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The members of the Diet complained and, after 1582, it became the rule that such new princes and counts would not of right have a seat at the Diet. Furthermore, in 1653 the Electoral Capitulation included strict rules on the process by which the Emperor could create new states of the Empire.
The "Imperial Circle" column shows to which circle (Reichskreis) the state belonged; the "Imperial Diet" column shows where the state was represented in the Imperial Diet or "Bench" (Reichstag). An explanation of these columns is shown in the main article for this topic, linked here.
For example, the estates of the Imperial Knights were formally mediatized in 1806, having de facto been seized by the great territorial states in 1803 in the so-called Rittersturm. "Secularization" was the abolition of the temporal power of an ecclesiastical ruler such as a bishop or an abbot and the annexation of the secularized territory to a ...
1550: HRE Baron 1630: HRE Count 1653: HRE Prince 1654: Bench of Secular Princes 1654: Acquired Silesia-Munsterberg and Frankestein 1663: Acquired Tengen 1664: HRE Princely Count 1791: Acquired Gottschee 1806: Tengen to Baden: Augsburg: Bishopric Swab EC 4th Century: Diocese established 8th Century: First mention of historical mention of diocese
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c. 1242: HRE Prince of the Empire 1802: To Bavaria: Bar (Bar-le-Duc; Barrois; Mass; Meuse) County 1354: Duchy Upp Rhen PR 959: To Lorraine (Upper Lotharingia) 1033: Partitioned from Lorraine 1301: Western half made fief of France 1354: Duke in France; HRE Margrave 1506: In personal union with Lorraine 1634-1659, 1670–1697, 1702–1714: To France