County of Masserano

This article is about the specific polity County of Masserano 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.

If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this polity you can find it here:All Statistics

Was a county, and later a marquisate and a principality, of the Holy Roman Empire centered in Piedmont.

Establishment

January 1106: The County of Masserano had an unusual political-legal status in the north-western Italian peninsula: it was, in fact, only a papal fiefdom and, to compensate for this isolation, it acquired the privilege of minting coins from an imperial source, starting with Frederick I Barbarossa.