County/Principality of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dillenburg

 

An earlier County of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dillenburg existed between 1303 and 1561. That is outside the temporal scope of the database.

 

• Simplified country name: Dillenburg-Dillenburg
• Nation: Nassuvian Germany [Ottonian line]
• Predecessor: County of Nassau-Dillenburg
• Chronology
  • 1607: Founded upon the partition of the County of Nassau-Dillenburg
  • 1620: Acquired, upon the termination of Dillenburg-Beilstein, Amt Driedorf and the Ottonian shares of the Freier Grund and Wehrheim condominia (1)
  • 1654: Promoted to a principality
  • 1717: Acquired, upon the termination of Dillenburg-Hadamar, Amt Mengerskirchen-Ellar
  • 1739: Extinction of Dillenburg line; governance uninterrupted
  • 1742: Transferred, under the influence of Dillenburg-Diez, Amt Mengerskirchen-Ellar to Catholic Siegen
  • 1743: Terminated upon reunification of Ottonian territory
• Successor: Principality of Orange-Nassau
• Outsourcings
  • to Dillenburg-Dillenburg by
    • Principality of Nassau-Dillenburg-Siegen (condo. btw. Catholic line & Calvinist successors) (1734-1743)
    • Principality of Nassau-Dillenburg-Siegen (Calvinist successors) (1734-1743)
• Personal unions
  • Dillenburg-Dillenburg as primary
    • County of Holzappel (1656-1676)
    • Principality of Schaumburg (1656-1676)

 

(1) Actually the Dillenburg line died out and was succeeded by the Beilstein line, which was required to dissolve its own country and disperse it among the other Ottonian countries. They retained the Dillenburg name.