List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (H)

This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter H:

Name	Type	Circle	Bench	Formed	Notes
Haag Haag in Oberbayern Haag in Oberbayern is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany....	HRE County				1500: Bavarian Circle 1567: Line died out; to Dukes of Bavaria
Habsburg Habsburg The House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...	County			1040	1305: Annexed to Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... , gave its name to the archducal dynasty which became the de facto imperial dynasty 1414: Annexed to Bern
Habsburg-Lauffenburg Laufenburg, Switzerland Laufenburg is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is the seat of the district of the same name. On 1 January 2010 the municipality Sulz merged into Laufenburg.... (Habsburg-Laufenburg)	County			1239: Partitioned from Habsburg Habsburg The House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...	Partitioned several times 1282-1408: Acquired Landgraviate of Klettgau 1408: Partitions all annexed to Sulz Sulz Sulz is the name of a number of places in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Ukraine:Soulce in the canton of Jura, Switzerland was formerly known as SulzSulz place in the Steiermark, Austria*Sulz in the Steiermark, Austria...
Hadeln	"Farmer Republic" under loose overlordship of Saxe-Lauenburg			earliest records from mid-12th c.	Before 1180: Part of older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein... , till emperor deposed Henry the Lion 1180: To sharply belittled younger Saxony 1260: Overlordship by Saxe-Lauenburg 1305-1401: Joint overlordship by both dynastic Bergedorf-Mölln and Ratzeburg-Lauenburg lines of Saxe-Lauenburg 1330-?: By way of pawn to Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... 1402-1481: By way of pawn to Hamburg 1481: Redeemed by Saxe-Lauenburg 1689-1731: Imperial custody for dynasty exstinct 1731: Enfeoffed to Hanover Electorate of Hanover The Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg was the ninth Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation... 1803-1813: Conquests/annexations in the Napoleonic Wars Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to... 1813: Returned to Hanover (kingdom in 1814) 1852: Traditional autonomy cancelled 1866: Annexed to Prussia Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire... 1884: Distinct Estates dissolved
Haguenau Haguenau -Economy:The town has a well balanced economy. Centuries of troubled history in the buffer lands between France and Germany have bequeathed to Haguenau a rich historical and cultural heritage which supports a lively tourist trade. There is also a thriving light manufacturing sector centred on the... (Hagenau)	Imperial Free City	Upp Rhen		1260	1648: Annexed to France
Hagenau	"Landvogtei"
Hainaut County of Hainaut The County of Hainaut was a historical region in the Low Countries with its capital at Mons . In English sources it is often given the archaic spelling Hainault....	County (unification of countship of Bergen, margraviate of Valenciennes Valenciennes Valenciennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region had seen a steady decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded... and the southern countship of the Brabant shire)	Burg	PR	1071	1299: United with the County of Holland 1436: To Burgundy 1512: Burgundian Circle
Hainburg	County			1240: Partitioned from Regenstein	1368: Re-annexed by Regenstein 1599: Annexed to the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt
Halberstadt Bishopric of Halberstadt The Bishopric of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese from 804 until 1648 and an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages...	Bishopric 1180: HRE Prince-Bishopric	Low Sax	EC	996: diocese est. 1180: Partitioned from the older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein...	Before 1180: Part of older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein... , till emperor deposed Henry the Lion 1180: Gained Imperial immediacy at the carve-up of the older Duchy of Saxony 1648: Secularized as a principality to Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
Halberstadt Halberstadt Halberstadt is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the district of Harz. It is located on the German Half-Timbered House Road and the Magdeburg–Thale railway....	Principality	Low Sax		1648: Secularized from Bp. of Halberstadt Halberstadt Halberstadt is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the district of Harz. It is located on the German Half-Timbered House Road and the Magdeburg–Thale railway....	From 1648 to 1918, the "Princes of Halberstadt" were the Electors of Brandenburg, the Kings of Prussia and finally the Emperors of Germany, except when Halberstadt was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813.
Haldenstein Haldenstein Haldenstein is a municipality in the district of Landquart in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.-History:Haldenstein is first mentioned in 1149 as Lanze. In 1370 it was mentioned as Lentz inferior.-Geography:...	Barony
Hall Schwäbisch Hall Schwäbisch Hall is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and capital of the district of Schwäbisch Hall. The town is located in the valley of the river Kocher in the north-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg....
Hallermund	County	Low Rhen		c1163	1398: Annexed to Corvey 1408: Annexed to Minden Minden Minden is a town of about 83,000 inhabitants in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town extends along both sides of the river Weser. It is the capital of the Kreis of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detmold. Minden is the historic political centre of the... 1436: Annexed to Brunswick Brunswick-Lüneburg The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg , or more properly Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg, was an historical ducal state from the late Middle Ages until the late Early Modern era within the North-Western domains of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, in what is now northern Germany... 1707: Annexed to Platen-Hallermund
Hals	1280: County			12th century	1443: Annexed to Leuchtenberg Leuchtenberg Leuchtenberg is a municipality in the district of Neustadt in Bavaria in Germany, essentially a suburb of nearby Weiden in der Oberpfalz, and a historical region in Old Germany governed by the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg.... 1486: Sold to Aichberg 1511: Inherited by Degenberg 1517: Sold to Bavaria To Cronenstein To Sinzendorf 1715: To Bavaria
Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...	Imperial City	Low Sax	RH	1189	1241: Founding member of the Hansa 1510: Imperial city 1810: Annexed to France 1815: Free City
Hanau Hanau Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main. Its station is a major railway junction.- Geography :... Count of Hanau, Rhineck and Zweibrücken, Lord of Münzenberg, Lichtenberg and Ochsenhausen	1429: HRE County 1803: HRE Principality			1178	1243: 1st mention of Hanau castle 1255: Acquired Lordship of Munzenberg 1451: Division into Hanau-Münzenberg and Hanau-Lichtenberg 1458: Division into Hanau-Babenhausen, Hanau-Münzenberg and Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480:Acquired Lordship of Lichtenberg Reunited 1736: Passed to Hesse-Kassel Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the... 1803: To France 1810: Grand Duchy of Frankfurt 1813: To Hesse-Kassel 1866: To Prussia
Hanau-Babenhausen Babenhausen Babenhausen is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse, Germany.-Geography:It is situated on the river Gersprenz, 25 km southeast of Frankfurt, and 14 km west of Aschaffenburg. South of its general borders, the mountain range of the Odenwald is situated about 15 km away...	1429: County			1451: Partitioned from Hanau Hanau Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main. Its station is a major railway junction.- Geography :...	1481: Became Hanau-Lichtenberg
Hanau-Lichtenberg Lichtenberg Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.-Overview:...	1429: County 1696: HRE Principality	Upp Rhen		1481: Superseded Hanau-Babenhausen	1642: Inherited extinct line of Hanau-Münzenberg 1736: Line extinct; divided between Hesse-Darmstadt Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse between the four sons of Philip I, the last Landgrave of Hesse.... and Mainz Mainz Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire... 1785: United to Hesse-Kassel
Hanau-Münzenberg Münzenberg Münzenberg is a town in the Wetteraukreis district in Hesse, Germany. It is located 13 km north of Friedberg, and 16 km southeast of Gießen. The castle of Münzenberg is in the town....	1429: County				1642: Male line extinct; united with Hanau-Lichtenberg 1736: Inherited by Hesse-Darmstadt
Hanover Electorate of Hanover The Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg was the ninth Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation...	Duchy 1692: HRE Prince-Elector	Low Sax	EL	1636
Harburg Harburg, Bavaria Harburg is a town on Bavaria's romantic road with one of the most impressive remaining medieval castles in Germany. It is in the Donau-Ries district.The castle was first mentioned in 1150 and has never been seriously damaged by war...	Principality
Hardegg Hardegg Hardegg is a town in the district of Hollabrunn in Lower Austria, Austria. It is situated in the Waldviertel region on the river Thaya, directly at the border with the Czech Republic...	1383: HRE County				1188: 1st mention of Counts of Hardegg 1260: To Counts of Plain 1273-1483: To Counts of Maidburg 1495: Sold to Barons and Counts of Pruschenk by Habsburgs Still exists in Seefeld and Stetteldorf lines Acquired Lordships of Kadolz, Seefeld and Stetteldorf
Harrach Harrach The Harrach family is a Bohemian and Austro-German noble family. The Grafs von Harrach were among the most prominent families in the Habsburg Empire.-History:... Count of Harrach in Rohrau and Thannhausen, etc.	1628: HRE County (Personalist)	n/a	SW	1628	Acquired non-immediate County of Rohrau Acquired non-immediate County of Thannhausen
Harmersbach Zell am Harmersbach Zell am Harmersbach is a small historic city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies in the Ortenaukreis, between the Black Forest and the Rhine.-History:...	Imperial Valley
Hartelstein	Lordship			1460: Partitioned from Saffig Saffig Saffig is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.-The emblem:The organ pipes and the ear show St. Cäcilia, the patron saint of the Catholic church of Saffig. The lava dome shows the territory of vulcanos, where Saffig is.-History:The first reference...	1477: Annexed to Saffig-Olbrück
Hatzfeld Hatzfeld Hatzfeld is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.-Location:Hatzfeld lies in west Hesse 25 km northwest of Marburg and north of the Sackpfeife in the valley of the Eder.-Neighbouring communities:... HRE Prince of Hatzfeld-Gleichen-Trachenberg, Baron of Wildenburg, Lord of Crottorf, Schönstein, Kranichfeld, Blankenhain, etc.	Lordship 1635: HRE County 1748: HRE Principality	Upp Sax			1418: Line extinct; territory passed to Hatzfeld by female succession 1639: Acquired Gleichen 1640: Imperial estate; immediate HRE Counts of Gleichen 1741: non-immediate Princes of Trachenberg in Prussia 1806: To Grand Duchy of Berg 1815: To Prussia
Hauenstein Hauenstein Hauenstein is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate forest, approximately 20 km east of Pirmasens, and 20 km west of Landau....	County
Hausen Hausen, Upper Franconia Hausen is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany....	Lordship	??			1500: Franconian Circle
Havelberg Bishopric of Havelberg The Bishopric of Havelberg was a Roman Catholic diocese founded by King Otto I, King of the Germans, in 946. The diocese was suffragan to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Its most famous bishop was Anselm of Havelberg. Its seat was in Havelberg in the Northern March and it roughly covered the...	Bishopric
Heggbach Heggbach Abbey Heggbach Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery in Heggbach, now part of the municipality of Maselheim in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- History :...	Abbacy	Swab			1793: Council of Princes
Heideck Heideck Heideck is a town with full legal town charter in the district of Roth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg and at the same time in the Franconian Lake District-Notable persons:... (Heydeck)	HRE Lordship				Acquired Bretzenheim 1471: To Bavaria
Heilbronn Heilbronn Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....	Imperial Free City	Swab	SW	1350	1803: Mediatized
Heiligenberg Heiligenberg Heiligenberg is a municipality and a village in the Bodensee district in Baden-Württemberg, about seven kilometres north of Salem, in Germany.-Location and climate:...	County	Swab
Heiligkreuzthal	Abbacy
Heinsberg Heinsberg Heinsberg is the capital of the district Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands, on the river Wurm, approx...	County			1085	1479: Annexed to Jülich Jülich Jülich is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Jülich is well known as location of a world-famous research centre, the Forschungszentrum Jülich and as shortwave transmission site of Deutsche Welle...
Helffenstein House of Helfenstein The House of Helfenstein was a German noble family during the High and Late Middle Ages. The family was named after the family castle, Castle Helfenstein, located above Geislingen an der Steige in the Swabian Alb region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany... (Helfenstein)	1351: HRE County			1113	1100: Helfenstein castle Ruine Helfenstein Helfenstein Castle represents the remnants of the fortified castle Helfenstein of the counts of Helfenstein located above the city of Geislingen an der Steige, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.-History:... built 1200: Marriage of heiress of Counts of Helfenstein with Count of Spitzenberg and Sigmaringen 1226: Union of Counties of Spitzenberg and Helfenstein 1258: Inherited, through female succession, some territories of Counts of Dillingen Wiesenstein line inherited County of Geislingen 1356: Division into Blaubeuren (extinct 1517) and Wiesenstein (extinct 1627)lines 1383: Geislingen and Helfenstein castle pawned to Imperial City of Ulm 1396: Wiesenstein line sold (paid off debts of 123,439 guldens) Helfenstein castle, lands in Ulm and Advocacy of Elchingen Abbey to Ulm 1447: Sold Lordship of Blaubeuren to Wurttemberg 1448: Sold Lordship of Heidenheim to Wurttemberg 1450-1457: Wurttemberg had temporary possession of Wiesenstein 1450-1504: Electorate of Bavaria had temporary possession of Lordship of Heidenheim Heidenheim to Wurttemberg 1626: Male line of Helfensstein died out 1627: Blaubeuren passed to Wurttemberg; 1/3 of Wiesenstein passed to Furstenberg and 2/3 to Electorate of Bavaria 1643: To Bavaria and Wurttemberg
Helmarshausen Helmarshausen Helmarshausen is a borough of the city of Bad Karlshafen in Hesse, central Germany. It was formerly the location of Helmarshausen Abbey, an Imperial abbey of the Holy Roman Empire....	RA
Henneberg House of Henneberg -Origins:The distant origins of this family are speculative yet seem to originate in the Rhine Valley, east of modern-day France. Charibert, a nobleman in Neustria is the earliest recorded ancestor of the family, dating before 636. Five generations pass between Charibert and the next descendant...	County 1471: HRE Princely Count of Henneberg	Franc	PR	1037	1096: 1st mention of Henneberg Division into Henneberg, Botenlauben and Strauf 1274: Division into Henneberg-Schleusingen, Henneberg-Aschach-Romhild and Henneberg-Hartenberg 1310: Henneberg-Schleusingen raised to HRE Prince Partitions annexed to Mansfeld-Bornstedt, Meißen, Saxony Saxony The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states.... and Stolberg-Stolberg Stolberg-Stolberg Stolberg-Stolberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire located in the southern Harz region. Its capital was the town of Stolberg, now in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.... 1500: Franconian Circle 1554: Pact of mutual succession between Dukes of Saxony and Counts of Henneberg 1582: HRE Council of Princes 1583: Counts of Henneberg died out
Herford Abbey Herford Abbey Herford Abbey was the oldest women's religious house in the Duchy of Saxony. It was founded as a house of secular canonesses in 789, initially in Müdehorst by a nobleman called Waltger, who moved it in about 800 onto the lands of his estate Herivurth which stood at the crossing of a number of...	823: Imperial Abbey 1523: Princess-Abbess	Low Rhen		c800	819: Benedictine Abbey of Herford founded by Emperor Louis the Pious 1793: Council of Princes 1803: Secularized to Prussia Prussia Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
Herford Herford Herford is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the lowlands between the hill chains of the Wiehen Hills and the Teutoburg Forest. It is the capital of the district of Herford.- Geographic location :...	1631: Free City	Low Rhen	RH		1652: Annexed to Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
Héricourt Héricourt, Haute-Saône Héricourt is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France.-References:*...	Lordship
Herrenzimmern	Lordship 1530: County			1495: Partitioned from Zimmern Zimmern Zimmern may refer to places in Germany:Zimmern, Thuringia, in the Saale-Holzland districtZimmern ob Rottweil, in Baden-WürttembergZimmern unter der Burg, in Baden-WürttembergGroß-Zimmern, in Hesse-Surname:...	1570: Annexed to Mötzkirch
Herrstein Herrstein Herrstein is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...	Lordship
Hersfeld Hersfeld Abbey Hersfeld Abbey was an important Benedictine imperial abbey in the town of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse , Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Geisa, Haune and Fulda.-History:...	HRE Abbey			1232	1432: To Hesse Hesse Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state... 1606: Under administration by Hesse-Kassel 1648: Secularized to Hesse-Kassel
Hesse Landgraviate of Hesse The Landgraviate of Hesse was a Landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed as a unity from 1264 to 1567, when it was divided between the sons of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.-History:... HRE Prince-Elector, Sovereign Landgrave of Hesse, Grand Duke of Fulda, Prince of Hersfeld, Hanau, Fritzlar & Isenburg, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Dietz, Ziegenhain, Nidda, Schaumburg	1265: Landgraviate 1292: HRE Prince 1500: Duchy 1806: Grand Duchy 1866: Electorate	Upp Rhen	PR	1247 Split off from Thuringia Thuringia The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....	Acquired Giessen AcquiredZiegenhain Acquired Nidda Acquired Katzenelnbogen 1432: Overlordship over Abbey of Hersfeld 1567: Partitioned into Hesse-Darmstadt Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse between the four sons of Philip I, the last Landgrave of Hesse.... , Hesse-Kassel Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the... (or Hesse-Cassel), Hesse-Marburg Hesse-Marburg The Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 and 1500, and between 1567 and 1604/1650.... , and Hesse-Rheinfels Hesse-Rheinfels Hesse-Rheinfels was created as a cadet line of Hesse for Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels , landgrave from 1567 until 1583, and as a cadet line of Hesse-Kassel for Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels , landgrave from 1627 until 1658.-First creation:Philip was the third son of Philip the... 1582: HRE Council of Princes
Hesse-Darmstadt Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse between the four sons of Philip I, the last Landgrave of Hesse.... Grand Duke of Hesse and of the Rhine	Landgraviate 1806: Grand Duchy	Upp Rhen	PR	1567: Created on partition of Hesse Landgraviate of Hesse The Landgraviate of Hesse was a Landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed as a unity from 1264 to 1567, when it was divided between the sons of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.-History:...	1582: HRE Council of Princes 1736: Inherited Hanau-Lichtenberg 1806: Joined Confederation of the Rhine
Hesse-Homburg Hesse-Homburg Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668.... Landgrave of Hesse, Prince of Hersfeld, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Dietz, Ziegenhain, Nidda, Schaumburg, Isenburg & Büdingen				1622: Division from Hesse-Darmstadt	1650: Divided into Hesse-Homburg and Hesse-Homburg-Bingenheim 1668: Becomes independent of Hesse-Darmstadt 1681: Homburg and Bingenheim reunited 1806: Hesse-Homburg annexed to Hesse-Darmstadt 1815: Hesse-Homburg reinstated 1866: To Hesse-Darmstadt 1866: To Prussia
Hesse-Kassel Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the... (or Hesse-Cassel) Prince-Elector of Hesse, Grand Duke of Fulda, Prince of Hersfeld, Hanau, Fritzlar & Isenburg, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Dietz, Ziegenhain, Nidda & Schaumburg	1265: Landgraviate 1803: Electorate	Upp Rhen	PR	1567: Created on partition of Hesse Hesse Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...	1582: HRE Council of Princes 1736: Inherited Hanau-Münzenberg 1815: Acquired Prince-Bishopric of Fulda 1866: To Prussia
Hesse-Marburg Hesse-Marburg The Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 and 1500, and between 1567 and 1604/1650....	1265: Landgraviate	Upp Rhen	PR	1567: Created on partition of Hesse Hesse Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...	1582: HRE Council of Princes 1604: Merged into Hesse-Kassel Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the...
Hesse-Rheinfels Hesse-Rheinfels Hesse-Rheinfels was created as a cadet line of Hesse for Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels , landgrave from 1567 until 1583, and as a cadet line of Hesse-Kassel for Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels , landgrave from 1627 until 1658.-First creation:Philip was the third son of Philip the...	1265: Landgraviate	Upp Rhen	PR	1567: Created on partition of Hesse Hesse Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...	1582: HRE Council of Princes 1583: Territory partitioned between Hesse-Darmstadt Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse between the four sons of Philip I, the last Landgrave of Hesse.... , Hesse-Marburg Hesse-Marburg The Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 and 1500, and between 1567 and 1604/1650.... , and Hesse-Rheinfels Hesse-Rheinfels Hesse-Rheinfels was created as a cadet line of Hesse for Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels , landgrave from 1567 until 1583, and as a cadet line of Hesse-Kassel for Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels , landgrave from 1627 until 1658.-First creation:Philip was the third son of Philip the...
Hildesheim Bishopric of Hildesheim The Diocese of Hildesheim is a diocese or ecclesiastical territory of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Germany. Founded in 815 as a missionary diocese by King Louis the Pious, his son Louis the German appointed the famous former archbishop of Rheims, Ebbo, as bishop...	815: Bishopric c1221: Prince-Bishopric	Low Sax	EC	888: diocese est. 1180: Partitioned from the older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein...	Before 1180: Part of older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein... , till emperor deposed the Welf Henry the Lion 1180: Stayed under influence of the Welf allodial estates c1221: Gained Imperial immediacy 1793: Council of Princes 1802: Annexed to Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam... 1803: Secularized to Prussia
Hildesheim Hildesheim Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...	Free City	Low Sax	EC	1300	1803: Annexed to Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
Hillesheim Hillesheim Hillesheim is the third largest town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, to which it also belongs.- Location :... (Hillesheimb) HRE Count of Hillesheim, (?)Lord of Reipoltskirchen	Barony 1712: HRE County				1722: immediate Lords of Reipoltskirchen
Höchberg Höchberg Höchberg is a municipality in the district of Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany....	Margraviate
Hochstaden	County			1144	1261: Annexed to Abp. of Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
Hohenberg Hohenberg an der Eger Hohenberg an der Eger is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Eger, on the border with the Czech Republic, 11 km west of Cheb, and 14 km northeast of Marktredwitz. It was home to Hutschenreuther ceramic....	HRE County				1280/1287: Acquired Lordship of Altensteig 1381: To Austria (Leopoldine line) Acquired Lordships of Wildberg, Nagold, Altensteig and Horb Purchased Lordship of Oberndorf 1253: Division into Hohenberg-Rottenburg and Hohenberg-Nagold Division of Hohenberg-Nagold into Hohenberg-Nagold and Hohenberg-Wildberg
Hohenberg-Altensteig Altensteig Altensteig is a town in the district of Calw, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the eastern Black Forest, 18 km southwest of Calw, and 19 km northeast of Freudenstadt.- Subdivisions :...					1397/1398: Sold to Margraves of Baden 1603: To Duchy of Wurttemberg
Hohenberg-Nagold Nagold Nagold is a town in southwestern Germany, bordering the northern Black Forest. It is located in the Landkreis of Calw . Nagold is known for its ruined castle, Hohennagold Castle, and for its road viaduct...	County			1253: Partitioned from Zollern Zollern Zollern, from 1218 Hohenzollern, was a county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its ruling dynasty was the House of Hohenzollern, a Swabian noble family first mentioned in 1061. They named their estates after Hohenzollern Castle at the Swabian Alb; its capital was Hechingen... and Hohenberg Hohenberg Hohenberg may refer to:the Austrian Ducal family of Hohenberg who are descended from the Austrian Imperial and Royal Habsburg-Lorraine dynastyHohenberg, Lower Austria, a town in Austria*Hohenberg an der Eger, a town in Bavaria, Germany...	1264: Annexed to Zollern-Nuremberg 1363: Sold to Wurttemberg
Hohenberg-Rottenburg Rottenburg am Neckar Rottenburg am Neckar is a medium-sized town in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It rests about 50 km southwest of the provincial capital Stuttgart and about 12 km southwest of the district town Tübingen...	County			1253: Partitioned from Zollern and Hohenberg	1264: Annexed to Zollern-Nuremberg
Hohenberg-Wildberg					1200: Wildberg castle built 1237: 1st mention of Wildberg c1237: Wildberg, Nagold and other places passed through by marriage from Count Palatine of Tübingen to Counts of Hohenberg 1318: Burkhard V established seat of his territorial lordship, including Altensteig and Neubulach 1355: Division into Hohenberg-Burlach and Hohenberg-Altensteig 1364: To Electoral Palatinate 1440: To Wurttemberg
Hohenems Hohenems Hohenems is a town in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, in the Dornbirn district. It lies in the middle of the Austrian part of the Rhine valley. With a population of 15,200 it is the fifth largest municipality in Vorarlberg... Hohen-Embs HRE Count of Hohenems, Lord of Lustenau	1333: County 1560: HRE County	Swab		c1210	?: Immediate Lords of Hohenems 1603: Imperial Estate 1613: Counts of Sulz sold Vaduz and Schellenberg to the Counts of Hohenems 1613-1712: immediate Counts of Vaduz ?: immediate Lords of Lustenau 1646: Partitioned into Hohenems-Hohenems and Hohenems-Vaduz 17__: Lost Imperial Estate status 1765: Acquired by Austria
Hohenems-Hohenems	County			1646: Partitioned from Hohenems Hohenems Hohenems is a town in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, in the Dornbirn district. It lies in the middle of the Austrian part of the Rhine valley. With a population of 15,200 it is the fifth largest municipality in Vorarlberg...	1718: Annexed to Hohenems-Vaduz
Hohenems-Vaduz Vaduz Vaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein and the seat of the national parliament. The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,100 inhabitants , most of whom are Roman Catholic. Its cathedral is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop....	County			1646: Partitioned from Hohenems Hohenems Hohenems is a town in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, in the Dornbirn district. It lies in the middle of the Austrian part of the Rhine valley. With a population of 15,200 it is the fifth largest municipality in Vorarlberg...	1712: Purchased by House of Liechtenstein 1719: Annexed to P. of Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...
Hohenfels Hohenfels Hohenfels is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....	HRE Lordship
Hohengeroldseck Karl Kaspar von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck Karl Kaspar von der Leyen was Archbishop-Elector of Trier and a Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1652 to 1676.- Life :A member of the noble Leyen family, Charles Kaspar was made a coadjutor bishop on 11 June 1650...	12th cent.: Lordship 1705: County Principality	Swab			1692-1705: Under Imperial Administration Acquired by Leyen 1815: To Austria 1819: To Baden
Hohenlohe Hohenlohe Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely family and the name of their principality.At first rulers of a county, its two branches were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence and their lands formed part of...	1100s: County 1450: HRE County	Franc		1192	1100s: Henry I was the 1st to take title of Count of Hohenlohe 1230: Division into Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe and Hohenlohe-Brauneck 1256: Partitioned into Hohenlohe-Möckmühl, Hohenlohe-Röltingen and Hohenlohe-Weikersheim 1500: Franconian Circle 1390: Hohenlohe-Brauneck line extinct; lands passed to Brandenburg 1412: Hohenlohe-Uffenheim-Speckfeld line extinct 1551: Division into Hohenlohe-Neuenstein and Hohenlohe-Waldenburg 1631: Hohenlohe-Neuenstein inherited County of Gleichen 1805: Senior line of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein extinct 1701: Junion line of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein divided into Hohelohe-Langenburg, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg 1861: Hohenlohe-Kirchberg line died out 1824: Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst inherited the Duchies of Rabibor and Corbie Area (1806): 680 sq. mi.; Pop: 108,000
Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Bartoszyce Bartoszyce is a town on the Łyna River in northeastern Poland with 25,621 inhabitants . It is the capital of Bartoszyce County within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.-History:...	1688: HRE County 1764: HRE Principality			1688: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst	1798: Division into Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a German Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Bartenstein. Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1744... and Hohenlohe-Jagstberg Hohenlohe-Jagstberg Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was a Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Jagstberg which had been a territory of the Bishopric of Würzburg. Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was a partition of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and was mediatised to Württemberg in 1806.-Prince of Hohenlohe-Jagstberg... 1806: Mediatised to Wurttemberg
Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Ingelfingen Ingelfingen is a town in the Hohenlohe district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Kocher, 4 km northwest of Künzelsau, and 36 km northeast of Heilbronn....	1701: County 1764: HRE Principality			1701: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a German county of northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located around Langenburg. Hohenlohe-Neuenstein was partitioned into it, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg in 1701... 1806: Annexed by Bavaria
Hohenlohe-Jagstberg Hohenlohe-Jagstberg Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was a Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Jagstberg which had been a territory of the Bishopric of Würzburg. Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was a partition of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and was mediatised to Württemberg in 1806.-Prince of Hohenlohe-Jagstberg...	1798-1806: Principality			1798: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a German Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Bartenstein. Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1744...	1806: Mediatised to Wurttemberg
Hohenlohe-Kirchberg Hohenlohe-Kirchberg Hohenlohe-Kirchberg was a German County located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Kirchberg. It was ruled by a branch of the Hohenlohe family. The county of Kirchberg was located between the territories of Brandenburg-Ansbach to the north and east, the Free City of Schwäbisch Hall...	1650: County 1764: HRE Principality			1650: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a German county of northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located around Langenburg. Hohenlohe-Neuenstein was partitioned into it, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg in 1701... 1701: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a German county of northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located around Langenburg. Hohenlohe-Neuenstein was partitioned into it, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg in 1701...	1675: Reunited with Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a German county of northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located around Langenburg. Hohenlohe-Neuenstein was partitioned into it, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg in 1701... 1806: Mediatised to Bavaria 1810: Traded to Wurttemberg
Hohenlohe-Künzelsau Künzelsau Künzelsau[p] is a town in Baden-Württemberg, in south central Germany. It is the capital of the Hohenlohe district. It is located on the river Kocher, 19 km north of Schwäbisch Hall, and 37 km northeast of Heilbronn....	1676-1689: County			1676: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein	1689: Reunited with Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a German county of northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located around Langenburg. Hohenlohe-Neuenstein was partitioned into it, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Kirchberg in 1701...	1586: County 1764: HRE Principality			1586: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
Hohenlohe-Möckmühl Möckmühl Möckmühl is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Jagst, 22 km northeast of Heilbronn....	County			1256: Partitioned from Hohenlohe Hohenlohe Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely family and the name of their principality.At first rulers of a county, its two branches were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence and their lands formed part of...	1340: Divided between Hohenlohe-Uffenheim and Hohenlohe-Wernsberg
Hohenlohe-Neuenstein	1472: County 1772: HRE Principality			1472: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Weikersheim	1698: To Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen 1702: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen 1708: Annexed to Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen
Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Ingelfingen Ingelfingen Ingelfingen is a town in the Hohenlohe district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Kocher, 4 km northwest of Künzelsau, and 36 km northeast of Heilbronn.... HRE Prince of Hohenlohe, Count of Gleichen, Lord of Langenburg & Kranichfeld	1764: HRE Principality
Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Kirchberg Kirchberg an der Jagst Kirchberg an der Jagst is a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Jagst, 11 km northwest of Crailsheim.The Second World War resistance member Friedrich Gustav Jaeger was born here.... HRE Prince of Hohenlohe, Count of Gleichen, Lord of Langenburg & Kranichfeld	1764: HRE Principality
Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Langenburg Langenburg Langenburg is a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on a hill above the river Jagst, 18 km northeast of Schwäbisch Hall... HRE Prince of Hohenlohe, Count of Gleichen, Lord of Langenburg & Kranichfeld)	1764: HRE Principality
Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen	1698: County 1764: HRE Principality				1702: Division into Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
Hohenlohe-Öhringen Öhringen Öhringen is the largest city in Hohenlohe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near Heilbronn. Öhringen is on the railways to Schwäbisch Hall and Crailsheim.With a population of 22,745 , the city is diverse...	1641: HRE County 1764: HRE Principality			1676: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein	1765: Annexed to Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a German County located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Ingelfingen. Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a partition of Hohenlohe-Langenburg... 1805: Passed to Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Hohenlohe-Röltingen Hohenlohe Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely family and the name of their principality.At first rulers of a county, its two branches were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence and their lands formed part of...	County			1256: Partitioned from Hohenlohe Hohenlohe Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely family and the name of their principality.At first rulers of a county, its two branches were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence and their lands formed part of...	Extinct in 1290
Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Schillingsfürst Schillingsfürst is a municipality in the district of Ansbach, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 12 km southeast of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, and 23 km west of Ansbach.-Notable people:...	County			1615: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Waldenburg	1688: Partitioned into Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a German Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Bartenstein. Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1744... and Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a County in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and was mediatised to Württemberg in 1806....
Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst-Weikersheim Weikersheim Weikersheim is a town in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 9 km east of Bad Mergentheim, Weikersheim is the location of the famous castle Schloss Weikersheim....	County			1472: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Weikersheim	1545: Annexed to Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
Hohenlohe-Uffenheim Uffenheim Uffenheim is a town in the Neustadt -Bad Windsheim district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 14 km west of Bad Windsheim, and 36 km southeast of Würzburg....	County			1262: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Möckmühl	1387: Annexed to Nuremberg Nuremberg Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg Waldenburg is a hilltop town in south central Germany, eastwards of Heilbronn in the Hohenlohe of Baden-Württemberg. The town is the site of Waldenburg Castle and some hilltop churches...	1553: County 1557: HRE Prince 1757: HRE Principality			1553: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein	1615, 1679: Partitioned into various states
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a German Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Bartenstein. Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1744... (HRE Prince of Hohenlohe, Count of Waldenburg, Lord of Langenburg)	1744: HRE Principality				1746: Franconian Imperial Circle
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a County in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and was mediatised to Württemberg in 1806.... HRE Prince of Hohenlohe, Count of Waldenburg, Lord of Schillingsfürst & Langenburg	1697: HRE County 1744: HRE Principality			1688: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1806: Annexed by Bavaria
Hohenlohe-Weikersheim Weikersheim Weikersheim is a town in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 9 km east of Bad Mergentheim, Weikersheim is the location of the famous castle Schloss Weikersheim....	County			1256: Partitioned from Hohenlohe Hohenlohe Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely family and the name of their principality.At first rulers of a county, its two branches were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence and their lands formed part of...	1490: Annexed to Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst-Weikersheim
Hohenlohe-Weikersheim Weikersheim Weikersheim is a town in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 9 km east of Bad Mergentheim, Weikersheim is the location of the famous castle Schloss Weikersheim....	County			1610: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein	1756: Annexed to Hohenlohe-Öhringen
Hohenlohe-Wernsberg Hohenlohe Hohenlohe is the name of a German princely family and the name of their principality.At first rulers of a county, its two branches were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence and their lands formed part of...	County			1267: Partitioned from Hohenlohe-Möckmühl	1350: Annexed to Hohenlohe-Uffenheim
Hohenrechberg	Lordship			1163	1585: Annexed to Staufeneck
Hohenrechberg and Aichen Aichen Aichen is a municipality in the district of Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany....	Lordship 1626: County			1605: Partitioned from Aichen Aichen Aichen is a municipality in the district of Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany....	1676: Annexed to Donzdorf Donzdorf Donzdorf is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.It is located 12 km east of Göppingen, and 13 km south of Schwäbisch Gmünd. It is notably known from being home to one of the biggest heavy metal music record companies, Nuclear Blast Records....
Hohenwaldeck and Maxlrain Hohen-Waldeck	Lordship				1500: Bavarian Circle
Hohenzollern HRE Prince of Hohenzollern, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Sigmaringen & Vöringen, Count of Berg, Lord of Haigerloch & Werstein, etc.	County 1363: HRE Prince 1623: HRE Princely County			1309: Emerged from the countships of Zollern Zollern Zollern, from 1218 Hohenzollern, was a county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its ruling dynasty was the House of Hohenzollern, a Swabian noble family first mentioned in 1061. They named their estates after Hohenzollern Castle at the Swabian Alb; its capital was Hechingen...	1061: 1st mention of Hohenzollerns 1267: 1st mention of Zollern Castle 1512: Partitioned into Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen was a county and principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to a branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.-History:... & ?
Hohenzollern-Haigerloch	County 1630: Principality			1575: Partitioned from Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen was a county and principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to a branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.-History:...	1767: Annexed to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen -Noble jurisdictions:Prince Karl Eitel of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and descendants of his nephew Ferdinand ruled over the Kingdom of Romania, as Karl Eitel did not have children...
Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen was a county and principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to a branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.-History:... Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Sigmaringen and Veringen, Count of Berg, Lord of Haigerloch and Werstein, etc	County 1623: HRE Principality	Swab		1512: Partitioned from Hohenzollern	1653: HRE Council of Princes 1806: Joined Confederation of the Rhine 1815: Joined German Confederation 1849: To Prussia 1869: Hohenzollern-Hechingen line became extinct
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen -Noble jurisdictions:Prince Karl Eitel of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and descendants of his nephew Ferdinand ruled over the Kingdom of Romania, as Karl Eitel did not have children... HRE Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Sigmaringen and Veringen, Count of Berg, Lord of Haigerloch and Werstein, etc.	County 1623: Principality	Swab		1575: Partitioned from Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen Hohenzollern-Hechingen was a county and principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to a branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.-History:...	1849: To Prussia
Hohnstein Hohenstein, Thuringia Hohenstein is a municipality in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany.... (Hohenstein)	County	Upp Sax		1123: county est. as fief of the older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein...	Before 1180: Fief of the older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein... , till emperor deposed Henry the Lion 1180: Gained Imperial immediacy at the carve-up of the older Duchy of Saxony 1238-1267: Counts of Hohenstein acquired County of Klettenberg as a fief of the Prince-Bishop of Halberstadt 1268: Acquired Lordship of Sömmerda 1300s: Acquired County of Lohra 1315: Division into 3 lines 1593: Line of Counts of Hohenstein died out 1648: Annexed to Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam... , Schwarzburg Schwarzburg Schwarzburg is a municipality in the valley of the Schwarza in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany.First mentioned in 1071 as Swartzinburg. The castle was from the 12th century the seat of the Counts of Schwarzburg... and Stolberg Stolberg - Towns in Germany :* Stolberg, Saxony-Anhalt in the district of Sangerhausen in Saxony-Anhalt, seat of the counts of Stolberg* Stolberg in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia, part of the Duchy of Jülich until 1794, awarded to Prussia in 1815* Stollberg, in the Erzgebirgskreis in the... Under partial overlordship of Hanover
Holland	1000s: HRE County 1806-1810: Kingdom of Holland			c1150: Split off from Bishopric of Utrecht	1064: 1st mention of Holland c1100: Title Count of Holland 1st used 1299: United with the County of Hainaut 1349-1433: To Bavarian Wittelsbachs 1433-1482: To Duchy of Burgundy Duchy of Burgundy The Duchy of Burgundy , was heir to an ancient and prestigious reputation and a large division of the lands of the Second Kingdom of Burgundy and in its own right was one of the geographically larger ducal territories in the emergence of Early Modern Europe from Medieval Europe.Even in that... ; later the dominant hegemon of the United Provinces Dutch Republic The Dutch Republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands , the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces — was a republic in Europe existing from 1581 to 1795, preceding the Batavian Republic and ultimately... , but as a republic, the house of Orange being merely styled stadholder 1482-1581: To Habsburgs 1512: Burgundian Circle 1813: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Holstein Holstein Holstein is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is part of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany.... Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarshes, Lauenburg & Oldenburg	County 1111-1474: HRE County 1474-1806:HRE Duchy	Low Sax	PR	1111	1111: Emperor Lothair enfeoffed Adolf of Schauenburg with Holstein and Stormarn 1261: Division into Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel, Holstein-Pinneberg, Holstein-Plon, Holstein-Rendsburg, Holstein-Segeberg 1386: Acquired Duchy of Schleswig 1474: Merged into Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig... 1582: HRE Council of Princes
Holstein-Glückstadt Holstein-Glückstadt The Duchy of Holstein in Glückstadt was the northernmost state of the Holy Roman Empire. It consisted of the part of Holstein that was ruled by the king of Denmark; its capital was Glückstadt on the River Elbe.-History:...					1582: HRE Council of Princes
Holstein-Gottorp Holstein-Gottorp Holstein-Gottorp or Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp is the historiographical name, as well as contemporary shorthand name, for the parts of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein that were ruled by the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. Other parts of the duchies were ruled by the kings of Denmark. The...					1582: HRE Council of Princes
Holstein-Schaumburg Schaumburg Schaumburg is a district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Nienburg, Hanover and Hamelin-Pyrmont, and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .-History:... HRE Prince, Count of Holstein, Schaumburg and Sternberg, Lord of Gemen
Holzapfel Holzappel Holzappel is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with a population in 2006 of 1100.Holzappel was a county and state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1643 until 1714. It was founded by Peter Melander of Holzappel, an imperial field marshal during the Thirty Years'... (Holzappel)	1641: HRE County	Low Rhen		1641	1727: Passed to Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym was a German principality and member of the Holy Roman Empire. The death of Prince Victor Amadeus of Anhalt-Bernburg in 1718, resulted in the partition of his land with his second son Lebrecht inheriting what was originally known as Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym.The name of the...
Homburg	Lordship
Horburg Horburg-Maßlau Horburg-Maßlau is village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 31 December 2009, it is part of the town Leuna....	County
Horne	County				After 1568: Personal union with Bp. of Liège Liège Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....
Horneck Horneck Castle, Germany Horneck Castle is also known as Burg Horneck, Deutschordenschloss Horneck and Schloß Horneck.A castle located in the town of Gundelsheim, Northern Karlsruhe County, Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany...	Commandery
Hörstgen (Horstgen)	Lordship				Under overlordship of Mors To Counts of Drachenfels 1530: Inherited by Millendonk-Mirlar Passed to Brochhorst Passed to Croy Passed to Burlepsch Passed to Ostein 1754: Passed to Barons of Knesebeck 1794: French occupation 1815: To Prussia
Höwen	Lordship
Hoya	1202: County	Low Rhen		1204	Before 1180: Part of older Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein... , till emperor deposed Henry the Lion 1202: 1st mention of "Count of Hoya" 1215: Purchased the free county of Nienburg Purchased County of Altbruchhausen Purchased County of Neubruchhausen 1345: Division into Upper Hoya (Nienburg) and Lower Hoya (Hoya) 1497: Hoya line extinct; territories to Nienburg 1512: Occupied by Brunswick-Luneburg 1519: Counts of Hoya regained territories 1582: Line died out; territories to Hanover 1866: To Prussia

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