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Name: Meissen Burgraviate

Type: Polity

Start: 1007 AD

End: 1563 AD

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Was a state of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment


  • January 1007: Meissen Burgraviate is mentioned for the first time in 1006.
  • Chronology


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    1. Mongol invasions and conquests


    Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

    1.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany

    Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

    1.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany

    Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

  • May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.
  • June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


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

  • January 1467: The Meissen Burgraviate lost Plauen, Pausa, Gefell, and Graßlitz to Saxony.

  • January 1549: In 1547, King Ferdinand of Bohemia ceded Plauen to the Burgrave of Meissen.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1564: After the death of Henry IV his sons Henry V and Henry VI pledged ownership of the Meissen Burgraviate to Elector Augustus of Saxony, who finally acquired the area in 1563.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31
  • Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67
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