Duchy of Luxembourg:
Quasi-Country of Manderscheid(-Niederberg)
This page covers the geographic country of Manderscheid—specifically the portion ruled from the Niederburg. (The portion ruled from the Oberburg belonged to the Electorate of Trier.) Although this was the ancestral core of Manderscheidian Germany for four centuries, Niederburg was placed under Luxembourg sovereignty, thus exiting the Manderscheidian nation, in 1546—10 years before the database begins.
- Simplified country name
- Luxembourg-Manderschied-Schleiden (1546-1556-1560)
- Luxembourg-Manderscheid-Kerpen (1560-1615)
- Luxembourg-Kail (1615-1642)
- Luxembourg-Blankenheim (1742-1780)
- Luxembourg-Sternberg (1780-1794)
- Nation:
- Manderscheidian Germany (1133-1546)
- Habsburgian Netherlands (1546-1556)
- Spanish Netherlands (1556-1714)
- Austrian Netherlands (1714-1794)
- Chronology
- ~1133: Created as an autonomous lordship under Luxembourg sovereignty
- 1457: Promoted to a county
- 1488: Assigned to Manderscheid-Schlieden during a three-way partition
- 1546: Demoted to an outsourced subdivision of Luxembourg
- 1556: Assigned, with the rest of Luxembourg, to Spain upon the partition of Habsburgian lands/beginning of database
- 1560: Transferred to Manderscheid-Schleiden-Kerpen during a partition of Schleiden
- 1615: Transferred to Manderscheid-Kail upon the extinction of the Kerpen line in 1593 and a lengthy dispute
- 1742: Transferred to Manderscheid-Blankenheim upon the extinction of the Kail line
- 1780: Transferred to Sternberg-Manderscheid upon the extinction of the final Manderscheidian line
- 1794: Occupied by France/end of database