Lordship of Bassenheim-Bassenheim

 

This page covers the lineage-based country of Bassenheim-Bassenheim. It had a core territory, but for consistency with other lineage-based countries, I treat that as a personal union between the lineage-based country and the geographic country that formed the core. Otherwise, it formed other personal unions with small lordships and participated in condominia. No places have been assigned to this country, so I give it no simplified name. Instead, I append the second component of its name to the countries with which it was in personal union or in which it participated in a condominium. (The first component is redundant with the nation name so I don’t use it in simplified country names.)

 

Anything involving territory outside of Bassenheimian Germany is rendered in gray. Events and countries outside the temporal scope of the database are rendered in italics.

 

  • Nation: Bassenheimian Germany
  • Predecessor: Lordship of Bassenheim
  • Chronology
    • 1554: Created in a partition of Bassenheim with the following:
      • the core Lordship of Bassenheim
      • a 33% interest in the Bassenheimian share of the Lordship of Ollbrück/
      • beginning of database
    • 1555: Acquires an expanded interest in the Ollbrück condominium when it becomes fully Bassenheimian
    • 1652: Acquires half of the Lordship of Pyrmont, entering into a personal union
    • 1654: Promoted to a barony; acquires the Lordship of Kransberg, entering into a personal union
    • 1686: Acquires sovereignty over the Lordship of Reifenberg, entering into a personal union, although administrative rights remain with the Electorate of Mainz
    • 1710: Acquires the rest of Pyrmont
    • 1725: Acquires administrative rights over Reifenberg from Mainz
    • 1735: Upon the extinction of the Gudenau line, acquires a partitioned share of Ollbrück, which is absorbed into the core geographic lordship
    • 1763: Upon the extinction of the Königsfeld line, acquired Gerichte Hackenbach and Herresbach, which is absorbed into the core geographic lordship
    • 1788: Promoted to a county
    • 1794: Occupied by France/end of database
  • Personal unions
  • Outsourcings
    • to Electorate of Mainz
      • Lordship of Riefenberg (1686-1725)