Entities under Myllendonk sovereignty or administration

 

Lordship of Myllendonk

 

  • Simplified country name: Myllendonk
  • Nation: Minor-Dynastic Germany
  • Chronology:
    • 1264: Founded as an autonomous lordship under Guelders sovereignty
    • 1291: Acquired by Reifferscheid
    • 1330: Transferred to the Mirlar family, the first of four minor noble families to govern the lordship.
    • 1460: Beginning of database (1)
    • 1700: Achieved imperial immediacy
    • 1794: Occupied by France/end of database
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(1) Date selected to coincide with the neighboring Lordship of Dyck

 

Subdivisions of the Lordship of Myllendonk
  • Herrschaft Myllendonk1460 - 1794

 

Duchy of Guelders (adm. Myllendonk)

 

  • Simplified country name: Guelders-Myllendonk
  • Nation: Spanish Netherlands
  • Predecessor: Duchy of Guelders
  • Chronology
    • 1557: Created when Hörstgen adopted Calvinism in defiance of the ruling Habsburgs
    • 1678: Terminated upon achieving functional independence from Guelders
  • Successor: Lordship of Hörstgen

 

Lordship of Hörstgen

 

  • Simplified country name: Hörstgen
  • Nation: Minor-Dynastic Germany
  • Predecessor: Duchy of Guelders (adm. Myllendonk)
  • Chronology
    • 1678: Created
    • 1754: Administration shifted from Myllendonk to Knesebeck
    • 1794: Occupied by France/end of database

 

Subdivisions of the Lordship of Hörstgen and its predecessor