lippe

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

Lippe Lordship

County of Lippe

Principality of Lippe

Establishment

January 1124: Lippe Lordship is mentioned for the first time in 1123.

Chronology

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1. 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.

1.1.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.

1.1.1.Swedish Period

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

April 1633: Count Peter Melander of Holzappel's Hessians take Paderborn.

1.1.2.Franco-Swedish Period

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

1.1.2.1.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.

2. German Unification Wars

Were a series of wars that resulted in the creation of the German Empire under Prussian leadership in 1871.

2.1.Franco-Prussian War

Was a war that saw the Second French Empire fight against an alliance of German states led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The war was caused by the struggle over dominance in continental Europe between Prussia and France. The German states were victorious and in 1871 merged to form the German Empire. France was occupied and forced to cede Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.

2.1.1.Unification of Germany (1871)

Was the unification of 25 German states into the German Empire under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.

January 1871: From 1871 Lippe was a state within the German Empire.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1238: Rietberg County was formed when Conrad I of Cuijk Arnsberg acquired Rietberg from Lippe.

January 1301: In the 13th century, the noble lords of Lippe ruled in Enger, who were given their power by Henry the Lion and from that point on worked as bailiffs.

January 1366: The Lippe Lordship acquired Schwalenberg.

January 1406: The Lordship of Lippe ecquired Sternberg.

January 1409: In 1408 Enger fell to the County of Ravensberg.

January 1530: Establishment of the County of Lippe.

October 1720: The County of Lippe is elevated to the rank of principality.

Disestablishment

January 1871: From 1871 Lippe was a state within the German Empire.

Selected Sources

Köbler, G. (2014) Historische Enzyklopädie der Länder der Deutschen, C.H. Beck München, pp. 28-31

O'Mahony, C. I. (2013). War within the Walls: Conflict and Citizenship in the Murals of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 6(1), 6-23.

Schmidt, G. (2006): Der Dreißigjährige Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 65