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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.
Establishment
January 1144: In documents issued by the Archbishop of Mainz from 1122 two witnesses named after the castle of Wachenbuchen or simply "Buchen" (today part of the town of Maintal) are listed several times. They were Dammo of Buchen and his brother Siegebodo of Buchen. Dammo later called himself Dammo of Hanau. Hanau was a castle erected in a sharp bend of the Kinzig river a short distance before it flows into the Main river. The oldest mention of the castle dates to 1143.
Chronology
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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.Bohemian-Palatine period
Was the first period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with a protestant revolt in Bohemia, at the time a territory of the Habsburg Domains.
1.1.1.1.War in Palatinate
Was the theatre of war in Palatinate during the first phase of the Thirty Years' War.
December 1621: German Protestant military leader Christian of Brunswick takes Amöneburg, not far from Mainz.
September 1622: From the summer of 1622, the territories of the Palatinate on the right bank of the Rhine were occupied by the troops of the Catholc League. Frederick V of the Palatinate eventually lost his electoral dignity on February 23, 1623, which was transferred to Maximilian of Bavaria.
1.1.2.Swedish Period
Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.
December 1631: Gustav Adolf II of Sweden crosses the Rhine with his army and besieges Mainz.
1.1.3.Franco-Swedish Period
Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.
1.1.3.1.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.
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 1808: Hanau was detached from Hesse-Kassel and given to Karl Theodor von Dalberg.
February 1810: In 1810, Karl Theodor von Dalberg, who was the Prince of Regensburg and Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, merged Frankfurt with the Principality of Aschaffenburg, the County of Wetzlar, Fulda, and Hanau to form the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt.
January 1317: The Counts of Rieneck ceded Schlüchtern to Hanau in 1316.
January 1350: Pledging of the Gelnhausen by the later Emperor Charles IV in 1349.
January 1478: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XV century.
January 1501: At the end of the 15th century, the castle and town of Klingenberg came as a pledge to the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
January 1505: In 1504 there was a larger-scale exchange of territory between the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Kurmainz, in which Klingenberg fell to Mainz.
January 1571: Extinction of the Dynasty of Bitsch County, it fell to Hanau-Lichtenberg.
January 1573: The Hanau County is acquired by the Duchy of Upper Lotharingia.
January 1737: After the extinction of the counts of Hanau, their county was partitioned between Hesse-Cassel and Hesse-Darmstadt.
Disestablishment
February 1810: In 1810, Karl Theodor von Dalberg, who was the Prince of Regensburg and Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, merged Frankfurt with the Principality of Aschaffenburg, the County of Wetzlar, Fulda, and Hanau to form the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt.
Selected Sources
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 34-35
Schmidt, G. (2006): Der Dreißigjährige Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 65
Hanau County
