County of Manderscheid-Schleiden-Virneburg

 

This page covers the lineage-based country of Manderscheid-Schleiden-Virneburg. Its core territory consisted of the geographic county 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 “SChleiden-Virneburg” to the simplified names of the core country and 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-Schleiden
  • Chronology
    • 1560: Created upon the partition of Manderscheid-Schleiden with sovereignty over the geographic County of Virneburg and administrative rights over Bettingen, Kronenburg, and Neuerburg (all Unterherrschafteon of the Duchy of Luxemburg) and Gelsdorf (an Unterherrschaft of the Electorate of Cologne)
    • 1586: Acquires administrative rights over Malberg (an Unterherrschaft of the Duchy of Luxembourg)
    • 1590: Legally terminated upon the extinction of the Virneburg line
    • 1615: Functionally terminated when territorial disputes are settled
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