Lordship of Wasenbach

 

This page covers the Lordship of Wasenbach—a single-village country that was ruled as a fief granted by Hesse to a series of minor lords.

 

• Simplified country name: Wasenbach
• Nation: Minor-Dynastic Germany
• Chronology
  • 1428: Founded by Mudersbach of Virneburg, who wrested control from Leiningen-Westerburg
  • 1597: beginning of database (1)
  • ~1612: Knights of Cronburg assert control (2)
  • 1704: Knights of Boos von Waldeck assert control
  • 1806: Terminated upon the demise of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
• Successor: Duchy of Nassau (a Napoleonic client)

 

(1) I set the date to match when the counts of the neighboring country of Leiningen-Schaumburg took over all of Leiningen-Westerburg.

(2) Sources suggest that the switch was related to the 1606 resolution of a dispute with Hesse or the 1618 beginning of the Thirty-Years War. I split the difference.