County of Manderscheid-Gerolstein

 

This page covers the lineage-based country of Manderscheid-Gerolstein. Its core territory consisted of the geographic country of the same name, but it acquired administrative rights to territory under the sovereignty of other countries. No places have been assigned to this country, so I give it no simplified name. Instead, I append “Gerolstein” to the simplified names of quasi-countries over which it had administrative rights.

 

Anything involving territory outside of Manderscheidian Germany is rendered in gray. Events and countries outside the temporal scope of the database are rendered in italics.

 

• Nation: Manderscheidian Germany
• Predecessor: County of Manderscheid-Blankenheim-Gerolstein
• Chronology
  • 1530: Created upon the partition of Manderscheid-Blankenheim-Gerolstein with sovereignty over the geographic country of the same name
  • 1573: Acquires administrative rights over Monzel and Ossan (subdivisions of the Electorate of Trier)
  • 1615: Acquires full administrative rights over Kronenburg and partial administrative rights over Neuerburg and Bettingen (all Unterherrschaften of the Duchy of Luxembourg) upon the resolution of a lengthy dispute over the disposition of Virneburg lands
  • 1697: Terminated upon the extinction of the Gerolstein line
• Successor: County of Manderscheid-Blankenheim
• Personal unions
  • as primary
    • County of Gerolstein (1530-1697)
• Insourcings
  • within Duchy of Luxembourg
    • Lordship of Kronenburg (1615-1693)
    • Lordship of Neuerburg (shared with others) (1615-1697)
    • Herrschaft Bettingen (50% share) (1615-1697)
  • within Electorate of Trier
    • Gericht Monzel & Ossan (1573-1697)