County of Limburg-Hohenlimburg
This page covers the County of Limburg-Hohenlimburg, located on the Lenne River in the modern city of Hagen. It became a condominium in 1459 and left Limburgian Germany entirely upon its extinction in 1511. It 1542, it reverted to a unitary state. It was never subdivided. A list of places within it can be found on this page.
Components of simplified country names in gray are not actually part of the name, but are included to distinguish between countries with the same simplified name. I begin with some background chronology.
- 1242: County of Limburg founded
- 1304: Hohenlimburg partitioned from Styrum
- 1442: Neuenahr-Rösberg acquires sovereignty over Hohenlimburg via marriage
- 1459: Limburgians reassert partial sovereignty, creating a condominium between Limburg-Hohenlimburg and Neuenahr-Rösberg
- 1484: Rösberg replaced by Alpen as the Neuenahrian participant upon extinction of Rösberg line
Index of simplified country names referenced on this page
Condo btw. Cos. of Neuenahr-Alpen and Daun-Oberstein/Falkenstein
- Simplified country name
- Alpen\Oberstein (1511-1518)
- Alpen\Falkenstein (1518-1542)
- Nation: Jointly-Ruled Germany
- Predecessor: Condo. btw. Cos. of Limburg-Hohenlimburg and Daun-Oberstein
- Chronology
- 1511: Created when Daun-Oberstein inherits the Limburgian share upon the extinction of the Limburgian line
- 1518: Falkenstein replaces Oberstein as the Daunian participant/beginning of database
- 1542: Terminated when a Daunian heiress married the Neuenahrian count.
- Successor: County of Limburg-Hohenlimburg
County of Limburg-Hohenlimburg
- Simplified country name
- Hohenlimburg-Neuenahr-Alpen (1542-1589)
- Hohenlimburg-Steinfurt (1589-1610)
- Hohenlimburg-Bentheim-Limburg (1610-1629)
- Hohenlimburg-Bentheim-Alpen (1626-1629)
- Hohenlimburg-Tecklenburg (1629-1696)
- Hohenlimburg (1696-1806) (1)
- Nation
- Neuenahrian Germany (1542-1589)
- Bentheimian Germany (1589-1806)
- Predecessor: Condo. btw. Cos. of Neuenahr-Alpen and Daun-Oberstein/Falkenstein
- Chronology
- 1542: Created when Neuenahr acquires the Daunian shares of the condominium
- 1589: Enters into personal union with Bentheim-Steinfurt upon extinction of the Neuenahr-Alpen line
- 1610: Spun off from Bentheim-Steinfurt as Bentheim-Steinfurt-Limburg
- 1626: Inherited by Bentheim-Alpen upon extinction of the Bentheim-Limburg line
- 1629: Enters into personal union with Tecklenburg upon extinction of the Bentheim-Alpen line
- 1696: Becomes self-governing upon transfer of Tecklenburg to Solms-Braunfels
- 1806: Terminated upon the demise of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
- Personal unions
- as secondary
- County of Neuenahr-Rösberg-Alpen (1542-1589)
- County of Bentheim-Steinfurt (1589-1610)
- County of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Limburg (1610-1626)
- County of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Alpen (1626-1629)
- County of Tecklenburg (1629-1696)
- as primary
- Lordship of Rheda (1696-1806)
- as secondary
(1) The country retained the Tecklenburg name even after the loss of Tecklenburg proper, but I drop it to avoid confusion. Instead, I treat Hohenlimburg as the anchor of a new personal union between the remaining countries ruled by the Tecklenburg line.
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