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Imperial State (Reichsstand, plural Reichsstände): an entity in the Holy Roman Empire with a vote in the Imperial Diet. Kleinstaaterei is a German word mostly used to describe the territorial fragmentation in Germany and neighboring regions during the Holy Roman Empire (especially after the end of the Thirty Years' War ).
The "Imperial Circle" column shows to which circle (Reichskreis) the state belonged; the " Imperial Diet " column shows where the state was represented in the Imperial Diet or "Bench" ( Reichstag ). An explanation of these columns is shown in the main article for this topic, linked here .
1676: HRE Count 1793: To France 1802: Compensated with Baindt 1806: To Württemberg: Auersperg: Lordship 1550: Barony 1653: County 1664: Princely County: Aust PR 1162: First mentioned, in Carniola 1550: HRE Baron 1630: HRE Count 1653: HRE Prince 1654: Bench of Secular Princes 1654: Acquired Silesia-Munsterberg and Frankestein 1663: Acquired Tengen
The Holy Roman Empire, [f] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [16] It developed in the Early Middle Ages , and lasted for a millennium until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars .
1640: 1/2 to Hesse-Cassel, 1/2 to Lippe-Alverdissen: Schaumburg-Lippe Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Noble Lord of Lippe, Count of Schwalenberg and Sternberg, etc. County Low Rhen WE 1647: Renamed from Lippe-Alverdissen: Schaunberg: Lordship by 1316: County Aust WE c. 1160: First mentioned By 1316: HRE Count 1367: Acquired Eferding 1390: Made fief ...
1390: HRE Princess of the Empire 1802: To Prussia 1806: To Berg 1811: To France 1815: To Prussia: Eltz: Lordship n/a n/a 12th Century 1336: Fiefs to the Archbishopric of Trier 1729: HRE Knight 1733: HRE Count (Main line) 1794: To France: Ems: Lordship n/a n/a 11th Century 14th Century: Imperial immediacy 1395: Acquired Lustenau 1453: Renamed to ...
Name sometimes given to the County of Tecklenburg under the rule of the Bentheim 1277 - 1328 Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda: County Low Rhen WE 1606: Partitioned from Bentheim-Steinfurt 1696: Tecklenburg to Solms-Braunfels 1807: To Berg: Bentinck HRE Count of Bentinck and Aldenburg, Lord of the free Lordship of Knyphausen, Noble Lord of Varel: Lordship
Among these were the "Byzantine Empire", which was the actual continuation of the Eastern portion of the Roman Empire, the Carolingian Empire, the largely Germanic Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian Empire. Yet, these states did not always fit the geographic, political, or military profiles of empires in the modern sense of the word.