Principality of Leiningen

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Was a county, and later a principality, of the Holy Roman Empire whose core lands were located in the modern-day German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Establishment

January 1804: In 1803, the princes of the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg line were compensated for their lost possessions in the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine with a new territory, which became part of the Principality of Leiningen. This territory was located in present-day Germany.

Chronology

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1. 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 1807: The city of Leiningen is annexed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1810.

January 1807: The majority of the Leiningen principality fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden.