Hohenlohe County

This article is about the specific polity Hohenlohe County and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a county, and later a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, located in southwest Germany.

Establishment

January 1101: Establishment of the Hohenlohe County.

Chronology

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1. European wars of religion

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.Franco-Swedish Period

Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

1.1.1.1.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. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1220: In 1219, the brothers Andreas, Friedrich and Heinrich von Hohenlohe gave the Teutonic Order property and rights in Mergentheim, which made it the Commander of the Teutonic Order and laid the foundation for becoming a town and for the Teutonic Order residence.

January 1274: With the end of Hohenstaufen Dynasty influence from 1273, many imperial territories were acquired by states of the Holy Roman Empire.

January 1339: Around this time, a local nobility also appeared, the Lords of Adelsheim, whose Veste was mentioned in 1338.

January 1379: Hohenlohe-Uffenheim is sold to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg

January 1548: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Reformation.

May 1744: Hohenlohe is raised to principality.