Entities under Myllendonk sovereignty

 

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
  • Personal unions
    • as primary
      • Lordship of Hörstgen (1557-1754)
  • Insourcings
    • from Electorate of Cologne
      • Pfandschaft Amt Wolkenburg (50%) (1530-1622)
      • Burggraviate of Drachenfels (1530-1622)
    • from Duchy of Jülich
      • Herrlichkeit Warden (1521-1660)

 

(1) Date selected to coincide with the neighboring Lordship of Dyck

 

Subdivisions of the Lordship of Myllendonk
  • Herrschaft Myllendonk1460 - 1794

 

Lordship of Hörstgen

 

  • Simplified country name
    • Hörstgen-Myllendonk (1557-1754)
    • Hörstgen (1754-1794)
  • Nation: Minor-Dynastic Germany
  • Predecessor: Burggraviate of Drachenfels
  • Chronology
    • 1530: Nominally created upon the extinction of the Drachenfels line (1)
    • 1557: Functionally created when Hörstgen adopted Calvinism in defiance of the Habsburgian feudal lords
    • 1678: Achieved functional independence from the Habsburgs
    • 1754: Sovereignty shifted from Myllendonk to Knesebeck
    • 1794: Occupied by France/end of database
  • Personal unions
    • as secondary
      • Lordship of Myllendonk (1557-1754)

 

(1) Myllendonk administration began in 1530, but country status was not really achieved until 1557 with the change in religion

 

Subdivisions of the Lordship of Hörstgen