Adelsheim Lordship

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Was a lordship of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

January 1339: Around this time, a local nobility also appeared, the Lords of Adelsheim, whose Veste was mentioned in 1338.

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.Franco-Swedish Period

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

1.1.1.1.Rhineland Front (France)

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

May 1645: French General Thurenne advanced up to Bad Mergentheim, where a battle with German field Marshal Franz von Mercy would take place on May, 5 1645.

November 1645: The French evacuate their ephemeral conquests in Germany, systematically devastating them.

2. 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: Adelsheim was never one of the major ecclesiastical or secular principalities in the area, but was owned by the Imperial Knights until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803. Then it came to the Grand Duchy of Baden.