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Name: Mark County

Type: Polity

Start: 1199 AD

End: 1391 AD

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment


  • January 1199: Foundation of the Mark County.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1366: Bilstein belonged to the County of Mark from 1365.

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

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1392: In 1391, the territories of Cleves and Mark were united under the Kleve-Mark Duchy. This union was a result of the marriage between Adolph I of Cleves and Margaret of Jülich, which brought the two territories together under one ruler.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31
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