Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck

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County of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
Grafschaft Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
1639–1811
Coat of arms of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
Coat of arms
Status
Mediatised to Prussia
1813
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Salm-Reifferscheid
Lippe (department)

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a small imperial county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its territory was the area around Dyck (south-east of Mönchengladbach) in present North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a partition of

mediatised to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1813. Three years later, in 1816, the Head of the family[citation needed] was raised to the title of Fürst in Prussia.[2] When this branch of the Salm family died out in 1888,[2] the style was assumed by their closest agnatic cousins, Princes of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim.[citation needed
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The full princely style was

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Counts and Princes of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1639–1888)

References

  1. ^ Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. "Salm-Reifferscheidt". In Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.). 'Neue deutsche Biographie. 22' - Viewer | MDZ (in German). p. 383. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
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