County of Gerolstein

 

This page covers the geographic County of Blankenheim, located in the Eifel region and straddling the boundary between modern North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It was the only sovereign territory of the lineage-based County of Manderscheid-Blankenheim prior to 1697, when it was joined by Gerolstein.

 

Events outside the temporal scope of the database are rendered in italics.

 

  • Simplified country names
    • Gerolstein (1469-1530-1780)
    • Gerolstein-Sternberg (1780-1794)
  • Nations
  • Chronology
    • 1115: Created as a county with imperial immediacy
    • 1469: Acquired by Manderscheid
    • 1488: Assigned to Manderschied-Blankenheim-Gerolstein upon the partition of Manderschied
    • 1530: Assigned to Manderscheid-Gerolstein upon the partition of Manderscheid Blankenheim-Gerolstein/beginning of database
    • 1697: Assigned to Manderscheid-Blankenheim upon the extinction of the Gerolstein line
    • 1742: Absorbs the Lordship of Salm (Eifel) as a subdivision upon the extinction of the Mandersheid-Kail line
    • 1780: Assigned to Sternberg-Manderscheid upon extinction of the Blankeheim line
    • 1794: Occupied by France/end of database
  • Personal unions