Lordship of Bassenheim-Gudenau

 

• Nation: Bassenheimian Germany
• Predecessor: Lordship of Bassenheim
• Chronology
  • 1554: Created as a spinoff of Bassenheim with the following:
    • a complicated sovereign interest in the Lordship of Landskron
    • administrative rights over the Lordship of Merl (1)
    • shared administrative rights over the Pledge-Lordship of Wolkenburg/
    • beginning of database
  • 1555: Acquired an interest in the Ollbrück condominium
  • 1642: Acquired administrative rights over the Burggraviate of Drachenfels and consolidated full administrative rights over Wolkenburg
  • 1659: Traded its interest in Landskron to the Duchy of Jülich in exchange for sovereignty over Villip, for which it formed a lordship; formed lordship for Merl at the same time (2)
  • 1735: Terminated upon the extinction of the Gudenau line
• Successor: Lordship of Bassenheim-Bornheim
• Personal unions
  • as primary
    • Lordship of Merl (1659-1735)
    • Lordship of Villip (1659-1735)
  • as shared primary
    • Lordship of Landskron [Eyneburg sector] (67%) (1554-1735)
    • Lordship of Ollbrück (33%) (1555-1735)
• Insourcings
  • from Electorate of Cologne
    • Lordship of Merl (1554-1659)
    • Pledge-Lordship of Wolkenburg
      • 50% share (1554-1642)
      • 100% share (1642-1735)
    • Burggraviate of Drachenfels (1742-1735)

 

(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.

(2) No date for the removal of Merl from the close overlordship of the Electorate of Cologne can be documented. I use 1659, when Gudenau facilitated the creation of Lordship of Villip independent of Jülich. Doing the same for Merl with respect to Cologne would have been a similar process.