| Name
|
Type
|
Imperial circle
|
Imperial diet
|
History
|
 Fagnolle
|
Lordship
1571: Barony
1770: County
|
Low Rhen
|
WE
|
Originally to Lords of Fagnolle
1218: To Rumigny
1333: To Enghien
1470: To Barbançon
1571: To Hénin-Liétard; HRE Baron
1598: To Melun
1634: To Ligne
1770: HRE Count
1787: Joined Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle
1789: Joined Bench of Counts of Westphalia
1792: To France
1803: Ligne compensated with Edelstetten
1815: To the Netherlands
1830: To Belgium
|
 Falkenstein
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1220: Partitioned from Bolanden
1255: Inherited territories of Hagen-Münzenberg
1271: Partitioned into Falkenstein-Münzenberg-Lich and Falkenstein-Münzenberg-Butzbach
|
| Falkenstein
|
County
|
Upp Rhen
|
n/a
|
1518: Title invested on Daun-Oberstein, renamed Daun-Falkenstein
1546: To Daun-Falkenstein-Oberstein
1628: Half to Löwenhaupt-Rasburg
1652: Daun half to Manderscheid-Kail
1686: Manderscheid half to Manderscheid-Kail-Blankenheim
1724: To Lorraine
1731: To Austria
1794: To France
|
| Falkenstein-Münzenberg-Butzbach
|
Lordship
1393: County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1271: Partitioned from Falkenstein
1393: HRE Count
1409: Extinct; to Falkenstein-Münzenberg-Lich
|
| Falkenstein-Münzenberg-Lich
|
Lordship
1398: County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1271: Partitioned from Falkenstein
1398: HRE Count
1418: Extinct; divided between Eppstein and Solms
|
 Feldkirch
|
Lordship
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
c. 1218: First mentioned; to Montfort
1258: To Montfort-Feldkirch
1375: To Austria
|
 Finstingen
|
Lordship
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
12th Century: First mentioned; to Malberg
1259: Partitioned into Finstingen-Schwanhals and Finstingen-Brackenkopf lines
1458: To Lorraine
|
 Flanders
|
County
|
Burg
|
n/a
|
862
1405: To the Duchy of Burgundy; fief of France (except 'Imperial Flanders', mainly Aalst)
1529: To the Spanish Netherlands
1714: To the Austrian Netherlands
1792: To France
1815: To the Netherlands
1830: To Belgium
|
 Fleckenstein
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
12th Century; Gau Counts in the Haguenau
1259: Partitioned into Fleckenstein-Hunsingen, Fleckenstein-Sulz and Fleckenstein-Bickenbach
|
| Fleckenstein-Bickenbach
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1259: Partitioned from Fleckenstein
1408: Partitioned into Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Rödern and Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Sulz
|
| Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Rödern
|
Lordship
1467: Barony
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1408: Partitioned from Fleckenstein-Bickenbach
1467: HRE Barony
1637: Extinct; to Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Sulz
|
| Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Sulz
|
Lordship
1467: Barony
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1408: Partitioned from Fleckenstein-Bickenbach
1467: HRE Barony
1658: Renamed to Fleckenstein-Windeck
|
| Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
|
Lordship
1463: Barony
|
Upp Rhin
|
WE
|
1375: Renamed from Fleckenstein-Hunsingen
1463: HRE Barony
1625: Sold Dagstuhl to Sötern
1644: Extinct
|
| Fleckenstein-Hunsingen
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1259: Partitioned from Fleckenstein
1375: Inherited 1/4 of Dagstuhl; renamed to Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
|
| Fleckenstein-Sulz
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1259: Partitioned from Fleckenstein
1351: Extinct; to Fleckenstein-Bickenbach
|
| Fleckenstein-Windeck
|
Barony
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1658: Renamed from Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Sulz
1720: Extinct; divided between Göllnitz, Gayling von Altheim and Ebersbach
|
 Franconia (Franken)
|
Stem Duchy
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
8th Century
1196: Discontinued
|
| Franconia (Franken)
|
Duchy
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1633: Created for Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in lands conquered in the Franconian Circle during the Thirty Years' War
1639: Abolished
|
 Frankenstein
|
Lordship
1670: Barony
|
Upp Rhen
|
RH
|
13th Century: Lords and HRE Barons of Frankenstein
1402: Imperial Immediacy
1662: sold to Hesse-Darmstadt
|
 Frankfurt
|
Imperial City
|
Upp Rhen
|
RH
|
1372: Free Imperial City
1806: To the Archbishopric of Regensburg
1810: To the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
1815: Free City
1866: To Prussia
|
 Franzenheim
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
12th Century?: Lords of Franzenheim
Fief of the cathedral of Trier
1794: To France
1815: To Prussia
|
 Frauenalb
|
Abbacy
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
12th Century
1193: Obtained secular territory
1802: Secularised to Baden
|
 Frauenchiemsee
Frauenwörth
|
Abbacy
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
782: Abbey established with imperial immediacy
1803: To Bavaria
|
| Fraumünster
|
853: Imperial Abbacy
Imperial Duchess-Abbey
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
853
1218: Imperial immediacy
1234: HRE Princess
1406: Secular nunnery
1524: Secularised by Zürich
|
 Fraunberg
|
HRE Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
12th Century
1145: First mentioned
1245: Inherited immediate Barony of Haag
1276: Partitioned into Fraunberg-Haag and Fraunberg-Fraunberg
|
| Fraunberg-Haag
|
HRE County
|
Bav
|
SC
|
1276: Partitioned from Fraunberg
1465: HRE Baron
1509: HRE Count
1566: Extinct; to Bavaria
|
 Freiburg im Breisgau
|
City
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1120
Originally a territory of Zähringen
1218: To Urach
1230: To Freiburg local counts
1368: To Austria
|
 Freiburg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1250: Partitioned from Urach
1272: Partitioned into itself and Badenweiler
1368: City of Freiburg to Austria
1444: To Baden-Hachberg-Sausenberg
1458: Extinct
|
 Freising
|
738: Bishopric
1220: Prince-Bishopric
|
Bav
|
EC
|
724: Founded as a monastery
738: Bishopric
1220: HRE Prince
1803: Secularized to Bavaria
|
 Freudenberg
|
962: Imperial Abbacy
|
|
|
1801: Annexed to France
;1815: Annexed to Prussia
|
 Freudenberg
|
1250: HRE Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
12th Century
Originally a territory of the Bishopric of Würzburg
1295: To Wertheim as fief of Würzburg
1407: To Wertheim-Breuberg as fief of Würzburg
1482: To Wertheim-Freudenberg as fief of Würzburg
1509: To Wertheim-Breuberg as fief of Würzburg
1556: Wertheim extinct; to Würzburg
1581: To Löwenstein-Wertheim as fief of Würzburg
1611: To Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg as fief of Würzburg
1803: To Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
1806: To Baden
|
 Fribourg
Freiburg im Üechtland
|
Imperial Free City
|
|
|
1157: Freiburg town founded
1157: To Zähringen
1218: To Kyburg
1277: To Austria
1452: To Savoy
1478: Free Imperial City
1481: Joined the Swiss Confederation
1648: Left the Empire
|
 Friedberg
|
County
1785: Princely County of Friedberg and Scheer
|
Swab
|
SC
|
13th Century
To local Co. of Friedberg
1282: To Austria
1452: To Waldburg-Sonnenberg
1477: To Waldburg-Scheer
1483: To Waldburg-Sonnenberg
1511: To Waldburg-Trauchburg
1566: To Waldburg-Friedburg-Scheer
1717: To Waldburg-Trauchburg, then Waldburg-Scheer
1764: To Waldburg-Trauchburg
1777: To Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach
1785: To Thurn and Taxis
1806: To Württemberg
|
 Friedberg
|
Imperial City
|
Upp Rhen
|
RH
|
1216
1252: Free Imperial City
1802: To Hesse-Darmstadt
|
 Frisia
Friesland
|
Freedom
Chiefdom
County
Seignory
|
Burg
|
n/a
|
1498: Lordship established in Burgundian Netherlands
1516: Spanish Netherlands
1566: Joined the Netherlands
|
 Friuli
|
Duchy
|
Aust
|
n/a
|
1077: To Patriarchate of Aquileia
1420: To Venice
1516: Friuli split, Austrian Friuli under Austrian rule
1805: To Italy
1815: To Lombardy-Venetia
|
 Fugger
von der Lilie
|
1530: HRE County of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1455
1507: Acquired Co. of Kirchberg and Lo. of Weißenhorn (non-immediate)
1511: HRE Noble
1530: HRE Count
1530: Raymond and Anton lines
1535: Raymond line partitioned into Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
1560: Anton line partitioned into Fugger-Nordendorf, Fugger-Kirchheim and Fugger-Wöllenburg
|
| Fugger-Adelshofen
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1690: Partitioned from Fugger-Zinnenberg-Adelshofen
1751: Extinct; to Fugger-Zinnenberg
1751: Partitioned from Fugger-Zinnenberg
1757: Extinct; to Fugger-Zinnenberg
|
| Fugger-Babenhausen
|
HRE County
1803: HRE Prince
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1598: Partitioned from Fugger-Wöllenburg
1693: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Boos
1757: Extinct; to Fugger-Boos
1759: Partitioned from Fugger-Boos
1803: HRE Prince
1806: To Bavaria
|
| Fugger-Boos
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1693: Partitioned from Fugger-Babenhausen
1759: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Babenhausen
1777: Extinct; to Fugger-Babenhausen
|
| Fugger-Dudenstein
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1677: Partitioned from Fugger-Wörth-Nordendorf
1739: Extinct; to Fugger-Nordendorf
|
| Fugger-Glött
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1598: Partitioned from Fugger-Kirchheim
1644: Partitioned into itself, Fugger-Wörth-Nordendorf, Fugger-Grunenbach and Fugger-Mickhausen
1672: Bonaventura to Fugger-Kirchheim
1711: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Stettenfels
1806: To Bavaria
|
| Fugger-Gmünd
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1579: Partitioned from Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
1654: Extinct; to Fugger-Kirchberg
|
| Fugger-Göttersdorf
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1575: Partitioned from Fugger-Pfirt
1627: Partitioned into itself, Fugger-Sulmentingen and Fugger-Zinnenberg-Adelshofen
|
| Fugger-Grunenbach
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1644: Partitioned from Fugger-Glött
1687: Extinct; to Fugger-Mickhausen
1701: Partitioned from Fugger-Mickhausen
17??: Extinct; to Fugger-Mickhausen
|
| Fugger-Kirchberg
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1626: Partitioned from Fugger-Weißenhorn
1690: Renamed to Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
|
| Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1535: Raymond line Counts in Kirchberg and Weißenhorn
1579: Partitioned into Fugger-Weißenhorn and Fugger-Gmünd
1690: Reunited by Fugger-Kirchberg
1692: Paritioned into itself and Fugger-Moorstetten
1806: To Bavaria
|
| Fugger-Kirchheim
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1560: Partitioned from Anton line
1598: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Glött
1672: Extinct; given to Bonaventura of Fugger-Glött
1780: Appanage line Fugger-Kirchheim-Hoheneck created
1806: To Bavaria
|
| Fugger-Kirchheim-Hoheneck
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1780: Appanage created from Fugger-Kirchheim
|
| Fugger-Mickhausen
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1644: Partitioned from Fugger-Glött
1701: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Grunenbach
1804: Extinct; to Fugger-Glött
|
| Fugger-Moorstetten
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1692: Partitioned from Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
1727: Extinct; to Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
|
| Fugger-Nordendorf
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1560: Partitioned from Anton line
1669: Extinct; to Fugger-Kirchheim
1677: Partitioned from Fugger-Wörth-Nordendorf
1806: To Bavaria
|
| Fugger-Pfirt
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1535: Raymond line Counts in Alsace and Bavaria
1575: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Göttersdorf
1633: Extinct; to Fugger-Göttersdorf
|
| Fugger-Stettenfels
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1711: Partitioned from Fugger-Glött
1735: Sold to Thurn and Taxis
1820: Extinct
|
| Fugger-Sulmentingen
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1627: Partitioned from Fugger-Göttersdorf
1739: Extinct; to Fugger-Göttersdorf
|
| Fugger-Weißenhorn
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1579: Partitioned from Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn
1626: Partitioned into Fugger-Kirchberg and itself
1690: Extinct; to Fugger-Kirchberg
|
| Fugger-Wöllenburg
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1560: Partitioned from Anton line
1598: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Babenhausen
1643: Extinct; to Fugger-Babenhausen
|
| Fugger-Wörth-Nordendorf
|
HRE County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1644: Partitioned from Fugger-Glött
1677: Partitioned into Fugger-Nordendorf and Fugger-Dudenstein
|
| Fugger-Zinnenberg
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1690: Partitioned from Fugger-Zinnenberg-Adelshofen
1751: Partitioned into itself and Fugger-Adelshofen
1757: Renamed to Fugger-Zinnenberg-Adelshofen
|
| Fugger-Zinnenberg-Adelshofen
|
HRE County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1627: Partitioned from Fugger-Göttersdorf
1690: Partitioned into Fugger-Adelshofen and Fugger-Zinnenberg
1757: Reunited by Fugger-Zinnenberg
1795: Extinct; to Bavaria
|
 Fulda
|
1156: HRE Prince-Abbacy
1752: Prince-Bishopric
|
Upp Rhen
|
EC
|
744
774: Imperial immediacy
1220: HRE Prince
1576-1602: Annexed to the Teutonic Order
1803: Secularized to Nassau-Orange-Fulda
1806: to France
1807: to Westphalia
1815: To Hesse-Cassel
1867: to Prussia
|
 Fürstenberg
Westphalian
|
1660: HRE Barons
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
14th Century
NOTE: Different from family of Princes of Furstenberg
|
Fürstenberg
Swabian
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1250: Partitioned from Urach
1283: Landgrave of Baar
1284: Partitioned into Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg and Fürstenberg-Haslach
1386: Reunited by Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
1408: Partitioned into Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg and Fürstenberg-Wolfach
1490: Reunited by Fürstenberg-Baar
1559: Partitioned into Fürstenberg-Blumberg and Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
1744: Reunited by Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
1806: To Baden, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Württemberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Baar
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1441: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
1490: Renamed to Fürstenberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Blumberg
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1559: Partitioned from Fürstenberg
1599: Partitioned into itself and Fürstenberg-Möhringen
1614: Partitioned into Fürstenberg-Messkirch and Fürstenberg-Stühlingen
|
| Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1617: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
1698: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
|
County
1716: HRE Prince
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1284: Partitioned from Fürstenberg
1386: Renamed to Fürstenberg
1408: Partitioned from Fürstenberg
1441: Partitioned into Fürstenberg-Baar and Fürstenberg-Geislingen
1704: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Stühlingen
1744: Renamed to Fürstenberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Geislingen
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1441: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
1483: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Baar
|
| Fürstenberg-Haslach
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1284: Partitioned from Fürstenberg
1386: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
|
County
1664: HRE Prince
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1559: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
1617: Partitioned into itself and Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen
1664: HRE Prince
1716: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Messkirch
|
County
1716: HRE Prince
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1614: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Blumberg
1716: HRE Prince
1744: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Möhringen
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1599: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Blumberg
1641: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Blumberg
|
| Fürstenberg-Stühlingen
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1614: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Blumberg
1704: Partitioned into Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg and Fürstenberg-Weitra
|
| Fürstenberg-Taikowitz
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1759: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Weitra
|
| Fürstenberg-Weitra
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1704: Partitioned from Fürstenberg-Stühlingen, containing lands within Austria centred around Tavíkovice and Weitra
1759: Partitioned between itself and Fürstenberg-Taikowitz
|
| Fürstenberg-Wolfach
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1408: Partitioned from Fürstenberg
1490: Extinct; to Fürstenberg-Baar
|
 Further Austria
|
Not a single polity
|
Aust
|
PR
|
1278
Included numerous counties, lordships, cities, etc., in south-western Germany obtained by the House of Habsburg and administered as a single entity, usually from the Tyrol
1805: Dispersed between Baden, Bavaria, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Württemberg
|
 Füssen
|
Abbacy
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1662
Part of the Bishopric of Augsburg
1803: To the Teutonic Order
1805: To Bavaria
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