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Was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
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 Ansbach going to Frederick VI and Bayreuth going to 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 two disputes between the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg and the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
2.1.Second Margrave War
Was a dispute between the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg and the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
July 1554: The Plassenburg under Joachim von Zedtwitz, residence and state fortress of the Franconian Hohenzollerns, was besieged until June 1554.
August 1554: N the Battle of Schwarzach in June 1554, Albrecht suffered a defeat and in July 1554 had to surrender the Plassenburg Fortress to the federal troops, who destroyed it.
November 1554: After the margraviate of Bayreuth was administered by imperial sequestrators, including the Bohemian feudal chancellor Count von Schlick, in a transitional phase, it eventually went to the Alliance of Holy Roman Empire States in 1554.
January 1555: Restoration of the status quo ante at the end of the Second Margrave War.
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.
3.1.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.
3.1.1.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.
3.1.2.Franco-Swedish Period
Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.
3.1.2.1.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.
July 1648: Swedish Siege of Prague from July 25, 1648.
3.1.3.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.
January 1416: After Bayreuth prince John III's death on 11 June 1420, the his domains were inherited by his brother Frederick VI of Bayreuth, who 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 1471: Restoration of the personal union of Bayreuth, Ansbach and Brandenburg.
January 1487: Separation of Bayreuth and Ansbach from Brandenburg.
January 1548: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Reformation.
Disestablishment
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.
Selected Sources
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 38-39
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
Bayreuth Principality
