Lordship of Bassenheim-Gudenau

 

This page covers the lineage-based country of Bassenheim-Gudenau. It had no core territory, but formed personal unions with small lordships, participated in condominia, and acquired administrative rights to territory under the sovereignty of other countries. 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:
    • a complicated sovereign interest in the Lordship of Landskron
    • a 33% interest in the Bassenheimian share of Herrschaft Ollbrück
    • administrative rights over Merl (an Unterherrschaft of the Electorate of Cologne)
    • shared administrative rights over Wolkenburg (a “Pfandherrschaft” of the Electorate of Cologne) /
    • beginning of database
  • 1555: Acquires an expanded interest in the Ollbrück condominium when it becomes fully Bassenheimian
  • 1642: Acquires administrative rights over the Drachenfels (a Burggraviate within the Electorate of Cologne) and consolidates full administrative rights over Wolkenburg
  • 1659: Trades its interest in Landskron to the Duchy of Jülich in exchange for sovereignty over Villip, for which it forms a sovereign lordship; forms sovereign lordship for Merl at approximately the same time (1)
  • 1735: Terminated upon the extinction of the Gudenau line
• Successors
  • Lordship of Bassenheim-Bornheim
  • Lordship of Vorst-Lombeck-Gudenau
• 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; see Jointly-Ruled Germany)
    • Lordship of Ollbrück (33%) (1555-1735)
• Insourcings
  • within Electorate of Cologne (1554-1735)

 

(1) 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.