Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg-Hoym
The Principality of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym was formed in 1707 as subordinate to Anhalt-Bernburg. Amt Hoym was the only Anhalt territory that was part of it. Haus Zeitz and Belleben (which formed Amt Zeitz, which had been under Bernburg administration since 1684) were also part of it, but they remained under Saxon and Prussian sovereignty respectively. The principality’s formal name was unconventional in that it truncated the name of the sovereign country to which it was subordinate (Anhalt-Bernburg) and added the name of territory over which it was not sovereign (Zeitz). I modify the name to conform to standards I apply everywhere else, which implies three difference country names—one for every sovereign country involved. The simplified country names I use are as follows:
- Amt Hoym: Anhalt-Bernburg-Hoym
- Haus Zeitz: Saxony-Hoym
- Belleben: Magdeburg-Hoym
In 1727, the first prince of Anhalt-Hoym died and his son, who already held sovereignty over the County of Holzappel-Schaumburg on the lower Lahn River, inherited the Ämter of Zeitz and Hoym. He renamed his collective lands as the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. (He led with territory over which he was not sovereign because doing so allowed him to use the title of prince.) I nevertheless retain the above names for the original territories and use the simplified name of Holzappel-Schaumburg-Hoym for the new territory. (Had that name actually been used, it would have been characterized as a county, but I recognize it as a principality.)
In 1806, when the Holy Roman Empire was abolished, Holzappel-Schaumburg was assigned to the Duchy of Nassau, a Napoleonic client state that became independent in 1815 under the Treaty of Vienna. Amt Zeitz was incorporated into another Napoleonic client state, the Kingdom of Westphalia, then was awarded to Prussia in 1815 (although Bernburg ownership was confirmed in 1823). The Hoym line died out in 1812 and Amt Hoym reverted to Anhalt-Bernburg.
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