Lordship of Anholt
- Simplified country names
- Anholt (1540-1649)
- Anholt-Neufviller (1649-1696)
- Anholt-Hoogstraten (1696-1738)
- Anholt-Salm (1738-1806)
- Nations
- Minor-Dynastic Germany (1540-1649)
- Steinian Germany (1649-1806)
- Chronology
- ~1200: Anholt castle built by the Zuylen family
- 1349: Anholt granted city rights
- 1380: Acquired by the Gemen family upon the extinction of the Zuylen line
- 1402: Acquired by the Bronkhorst-Batenburg family
- 1525: Assigned to Bronkhorst-Batenburg-Anholt upon the partition of Bronkhorst-Batenburg territories
- 1540: Granted imperial immediacy/beginning of database
- 1542: Acquires administrative rights over Herrlichkeiten Hönnepel and Moyland (Unterherrschaften of the Duchy of Cleves)
- 1622: Acquires administrative rights over Herrschaft Drachenfels (an Unterherrschaft of the Electorate of Cologne)
- 1636: Acquires administrative rights over Herrschaft Odenkirchen (an Unterherrschaft of the Electorate of Cologne)
- 1642: Surrenders administrative rights over Drachenfels to Bassenheim-Gudenau
- 1649: Acquired by Steinians and enters into personal union with Salm-Neufviller; surrenders administrative rights over Odenkirchen to subjects of the Electorate
- 1662: Surrenders administrative rights over Moyland
- 1666: Surrenders administrative rights over Hönnepel
- 1696: Enters into personal union with Salm-Neufviller-Hoogstraten upon partition of Neufviller
- 1738: Enters into personal union with Salm-Salm when Hoogstraten inherits Salm-Salm
- 1806: Terminated upon the demise of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
- Successor: Principality of Salm (Napoleonic client)
- Personal unions
- as secondary
- Wild- und Rheingraviate of Salm-Neufviller (1649-1696)
- Wild- und Rheingraviate of Salm-Neufviller-Hoogstraten (1696-1738)
- Principality of Salm-Salm (1738-1806)
- as secondary
- Insourcings to Anholt by
- within Duchy of Cleves (1542-1666)
- within Electorate of Cologne (1622-1649)
The Lordship was not subdivided and included only the city of Anholt.
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