County of Manderscheid-Schleiden

 

This page covers the lineage-based country of Manderscheid-Schleiden. Its core territory consisted of the geographic county of the same name, although it lost sovereignty (but not administrative rights) over it in 1546. It also formed personal unions with other countries and acquired administrative rights to territory under the sovereignty of yet other countries. No places have been assigned to this country, so I give it no simplified name. Instead, I append “Schleiden” to the simplified names of remote geographic countries with which it was in personal union 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
  • Chronology
    • 1488: Created upon the partition of Manderscheid to include personal unions with the geographic countries of Kronenburg, Manderscheid-Niederburg, Neuerburg, and Schleiden proper
    • 1525: Acquires administrative rights over Fleringen (an Unterherrschaft of the Electorate of Trier) 
    • 1545: Acquires sovereignty over Virneburg (including Kerpen and Saffenburg) and administrative rights over Gelsdorf (an Unterherrschaft of the Electorate of Cologne)/beginning of database for places under Manderscheidian or Ecclesiastical sovereignty
    • 1546: Retains administrative rights over Kronenburg, Manderscheid-Niederburg, Neuerburg, and Schleiden proper when Luxembourg asserts full sovereignty over those countries, thereby removing them from Manderscheidian Germany
    • 1556: Luxembourg becomes Spanish/beginning of database for places under Habsburgian sovereignty
    • 1560: Terminated upon partition between Kerpen and Virneburg lines
  • Successors
  • Personal unions
  • Insourcings