marriage |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1218: Partitioned from Neuchâtel 1288: Extinct; to Chalon-Arly who took the name Neuchâtel |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1225: Partitioned from Neuchâtel German Line 1327: Sold Balm to Neuchâtel-Nidau c. 1360: Rest sold to Neuchâtel-Nidau 1364: Extinct |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1225: Partitioned from Are-Nürburg (Nürburg) 1276: Partitioned into Neuenahr-Neuenahr and Neuenahr-Rösberg 1419: Annexed to Virneburg 1545: To Julich |
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County | El Rhin | WE | 1465: Partitioned from Neuenahr-Rösberg 1542: Acquired Limburg 1589: Extinct in male line; divided between itself, Limburg and Neuenahr-Bedburg 1602: Acquired Limburg 1610: Extinct; to Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda |
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County | El Rhin | WE | 1465: Partitioned from Neuenahr-Rösberg 1519: Acquired Moers 1578: Extinct; to Neuenahr-Alpen 1589: Partitioned from Neuenahr-Alpen 1600: Extinct; to Orange-Nassau |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1276: Partitioned from Neuenahr 1358: Extinct in male line; succession dispute between Neuenahr-Rösberg and Saffenburg 1371: To Saffenburg-Neuenahr 1382: Made fief of the Archbishopric of Cologne 1424: To Virneburg-Saffenburg as fief of the Archbishopric of Cologne 1546: To Jülich |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1276: Partitioned from Neuenahr 1465: Partitioned into itself, Neuenahr-Alpen and Neuenahr-Bedburg 1484: Extinct; to Neuenahr-Bedburg |
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Raugraviate | n/a | n/a | 1253: Partitioned from Baumburg 1338: Half sold to Mainz 1457: Extinct; rest to Mainz |
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Imperial City | n/a | n/a | 1219: Imperial Free City Formerly a territory of Zähringen 1311: To Austria; attached to Further Austria |
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Margraviate | n/a | n/a | 1252: Brandenburg and Magdeburg purchased the Lubusz Land The Neumark was gradually expanded eastwards through acquisitions from Poland and the Teutonic Order 1402: Sold to the Teutonic Order 1463: Sold to Brandenburg 1535: To Brandenburg-Küstrin 1571: To Brandenburg |
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Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1163: First mention of the Knights of Nickenich 1376: Acquired Weiherhofe as fief of the Archbishopric of Cologne 1440: Lost Weiherhofe 1444: Enfeoffed to the Archbishopric of Trier 1546: To Leyen-Saffig as fief of the Archbishopric of Trier 1611: To Leyen-Nickenich as fief of the Archbishopric of Trier 1714: To Leyen-Hohengeroldseck as fief of the Archbishopric of Trier 1795: To France 1815: To Prussia |
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County | n/a | n/a | c. 1065: Volkold I of Malsburg enfeoffed with Bingenheim by Fulda Abbey; assumed the name Nidda 1187: Most of Nidda given to the Order of St John 1191: Extinct; to Ziegenhain as fief of Fulda Abbey 1234: Imperial immediacy in the City of Nidda 1258: Partitioned from Ziegenhain 1333: Extinct; to Ziegenhain |
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Imperial Valley | n/a | n/a | To Lenzburg 1173: To Habsburg 1291: With Obwalden became a founding member of the Swiss League 1324: Imperial immediacy 1648: Left Empire as member of Swiss Confederation |
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Abbacy | Bav | RP | 788? 1002: Imperial immediacy 1803: To the Archbishopric of Regensburg |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1215: Acquired by Hoya 1345: To Hoya and Bruchhausen, commonly called Nienburg 1582: To Brunswick-Calenberg |
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Abbacy | n/a | n/a | 970: Formed 10th Century: Imperial immediacy 1166: To the Archbishopric of Magdeburg 1593: To Anhalt 1680: Suppressed |
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Margraviate | n/a | n/a | Originally a gau county of Bavaria between Neuburg and Regensburg 939: Separated from Bavaria and invested to Schweinfurt 1004: Temporal authority given to the Bishopric of Bamberg 1060: By 1060 extended to the Main and the Egerland c. 1073: Invested to Vohburg 1255: To Bavaria 1329: To the Palatinate; henceforth known as Upper Palatinate |
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Imperial City | Low Sax | RH | 1220: Imperial Free City 1802: To Prussia 1807: To Westphalia 1813: To Prussia |
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Imperial City | Swab | SW | 1215: Imperial Free City 1802: To Bavaria |
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Margraviate | n/a | n/a | 965: Partitioned from Marca Geronis 983: Abandoned in the Great Wendish Rebellion 1134: Reestablished 1150: Inherited Brandenburg; henceforth known as the Margraviate of Brandenburg |
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County | n/a | n/a | c. 950: First mentioned 1144: Extinct; to Saxony |
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County | Franc | FR | 1673: Line established when John Hartwig of Nostitz-Rokitnitz purchased Rieneck 1803: Rieneck sold to Colloredo-Mansfeld |
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County | n/a | n/a | 1144: Partitioned from Are (Are-Nürburg) 1218: Partitioned into itself and Neuenahr 1290: Extinct; to the Archbishopric of Cologne |
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Burgraviate 1363: Princely Burgraviate |
n/a | n/a | 1105: Established for Raab 1192: Extinct; to Zollern 1218: Partitioned from Zollern 1248: Acquired Bayreuth 1331: Acquired Ansbach 1340: Acquired Kulmbach and Plassenburg 1363: HRE Princely Burgrave 1417: Acquired and henceforth known as the Electorate of Brandenburg 1427: Burgraviate sold to city 1440: Partitioned into Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth |
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Imperial City | Franc | SW | 1219: Free Imperial City 1427: Acquired Castle of Nuremberg 1505: Gained territory after Landshut War of Succession 1806: To Bavaria |
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