Lordship/County of Steinfurt

 

• Simplified country name: Steinfurt
• Nation: Bentheimian Germany
• Chronology
  • ~1129: Created as a lordship
  • 1396: Recognized the Bishopric of Münster as its feudal lord
  • 1421: Acquired by the Götterswyk family, which combined it in personal union with Bentheim and adopted that name
  • 1454: Independence restored upon the partition of Bentheim & Steinfurt
  • 1495: Promoted to a county
  • 1530: Reunified in personal union with Bentheim/beginning of database
  • 1693: Independence restored again upon the repartition of Bentheim & Steinfurt
  • 1803: Occupied by Napoleonic France/end of database
• Personal unions
  • as primary
    • County of Bentheim & Steinfurt (1530-1693)