Lower Rhenish territory administered by Drachenfels prior to 1530

 

Electorate of Cologne (adm. Myllendonk/Bronkhorst-Batenburg-Anholt/Bassenheim-Gudenau/Bassenheim-Bornheim)

 

  • Simplified country name
    • Cologne-Myllendonk (1530-1622)
    • Cologne-Anholt (1622-1642)
    • Cologne-Gudenau
      • Merl (1544-1659)
      • Drachenfels and Wolkendorf (1642-1735)
    • Cologne-Bornheim (1735-1777)
  • Nation: Ecclesiastical Germany
  • Chronology
    • 1302: Drachenfels created as a burgraviate within the Electorate of Cologne
    • 1402: Drachenfels acquired administrative right over Merl
    • 1425: Drachenfels acquired administrative rights over pledge-lordship Wolkenburg
    • 1509: Drachenfels surrendered 50 percent of administrative rights over Wolkenburg to the Lordship of Bassenheim
    • 1530: Drachenfels transferred to the Lordship of Myllendonk and Merl transferred to Bassenheim upon the extinction of the original Drachenfels line/beginning of database for Drachenfels (1)
    • 1544: Merl spun off from Bassenheim as part of Bassenhreim-Gudenau/beginning of database for Merl
    • 1622: Drachenfels transferred to Bronkhorst-Batenburg-Anholt upon the extinction of the ruling Myllendonk line
    • 1642: Drachenfels transferred to Bassenheim-Gudenau, which also obtained full administrative rights over Wolkenburg
    • 1659: Merl granted imperial immediacy in personal union with Bassenheim-Gudenau
    • 1735: Drachenfels and Wolkenburg transferred to Bassenheim-Bornheim upon the extinction of the Gudenau line
    • 1777: Terminated upon transfer of administrative rights to a subject of the Electorate
  • Successors

 

(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.

 

Wolkenburg condominium

 

  • Simplified country names
    • Cologne-Myllendonk\Bassenheim (1530-1554)
    • Cologne-Myllendonk\Gudenau (1554-1622)
    • Cologne-Heisterbach Abbey\Gudenau (1622-1642)
  • Nation: Ecclesiastical Germany
  • Predeccessor: Cologne-Drachenfels\Bassenheim
  • Chronology
    • 1509: Created when Drachenfels surrendered 50% administrative interest to Bassenheim
    • 1530: Drachenfels share transferred to Myllendonk upon the extinction of the Drachenfels line\beginning of database
    • 1554: Bassenheim share transferred to Gudenau upon its spinoff
    • 1622: Myllendonk share transferred to Heisterbach Abbey (3)
    • 1642: Terminated upon Gudenau’s inheritance of all former Drachenfels territory
  • Successor: Electorate of Cologne (adm. Bassenheim-Gudenau)

 

(3) The 1622 date is approximate. I use it because I know Myllendonk was involved after 1530 and its ruling line went extinct in 1622. However, Gudenau disputed Myllendonk’s claim and Myllendonk may have surrendered its claim to the more proximate Abbey earlier than 1622 rather than defend its claim at a distance.