Duchy of Luxembourg

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Was the domain of the Luxembourg House in the Holy Roman Empire. Its core territory was modern-day Luxembourg, but in the coures of the centuries it controlled a series of different territories like Bohemia. For this reason, despites being first a county and then a duchy, it was de facto a composite state. It ceased to exist as an independent state after being annexed to the Burgundian Netherlands (with the exception of some minor dynastyc territories that were acquired by Brandenburg shortly after).

Establishment

March 1354: In 1354, the county of Luxembourg was made a duchy by Emperor Charles IV.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1356: Sternstein made fief of Bohemia.

January 1365: Chiny County is sold it to Duke Wenceslaus of Luxembourg.

January 1368: Elector Otto von Wittelsbach sold the March of Lusatia to the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1367.

January 1369: In 1368 Longwy was ceded to the Duke of Luxembourg.

January 1374: Charles (Luxembourg) succeeded in purchasing Brandenburg from Margrave Otto for 500,000 guilders in 1373 and, at a Landtag in Guben, he attached (but not incorporated) Brandenburg to the Crown of Bohemia.

January 1376: In 1375 Zossen was listed in Charles IV's land book as belonging to the Mark Brandenburg.

January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.

January 1379: Longwy returned to the Duke of Bar in 1378.

January 1385: After the Strele died out, the lords of Biberstein owned the town and castle of Storkow from 1384 to 1518.

January 1386: Duke Swantibor III of Pomerania-Stettin acquired the cities of Burg and Löcknitz.

January 1395: Following the death of Louis d'Enghien in 1394, the barony of Enghien passed to the house of Luxembourg.

January 1403: In 1402 Konrad von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, was able to acquire the Brandenburg Neumark for 63,200 Hungarian guilders.

January 1412: In return for supporting Sigismund as Holy Roman Emperor at Frankfurt in 1410, Frederick VI of Nuremberg, a burgrave of the House of Hohenzollern, was granted hereditary control over Brandenburg in 1411.

January 1420: Sulzbach-Rosenberg sold to the Wittelsbach.

January 1438: When Bohemian king Sigismund of Luxembourg died in 1437, the Bohemian estates elected Albert of Austria as his successor.

January 1444: In 1443, Philip of Burgundy conquers the Duchy of Luxembourg.

January 1446: Cottbus became part of Brandenburg.