County of Bentheim & Steinfurt-Alpen
This page covers the lineage-based country of Bentheim & Steinfurt-Alpen. It had no core territory, but formed personal unions with geographic countries 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 “Bentheim-Alpen” to the simplified names of geographic countries with which it was in personal union and of quasi-countries over which it had administrative rights.
Anything involving territory outside of Bentheimian Germany is rendered in gray.
- Nation: Bentheimian Germany
- Predecessors
- County of Bentheim & Steinfurt-Limburg (Hohenlimburg only)
- County of Bentheim & Steinfurt (everything else)
- Chronology
- 1610: Created as a spin-off of Bentheim & Steinfurt with administrative rights over Alpen and Helpenstein (both Unterherrschaften of the Electorate of Cologne)
- 1626: Acquires sovereignty over Hohenlimburg upon the extinction of the Bentheim-Limburg line
- 1629: Terminated upon the extinction of the Bentheim-Alpen line
- Personal unions
- as primary
- County of Hohenlimburg (1626-1629)
- as primary
- Insourcings:
- within Electorate of Cologne (1610-1629)
- including Herrschaft Alpen (1610-1629)
- within Electorate of Cologne (1610-1629)
