Lordship of Jever

Prior to 1532, the Lordship of Jever was ruled by Frisians. In 1532, however, Jever was under threat from other Frisian tribes, so it voluntarily subjected itself to the sovereignty of the Duchy of Brabant, while largely governing itself in nondefense matters. Because I do not allow countries to fall into more than one nation at a time, that means that Jever, as part of the Duchy of Brabant, is temporarily assigned to a non-German nation (Spanish Netherlands). It returned to a German nation (Oldenburgian) in 1575 when the the last Frisian leader died and her nephew, the Count of Oldenburg, became the new Lord of Jever (affirmed by Brabant in 1588). When the last Count of Oldenburg died in 1667, Jever was awarded to his nephew, the Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, in Ascanian Germany (although Denmark, which received the County of Oldenburg itself, did not concede the Ascanian claim until 1689). When the last Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst died in 1793, Jever was awarded to his closest relative—Catherine the Great of Russia. Jever remained Russian until 1807 and was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg after the Napoleonic Wars.

 

Until it became part of the Grand Duchy, Jever was not subdivided. You can find a list of villages in the Lordship under the dummy subdivision of Herrschaft Jever (which is just “Lordship of Jever” rendered in German). Also to be found there is a chronological list of the country names that applied to the Herrschaft.

 

Master list of countries and subdivisions in the Oldenburg region