Lordship of Anholt

 

  • Simplified country names
    • Anholt (1540-1649)
    • Anholt-Neufviller (1649-1696)
    • Anholt-Hoogstraten (1696-1738)
    • Anholt-Salm (1738-1806)
  • Nations
    • Minor-Dynastic Germany (1540-1649)
    • Steinian Germany (1649-1806)
  • Chronology
    • ~1200: Anholt castle built by the Zuylen family
    • 1349: Anholt granted city rights
    • 1380: Acquired by the Gemen family upon the extinction of the Zuylen line
    • 1402: Acquired by the Bronkhorst-Batenburg family
    • 1540: Granted imperial immediacy/beginning of database
    • 1649: Acquired by Steinians and enters into personal union with Salm-Neufviller
    • 1696: Enters into personal union with Salm-Neufviller-Hoogstraten upon partition of Neufviller
    • 1738: Enters into personal union with Salm-Salm when Hoogstraten inherits Salm-Salm
    • 1806: Terminated upon the demise of the Holy Roman Empire/end of database
  • Successor: Principality of Salm (Napoleonic client)
  • Personal unions
    • as secondary
      • Wild- und Rheingraviate of Salm-Neufviller (1610-1696)
      • Wild- und Rheingraviate of Salm-Neufviller-Hoogstraten (1696-1738)
      • Principality of Salm-Salm (1738-1806)

 

The Lordship was not subdivided and included only the city of Anholt.

 

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