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Name: fulda (abtei)

Type: Cluster

Start: 775 AD

End: 1803 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Fulda Abbey
  • Fulda Imperial Abbey
  • Fulda Prince-Bishopric
  • Establishment


  • January 775: Imperial immediacy of the Fulda Abbey.
  • Chronology


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    1. Hungarian invasions of Europe


    The Magyars (or Hungarians) successfully conquered the Carpathian Basin (corresponding to the later Kingdom of Hungary) by the end of the ninth century, and launched a number of plundering raids thoughout Europe.

  • January 938: In 937, the Hungarians raided France as far west as Reims, Lotharingia, Swabia, Franconia, the Duchy of Burgundy and Italy as far as Otranto in the south.
  • February 938: In 937, the Hungarians raided France as far west as Reims, Lotharingia, Swabia, Franconia, the Duchy of Burgundy and Italy as far as Otranto in the south. After the ride they left these territories.

  • 2. European wars of religion


    Were a series of wars in Europe (and the overseas possessions of European countries) the 16th, 17th and early 18th that started after the Protestant Reformation. Although the immediate causes of the wars were religious, the motives were complex and also included territorial ambitions.

    2.1.Thirty Years' War

    Was a war that took place mainly in central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war began as a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestant in the Holy Roman Empire but then escalated into a conflict for the hegemony in Europe between Habsburg Spain and Austria, Sweden and France.

    2.1.1.Swedish Period

    Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.

  • December 1631: Gustav Adolf II of Sweden crosses the Rhine with his army and besieges Mainz.

  • 2.1.2.Franco-Swedish Period

    Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

    2.1.2.1.North German Front (Sweden)

    Was the north German front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

  • November 1637: After the death of Swedish King Ferdinand II, his son and successor Ferdinand III brought the Swedish troops back to Pomerania, leaving the territories occupied by Sweden in Germany.

  • 3. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

  • January 1804: The Fulda Prince-Bishopric is secularised to Nassau.

  • 4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1157: Fulda is elevated to a Prince-Abbacy.

  • January 1547: With the introduction of the Reformation in 1546 and as a result of the Thirty Years' War, the Schlitz Lordship brake away from Fulda.

  • January 1753: Fulda is elevated to Prince-Bishopric.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1804: The Fulda Prince-Bishopric is secularised to Nassau.
  • Selected Sources


  • Leyser, K. (1982): Medieval Germany and its neighbours, 900-1250, London (UK), p. 50
  • Reuter, T. (1995): The New Cambridge Medieval History: c. 900-c. 1024, Cambridge (UK), p. 543
  • Schmidt, G. (2006): Der Dreißigjährige Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 65
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