County of Schaumburg (in personal union with Hesse-Kassel)

After the County of Schaumburg was partitioned in 1647, the Hessian portion retained the name. Aside from adding a few villages during the 18th century, the county remained unchanged until the end of the Holy Roman Empire, when it was absorbed into the Kingdom of Westphalia—a Napoleonic client state.

 

Notwithstanding the official name, I find it preferable in the simplified name to distinguish the Hessian county from the original. To parallel the name adopted by the Lippian portion, one could append “-Hesse” to the end of it. There were, however, three different Hessian states at the time, so that would still be ambiguous. Because the Hessian state with sovereignty over Schaumburg was known as Hesse-Kassel, I use the simplified name of Schaumburg-Kassel to distinguish it from the original Schaumburg and from the neighboring Schaumburg-Lippe. I make the Hessian connection explicit by assigning the country to Hessian Germany.