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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.
1606: Formed: Peter Melander made HRE Knight, assumed the name "Holzappel" 1641: HRE Count; 1642: Acquired Lülsdorf as fief of Palatinate-Neuburg; 1643: Purchased Esterau and Isselbach from Nassau-Hadamar; Bench of Counts of Westphalia; 1656: Acquired Nassau-Schaumburg; 1707: To Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym; 1806: To Nassau
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 ...
1215: HRE Prince of the Empire 1460: Converted to a provostry 1803: Secularized to Württemberg: Elten: Abbacy n/a n/a 967: Abbey established 973: Imperial immediacy 1083: To Archbishopric of Bremen 1129: Imperial immediacy 1390: HRE Princess of the Empire 1802: To Prussia 1806: To Berg 1811: To France 1815: To Prussia: Eltz: Lordship n/a n/a ...
HRE Count of Bentinck and Aldenburg, Lord of the free Lordship of Knyphausen, Noble Lord of Varel: Lordship 1732: County n/a n/a 1343: First mentioned 1732: HRE Count 1738: Acquired Knyphausen and Varel 1810: To France 1814: To Oldenburg: Berchtesgaden Prince, Provost and Lord of Berchtesgaden: Abbey 1491: Provostry Bav EC 1108: Abbey established
Seating order of the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg (1663 engraving) Map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1400. An Imperial Estate (Latin: Status Imperii; German: Reichsstand, plural: Reichsstände) was an entity or an individual of the Holy Roman Empire with representation and the right to vote in the Imperial Diet (Reichstag).
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