| Name
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Type
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Imperial circle
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Imperial diet
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History
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 Oberbronn
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Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
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1232: First mentioned; fief of Lichtenberg
1352: Sold to Ochsenstein as fief of Lichtenberg
1382: Sold to Lichtenberg
1452: Sold to Lützelstein as fief of Lichtenberg
1480: To Zweibrücken-Bitsch
1551: To Leiningen-Westerburg-Leiningen
1622: To Leiningen-Westerburg-Oberbronn
1665: 2/3 to Hesse-Homburg, 1/3 to Sinclair
1727: Hessian portion to Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein
1732: Sinclair portion to Lewenhaupt
1764: Part of Hohenlohe portion to de Dietrich
1789: All to France
|
 Oberehnheim (Obernai)
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Imperial City
|
Upp Rhen
|
RH
|
1248: Free Imperial City
1679: To France
|
 Oberelsaß
See: Upper Alsace
|
Landgraviate
|
|
|
|
 Obermünster in Regensburg
|
Abbacy
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Bav
|
RP
|
1000s: Established with imperial immediacy
1315: HRE Princess of the Empire
1803: To the Archbishopric of Regensburg
1810: To Bavaria; suppressed
|
 Oberried
|
Provostry
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1237: Formed
1249: Abolished
1255: Reestablished
1496: Advocacy to Freiburg within Further Austria
1725: Advocacy to St Blaise's Abbey within Further Austria
1806: To Baden
|
 Obersalm
See: Salm in the Vosges
|
County
|
|
|
|
 Oberstein
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1075: First mentioned; to Stein
1250: Line Daun-Oberstein established
1364: Partitioned into Oberstein-Gundheim and Oberstein-Kredenburg
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| Oberstein-Gundheim
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1364: Partitioned from Oberstein
1683: Extinct; to the Palatinate
1699: To Greiffenclau
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| Oberstein-Kredenburg
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1364: Partitioned from Oberstein
1602: Extinct; to Speyer
|
 Obwalden
|
Imperial Valley
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
To Lenzburg
11th Century: Donated to Beromünster Abbey
?: To Murbach Abbey
1291: Sold to Habsburg; with Nidwalden became a founding member of the Swiss League
1324: Imperial immediacy
1648: Left Empire as member of Swiss Confederation
|
 Ochsenhausen
|
1391: Abbey
|
Swab
|
SP
|
1093: Priory of St. Blaise's Abbey
1391: Independent abbey
1495: Imperial immediacy
1803: To Schaesberg-Retersbeck (Tannheim), Sinzendorf (Winterrieden) and Metternich-Winneburg and Beilstein (remainder)
1806: All to Württemberg
|
 Ochsenstein
|
Lordship
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1186: First mentioned; branch of Geroldseck
1391: Quarter of Ochsenstein sold to the Palatinate
1485: Extinct; to Zweibrücken-Bitsch
|
 Odenheim and Bruchsal
|
Abbey
1503: Provostry
|
Upp Rhen
|
RP
|
1110-8
1161: Imperial immediacy
1496: HRE Lord
1503: Converted to provostry
1507: Relocated to Bruchsal
1803: To Baden
|
 Oettingen (Öttingen)
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1147: First mentioned; related to the House of Hohenstaufen
1363: Acquired Spiegelberg
1418: Partitioned into Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein
|
| Oettingen-Baldern
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1623: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein
1798: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein
|
| Oettingen-Flochberg
|
County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1442: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein
1522: Partitioned into itself and Oettingen-Wallerstein
1548: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein
|
| Oettingen-Oettingen
|
County
1674: Principality
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1418: Partitioned from Oettingen
1440: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein
1442: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein
1674: HRE Prince
1731: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein
|
| Oettingen-Spielberg
|
County
1734: Principality
|
Swab
|
SC / PR
|
1623: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein
1734: HRE Prince
1803: Bench of Princes
1806: To Bavaria
1810: Parts to Württemberg
|
| Oettingen-Wallerstein
|
County
1774: Principality
|
Swab
|
SC / PR
|
1418: Partitioned from Oettingen
1442: Partitioned into Oettingen-Oettingen, itself and Oettingen-Flochberg
1486: Extinct; divided between Oettingen-Flochberg and Oettingen-Oettingen
1522: Partitioned from Oettingen-Flochberg
1549: Extinct; to Frederick V of Oettingen-Oettingen by marriage, who assumed the name Oettingen-Wallerstein
1623: Partitioned into Oettingen-Spielberg, itself and Oettingen-Baldern
1774: HRE Prince
1803: Bench of Princes
1806: To Bavaria
1810: Parts to Württemberg
|
 Offenburg
|
Imperial City
|
Swab
|
SW
|
before 1240: Imperial Free City
1803: To Baden
|
 Olbrück
|
Lordship
|
Low Rhen
|
WE
|
1190: Purchased by Wied from the Archbishopric of Cologne
1244: Wied extinct; Olbrück was divided and shared ultimately with a dozen families, often in dispute with each other
1555: All to Waldbott von Bassenheim
1788: Along with Pirmont was used to give access to the Westphalian counts
1794: To France
1815: To Prussia
|
 Oldenburg
Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Heir in Norway, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarshes & Oldenburg, Prince of Lübeck and Birkenfeld, Lord of Jever and Kniphausen
|
County
1777: Duchy
1815: Grand Duchy
|
Low Rhen
|
PR
|
1108: First mentioned; fief of Saxony
1143: Partitioned into Wildeshausen and itself
1181: Imperial immediacy
c. 1278: Partitioned into itself and Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
1463: Partitioned into itself and Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
1577: Partitioned into itself and Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
1667: Extinct; to Denmark
1773: To Paul of Russia; then to Frederick Augustus of Lübeck
1777: HRE Duke
1810: To France
1814: Restored
1815: Grand Duke
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| Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
|
County
|
Low Rhen
|
PR
|
c. 1278: Partitioned from Oldenburg
1447: Extinct; to Oldenburg
1463: Partitioned from Oldenburg
1482: To Oldenburg
1483: To the Bishopric of Münster
1484: Extinct
1547: To Oldenburg
1577: Partitioned from Oldenburg
1647: Extinct; to Oldenburg
|
 Orange
|
County
1173: Principality
|
none
|
none
|
11th century: Independence from Provence
1121: Extinct in male line; to Aumelas by marriage
1173: Extinct; to Baux by marriage; HRE Prince
1193: To Baux-Orange
1289: Acquired Baux
1417: Extinct; to Chalon-Arlay
1544: To William of Nassau-Dillenburg, who took the name Orange-Nassau
1702: To France, who enfeoffed Francis Louis of Conti
1713: To France, attached to the Dauphiné
|
 Orange-Nassau
|
Principality
|
none
|
none
|
1544: Created when William of Nassau-Dillenburg inherited Orange
1702: Extinct; succession dispute between Nassau-Dietz who took the name Orange-Nassau, and Prussia. Orange itself seized by France
1739: Acquired Nassau-Hadamar and Nassau-Dillenburg
1743: Acquired Nassau-Siegen
1747: Acquired the Netherlands
1795: Left bank territory to France
1806: United with Nassau-Orange-Fulda; then dispersed between various states
1815: King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg
|
 Orlamünde
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1032-1040: Mentioned, to counts of Orlamünde
By 1060: Extinct; to Weimar
1062: To Weimar-Orlamünde
|
 Orsini and Rosenberg
Prince of Orsini and Rosenberg, Baron of Lerchenau and Grafenstein
|
1681: HRE Count (Personalist)
1790: HRE Prince (Personalist)
|
n/a
|
FR
|
1681: Formed
13th century: First mentioned
1681: Granted personalist vote in the Bench of Franconian Counts
1684: Adopted style of Orsini-Rosenberg
|
 Ortenau (Mortenau)
|
Landvogtei
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
763: First mentioned; gau county of the Carolingian Empire
1007: To the Bishopric of Bamberg
?: To Zähringen
1218: Seized by the Emperor
1261: To Geroldseck
The Ortenau disintegrated soon after, though the title was held variously by Bach, Fürstenberg, Mörsperg, Ochsenstein and Oettingen, amongst others
1803: Much of the Ortenau to Breisgau-Modena and Baden
1819: All to Baden
|
 Ortenburg in Carinthia
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1072: First mentioned; possibly related to Grögling-Hirschberg
1306: Imperial immediacy
1418: Extinct; to Celje
1456: Extinct; to Austria
|
 Ortenburg (Ortenberg)
Count of Ortenburg, Count and Lord of Tambach
|
County
|
Bav
|
WT
|
1135: Partitioned from Carinthia in the former lands of Vohburg-Passau
1145: Acquired advocacies around Passau
1158: Acquired much of Vornbach
1163: Acquired Murach
1173: Acquired Kraiburg and Marquartstein
1188: Acquired Sulzbach; partitioned into Ortenburg-Kraiburg and Ortenburg-Ortenburg
1272: Remaining territories held by Ortenburg-Ortenburg; henceforth known as Ortenburg
1319: Acquired Wildenegg
1381: Side line Ortenburg-Dorfbach founded
1395: Partitioned into Ortenburg-Neuortenburg and Ortenburg-Altortenburg
1446: Reunited by Ortenburg-Neuortenburg
1517: Acquired Mattighofen
1805: To Bavaria; received in exchange Tambach
1806: Tambach to Bavaria
|
| Ortenburg-Altortenburg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1395: Partitioned from Ortenburg
1416: Acquired Niederaltaich Abbey
1446: Extinct; to Ortenburg-Neuortenburg
|
| Ortenburg-Dorfbach
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1381: Founded upon marriage of Alrams I with Barbara von Rottau; fief of Ortenburg
1431: Imperial immediacy
1461: Extinct; to Ortenburg-Neuortenburg
1652: Sold to Peckenzell
|
| Ortenburg-Kraiburg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1188: Partitioned from Ortenburg
1200: Acquired Rotter
1208: Acquired County Palatine of Bavaria and Neuburg
1217: Acquired Griesbach-Waxenberg
1239: Lost Ramsau and territories in Brixen to Regensburg
1248: Extinct in male line; lost County Palatine of Bavaria
1256: To Werdenberg-Sargans by marriage
1259: Sold to Lower Bavaria
|
| Ortenburg-Murach
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1238: Partitioned from Ortenburg-Ortenburg
1268: Made fief of Upper Bavaria
1272: Sold to Upper Bavaria
1285: Extinct
|
| Ortenburg-Neuortenburg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1395: Partitioned from Ortenburg
1445: Acquired Saldenburg
1446: Renamed to Ortenburg
|
| Ortenburg-Ortenburg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1188: Partitioned from Ortenburg
1217: Acquired Neustadt
1229: Imperial immediacy
1238: Partitioned into itself and Ortenburg-Murach
1257: Extinct; to Gebhard of Ortenburg-Murach
1272: Renamed to Ortenburg
|
 Osnabrück
|
Bishopric
|
Low Rhen
|
EC
|
783: Fief of Saxony
1180: Fief of Tecklenburg
1226: HRE Prince of the Empire
1236: Imperial immediacy
After 1648: Osnabrück alternately ruled by a Protestant Administrator and Catholic Prince-Bishop
1803: To Hanover
1806: To Prussia
1807: To Westphalia
1810: To France
1815: To Hanover
|
 Osterberg
|
Lordship
1712: Barony
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1225: First mentioned; to Elchingen Abbey
by 1448: Sold to Ochsenhausen Abbey
1455: Sold to Rechberg-Hohenrechberg
1460: To Rechberg-Kronburg
1577: To Rechberg-Osterberg
1679: Sold to Meyer von Röfingen auf Bühl who assumed the name Osterberg
1712: HRE Barony
1806: To Bavaria
|
Öttingen
See: Oettingen
|
|
|
|
|
 Ottobeuren
|
Abbacy
|
Swab
|
SP
|
764: Formed
1299: Imperial immediacy
1624: Fief of the Bishopric of Augsburg
1710: Imperial immediacy
1802: To Bavaria
|
 Overijssel
|
Lordship
|
Burg
|
n/a
|
11th Century: Territory nominally ceded to the Bishopric of Utrecht as the Oversticht
1336: To Guelders
1347: To the Bishopric of Utrecht
1528: To the Spanish Netherlands; Burgundian Circle
1580: To the Netherlands
1795: To the Batavian Republic
1810: To France
1815: To the Netherlands
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