Principality of Heitersheim

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Map of Heitersheim (red) before 1803

The Principality of Heitersheim (Fürstentum Heitersheim) was an

Reichsmeilen (50 km2) and a population of about 5 000.[1]

Its chief town,

Vogt.[1]

In 1428, Heitersheim, which had by then obtained

Malta (1530–1798).[2]

In the 18th century Heitersheim fell gradually under the domination of the

Bonndorf, thus greatly expanding in size.[1] The preservation of the knights' organization as an imperial estate was nominally in gratitude for their military service. In fact, it was intended to provide opportunities for many of the noblemen who had lost status with the dissolution of the cathedral chapters.[3]

With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, it was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Baden.[1] The annexation was ordered by the Confederation of the Rhine, a group of imperial estates that had banded together to leave the empire, on 12 June 1806 just prior to the imperial dissolution. The last prince-prior, Ignaz Balthasar Rinck von Baldenstein,[3] died almost exactly one year later, on 13 June 1807.[4]

List of prince-priors

  • Georg Schilling von Cannstatt (1546–1553)
  • Georg II Bombastus von Hohenheim (1553–1567)
  • Adam von Schwalbach (1567–1573)
  • Philipp Flach (1573–1594)
  • Philipp II Riedesel von Camberg (1594–1598)
  • Bernhard von Angeloch (1598–1599)
  • Philipp III von Lesch (1599–1601)
  • Wippert von Rosenberg (1601–1607)
  • Arbogast von Andlau (1607–1612)
  • Johann Friedrich Hund von Sarrlheim (1612–1635)
  • Walraff de Scheiffart de Mèrode (1635–1646)
  • Hermann I von der Thann (1646–1647)
  • Friedrich II von Hessen Darmstadt (1647–1682)
  • Franz von Sonnenberg (1682–1683)
  • Franz II von Droste zu Bischering (1683)
  • Hermann II von Wachtendonck (1683–1703)
  • Bernhard Wilhelm von der Rhede (1703–1721)
  • Goswin Hermann Otto von Merveldt (1721–1728)
  • Philipp Wilhelm von Nesselrode (1728–1754)
  • Philipp Joachim Vogt von Prassberg (1754–1755)
  • Johann Baptist von Sonnenberg Herlesheim (1755–1773)
  • Franz Christoph Sebastian von Nemching Apfeltrang (1773–1777)
  • Franz Christoph Benedikt von Reinach zu Foussemaigne und Kappach (1777–1796)
  • Johann Joseph Benedikt von Reinach (1796)
  • Ignaz Balthasar Rinck von Baldenstein (1796–1806)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Köbler 2007, p. 264.
  2. ^ a b van Bueren 2006, p. 211.
  3. ^ a b c d Whaley 2012, pp. 620–21.
  4. ^ Sommerlad 1977, p. 120.

Sources

  • Bueren, Truus van (2006). "The Art Treasures of the Haarlem Convent of St John: Objects of Desire to a Protestant Town". In Johannes A. Mol; Klaus Militzer; Helen J. Nicholson (eds.). The Military Orders and the Reformation: Choices, State Building, and the Weight of Tradition. Hilversum Verloren. pp. 209–236.
  • Köbler, Gerhard (2007). Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder: die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (7th rev. ed.). Munich: C. H. Beck.
  • Sommerlad, Bernhard (1977). "The Grand Priory of Germany of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem during the Period of Transition from the Middle Ages to the Reformation As Reflected in the Reports of General Visitations of 1494/95 and 1540/41 (review)". Philosophy and History. 10 (1): 118–120.
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  • Whaley, Joachim (2012). Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648–1806. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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