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Was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, partitioned from the Burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1477.
Establishment
January 1398: On 21 January 1398, the territories of Ansbach and Bayreuth were partitioned from the Burgraviate of Nuremberg. This division was carried out by the ruling Hohenzollern family, with Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, granting Ansbach to his younger son Frederick VI and Bayreuth to his elder son John III.
Chronology
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Was a war between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Hohenzollern domains of Ansbach and Bayreuth.
January 1462: Louis the Rich of Bavaria was able to occupy further areas of the Brandenburg possessions.
January 1464: A settlement was agreed in the Prague of Prague of 1463: Louis the Rich withdrew from the occupied territories and Albrecht Achilles renounced his claim to imperial jurisdiction.
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.
April 1632: On April 15, during the Battle of Rain am Lech, east of Donauwörth, the Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperial forces commanded by Tilly.
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.
June 1648: In May 1648, there was the last major field battle of the Thirty Years' War between French-Swedish and Imperial-Bavarian armies near Augsburg.
2.1.2.2.Rhineland Front (France)
Was the Rhineland front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.
August 1645: French general Mercy and the Duc d'Enghien defeated the Imperial army at the Second Battle of Nördlingen on August 3.
November 1645: The French evacuate their ephemeral conquests in Germany, systematically devastating them.
2.1.3.Peace of Westphalia
Were a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War. Catholics and Protestants were redefined as equal in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. There were major territorial adjustments. In particular, France, Sweden and Brandenburg had major territorial gains, and several religious territories of the Holy Roman Empire were secularized.
October 1648: With the Peace of Westphalia Sweden received Western Pomerania (henceforth Swedish Pomerania), Wismar, and the Prince-Bishoprics of Bremen and Verden as hereditary fiefs. Sweden evacuated the remnant territories it had occupied in the Holy Roman Empire.
June 1420: Frederick of Ansbach had become Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1415.
September 1440: Upon the death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided between his sons; John received the principality of Bayreuth (Brandenburg-Kulmbach), Frederick received Brandenburg, and Albert received Ansbach.
January 1444: Kitzingen is sold by the Prince Bishopric of Würzburg to the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach for 39,100 guilders.
January 1471: Restoration of the personal union of Bayreuth, Ansbach and Brandenburg.
January 1487: Separation of Bayreuth and Ansbach from Brandenburg.
January 1524: In 1523, George of Schellenberg, a nobleman and landowner, was forced to sell Krnov to the Hohenzollern margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
January 1623: In 1622 Oderberg (today Bohumín) was confiscated by Emperor Rudolf II and fell under Austrian sovereignty.
January 1630: Kitzingen is sold to the Würzburg Prince-Bishopric.
January 1770: The younger line of the Brandenburg-Bayreuth margraves died out in 1769 with the death of Frederick Christian, whereafter Bayreuth and Ansbach were once again ruled in personal union by Margrave Charles Alexander.
January 1787: In the 17th century, control of the city (Fürth) lay in different parts and in changing forms with the Bamberg cathedral chapter, the principality of Ansbach and the imperial city of Nuremberg.
January 1787: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XVIII century.
January 1792: On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia. Ansbach was formally annexed on 28 January 1792.
Disestablishment
January 1792: On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia. Ansbach was formally annexed on 28 January 1792.
Selected Sources
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 46-47
Krumenacker, Y. (2008): La Guerre de Trente Ans, Paris, Ellipses, pp. 144-145
Schmidt, G. (2006): Der Dreißigjährige Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 65
Spindler, M. (2017): Geschichte Schwabens bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich (Germany), p. 266
Westfälischer Friede - Vertrag von Osnabrück, https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Westf%C3%A4lischer_Friede_%E2%80%93_Vertrag_von_Osnabr%C3%BCck
Ansbach Principality
