Countries including the former County of Sternberg prior to 1583

 

This page covers the County of Sternberg before it was absorbed into the County of Lippe in 1583. Initially, I treat it as a personal union with Schaumburg, but administered by Lippe. I do that solely to avoid creating a simplified country name of “Schaumburg-Lippe” (i.e. the portion of the sovereign County of Schaumburg that was administered by Lippe), which I reserve for the Lippian country that formally adopted that name in 1647. By recognizing Sternberg as being in personal union with Schaumburg, I can instead use the simplified name of “Sternberg-Schaumburg-Lippe“.

 

In 1558, Sternberg became the administrative seat for a Lippian spin-off country I call “Lippe-Sternberg”. Because the territory of the former County of Sternburg was not actually Lippian, however, I call that portion  “Schaumburg-Lippe-Sternberg” and keep it in Schaumburgian Germany. Note that in the historical record, the spin-off country that existed between 1558 and 1583 was known as the County of Lippe-Spiegelberg-Pyrmont. That name never appears in the database. Instead, I represent it as one sovereign country and two quasi-countries (none of whose names appear in the historical record) as follows:

 

• Spiegelberg-Pyrmont-Sternberg (sovereign country in Lippian Germany)
• Lippe-Sternberg (quasi-country in Lippian Germany)
• Schaumburg-Lippe-Sternberg (quasi-country in Schaumbergian Germany)

 

When the spin-off country dissolved in 1583, the status of the former County of Sternberg was disputed between Schaumburg and Lippe. The dispute was resolved in favor of Lippe in 1585, when a Schaumburgian heiress married the Lippian count. I project that outcome back to 1583 and thereafter treat Sternberg as part of Lippian Germany.

 

County of Sternberg (in personal union with Co. of Schaumburg; adminstered by Lippe)

 

 

This quasi-country consisted entirely of Amt Sternberg.

 

• Simplified country name: Sternberg-Schaumburg-Lippe
• Nation: Schaumburgian Germany
• Chronology:
  • 1369: Schaumburg acquires administrative rights to the County of Sternberg
  • 1377: Schaumburg acquires sovereignty over the County of Sternberg, creating a personal union between them
  • 1405: Quasi-country created when Schaumburg grants administrative rights over Sternberg to Lippe
  • 1528: Beginning of database (upon the promotion of Lippe to a county)
  • 1559: Quasi-country terminated when Lippe transfers administrative rights to the spin-off County of Lippe-Sternberg
• Successor: County of Schaumburg-Lippe-Sternberg
• Personal unions
  • as secondary
    • County of Schaumburg (1377-1528-1559)
• Outsourcings
  • from Sternberg to
    • Lordship/County of Lippe (1405-1528-1559)

 

County of Schaumburg (administered by Lippe-Sternberg)

 

• Simplified country name: Schaumburg-Lippe-Sternberg
• Nation: Schaumburgian Germany
• Predecessor: County of Sternberg (in personal union with Co. of Schaumburg; administered by Lippe)
• Chronology
  • 1558: Quasi-country created upon the creation of a nonsovereign spin-off of Lippe (along with a personal union with Spiegelberg-Pyrmont)
  • 1583: Quasi-country terminated upon the extinction of the Lippe-Sternberg line
• Successor: County of Lippe
• Outsourcings
  • by Schaumburg to
    • Lippe-Sternberg

 

County of Lippe-Sternberg

 

• Simplified country name: Lippe-Sternberg
• Nation: Lippian Germany
• Predecessor: County of Lippe
• Chronology
  • 1558: Quasi-country created when a member of the Lippe family inherits Spiegelberg-Pyrmont and is given certain Lippe territory to administer along with it
  • 1583: Quasi-country terminated upon the extinction of the Lippe-Sternberg line
• Successor: County of Lippe
• Personal unions
  • as primary
    • County of Spiegelberg-Pyrmont
• Outsourcings
  • to Lippe-Sternberg by
    • County of Schaumburg