| Name
|
Type
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Imperial circle
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Imperial diet
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History
|
 Dagstuhl (Dachstuhl)
|
Lordship
|
Upp Rhen
|
n/a
|
802: To the Archbishopric of Trier
1270: To Dagstuhl as fief of Trier
1375: Extinct; to Fleckenstein, Kriechingen, Rollingen and Brücken
1616-25: Acquired by Sötern piecemeal
1662: To Oettingen-Baldern
1793: To France
1815: To Prussia
|
 Dannenberg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1153: First mentioned; branch of Salzwedel
1303: Sold to Lüneburg
1311: Extinct
|
 Danzig (Gdańsk)
|
Imperial City
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1263: Acquired autonomy
1301: To Denmark
1308: To the Teutonic Order
1457: To Poland with high autonomy
1793: To Prussia
1807: Free City of Danzig
1813: To Prussia
|
 Daun
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1075: First mentioned
1163: Extinct; former servant Richard assumed the name and rights
1250: Acquired part of Oberstein; renamed to Daun-Oberstein
|
| Daun-Falkenstein
|
County
|
Low Rhen
|
WE
|
1518: Renamed from Daun-Oberstein
1546: Partitioned into Daun-Falkenstein and Daun-Oberstein
1667: Sold Falkenstein to Lorraine
1682: Extinct; to Leiningen-Heidesheim
|
| Daun-Oberstein
|
Lordship
1518: County
|
Low Rhen
|
WE
|
1250: Renamed from Daun
1163: Extinct; former servant Richard assumed the name and rights
1250: Acquired part of Oberstein; renamed to Daun-Oberstein
1518: Acquired Falkenstein; HRE Count; Renamed to Daun-Falkenstein
1546: Partitioned from Daun-Falkenstein
1636: Extinct; to Daun-Falkenstein
1682: To Leiningen-Heidesheim
1766: To Limburg-Styrum-Styrum
1771: Idarbann to Baden
1794: To France
1815: To Prussia
1817: Attached to the Principality of Birkenfeld
|
 Dauphiné
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1016: Albon first mentioned
1030: Acquired half of Viennois
By 1293: Became known as the Dauphiné of Viennois
1349: Sold to France
1355: Extinct
|
 Degenberg
|
Lordship
1465: Barony
|
Bav
|
SC
|
1189: First mentioned
1303: Acquired Weißenstein
1438: Partitioned into Degenberg-Degenberg and Degenberg-Weißenstein
1454: Reunited by Degenberg-Degenberg
1465: HRE Baron
1487: Imperial immediacy
1511: Acquired Hals
1602: Extinct; succession disputed
1607: To Bavaria; Seat in Imperial Diet and Bavarian Circle revoked
|
| Degenberg-Degenberg
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1438: Partitioned from Degenberg
1454: Renamed to Degenberg
|
| Degenberg-Weißenstein
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1438: Partitioned from Degenberg
1454: Extinct; to Degenberg-Degenberg
|
 Delmenhorst
|
County
|
Low Rhen
|
WE
|
1254: First mentioned; to Oldenburg
1281: To Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
1414: To Archbishopric of Bremen
1438: To Oldenburg
1463: To Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
1464: To Oldenburg
1482: To Bishopric of Münster
1547: To Oldenburg
1577: To Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
1647: To Oldenburg
1667: To Denmark
1711: To Hanover
1731: To Denmark
1773: To Oldenburg
|
 Dhaun
|
Wildgraviate
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1258: Partitioned from the Wildgraviate
1350: Extinct; to Stein
|
 Diepholz
|
Barony
1524: County
|
Low Rhen
|
WE
|
1160: First mentioned; fief of Saxony
1285: Acquired Blankena
1291: Imperial immediacy
1441: Acquired Wagenfeld, Bokel and Struten
1482: Claimed title of Count
1510: Partially made fief of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1521: Remaining territory made fief of Hesse
1553: Claimed Bronkhorst
1585: Extinct; to Brunswick-Lüneburg and Hesse-Cassel
|
 Diessen (Dießen)
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
954: First mentioned; Gau Counts in Traungau
c. 1030: Partitioned into Wolfratshausen and itself
Advocate (Vogt) of Bishopric of Brixen
c. 1130: Acquired Plassenburg
1132: Renamed to Andechs
|
| Diessen (Dießen)
|
Abbacy
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
by 1130: Abbey established by Diessen on site of previously destroyed abbey
1132: To Andechs
1248: Made fief of Bavaria
1803: Abbey secularised and suppressed
|
 Diessenhofen
|
Imperial City
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1178: Made town of Kyburg
1264: To Habsburg
1415: Free Imperial City
1442: To Austria
1460: To the Old Swiss Confederacy as part of Thurgau
|
 Diez (Dietz)
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
11th century: Formed in the Niederlahngau from Conradine properties
12th century: Inherited territories in the Wetterau from Nürings
1208: Partitioned into Diez-Diez and Diez-Weilnau
1223: Reunited by Diez-Weilnau
1234: Partitioned into Diez-Diez, Diez-Birstein and Diez-Weilnau
1522: Divided between Eppstein-Königstein and Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
|
| Diez-Birstein
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1234: Partitioned from Diez
1322: Extinct; to Diez-Weilnau
1332: Half to Isenburg-Cleberg
1340: Isenburg half to Isenburg-Büdingen
1438: All to Isenburg-Büdingen
|
| Diez-Diez
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1208: Partitioned from Diez
1223: Extinct; to Diez-Weilnau
1234: Partitioned from Diez
1388: Extinct; to Nassau-Dillenburg
|
 Diez-Weilnau
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1208: Partitioned from Diez
1223: Renamed to Diez
1234: Partitioned from Diez
1454: Extinct; to Nassau-Dillenburg
|
 Dinkelsbühl
|
Imperial City
|
Swab
|
SW
|
1351: Free Imperial City
1802: To Bavaria
|
 Disentis
|
Abbacy
|
Swab
|
SP
|
8th Century: Abbey established
9th Century?: Imperial immediacy
11th Century: HRE Prince of the Empire
1395: Co-founded the Grey League
1648: Left the Empire as an ally of Switzerland
|
 Donauwörth
See: Schwäbisch Wörth
|
Imperial City
|
|
|
|
 Dornbirn
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
9th century
Originally to Bregenz
1171: To Tübingen
1180: To Montfort
1258: To Montfort-Feldkirch
1375: To Austria
1575: Much to Hohenems
1654: Rest sold to Hohenems; the townsfolk repurchased it for Austria
1771: To Austria
1805: To Bavaria
1814: To Austria
|
 Dortmund
|
Imperial City
|
Low Rhen
|
RH
|
1220: Free Imperial City
1803: To Nassau-Orange-Fulda
1806: To Berg
1813: To Prussia
|
 Drau (Pettau, Lower Carantanian March)
|
Margraviate
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Around 970-980
1147: Inherited by the Styrian Otakars
1254: To Hungary
1260: To Bohemia
1278: To Austria
By 1482: Integrated into the Duchy of Styria
|
 Drenthe
|
County
|
Burg
|
n/a
|
8th century: Originally a gau county
1024: To Bishopric of Utrecht
1528: To the Spanish Netherlands
1581: To United Provinces
1648: Left the Empire as part of the Netherlands
|
 Duisburg
|
Imperial City
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
10th century?: Free Imperial City
1290: Annexed to Cleves
1314: To Berg
1392: To Cleves
|
 Düren
|
Imperial City
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1000: Free Imperial City
1241: To Jülich
|
 Dyck
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
10th century
1394: Extinct; to Reifferscheid-Bedburg
1460: To Salm-Reifferscheid
1639: To Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
1794: To France
1815: To Prussia
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