Lordship/Barony/County of Bassenheim

 

  • Simplified country name: Bassenheim
  • Nation: Bassenheimian Germany
  • Chronology
    • 1337: Created as a spinoff of Waldmannhausen
    • 1477: Acquired interests in Ollbrück and Landskron condominia
    • 1509: Acquired interest in Wolkenburg condominium
    • 1512: Acquired Gudenau
    • 1530: Acquired administrative rights over Merl (1)
    • 1548: Acquired administrative rights over Bornheim
    • 1554: Spun off Gudenau (with Wolkenburg, Merl and Landskron) and Bornheim, retaining only the Bassenheim core and an interest in Herrschaft Ollbrück
    • 1555: Consolidated Bassenheimian control over Ollbrück, but shared administration with Gudenau and Bornheim/beginning of database
    • 1652: Acquired half of the Lordship of Pyrmont, entering into a personal union
    • 1654: Promoted to Barony; acquired the Lordship of Kransberg, entering into a personal union
    • 1686: Acquired sovereignty over the Lordship of Reifenberg, entering into a personal union, although administrative rights remained with the Electorate of Mainz
    • 1710: Acquired the rest of Pyrmont
    • 1725: Acquired administrative rights over Reifenberg
    • 1735: Upon the extinction of the Gudenau line, acquired a partitioned share of Ollbrück and incorporated it as a subdivision
    • 1763: Upon the extinction of the Königsfeld line, acquired Gerichte Hackenbach and Herresbach and incorporated them as subdivisions
    • 1788: Promoted to a county
    • 1794: Occupied by France/end of database
  • Spin-offs
  • Personal unions
    • as primary
      • Lordship of Kransberg (1654-1803)
      • Lordship of Reifenberg (1686-1781)
      • Lordship of Pyrmont (1710-1794)
    • as shared primary
  • Outsourcings
    • to Electorate of Mainz
      • Lordship of Riefenberg (1686-1725)

 

(1) No date for the transfer of Merl to Bassenheimian administration can be documented. I use 1530 (before the partition of Bassenheim) when the Drachenfels line went extinct. The next candidate date would be 1622, when Myllendonk, the successor to Drachenfels, went extinct.