Nassau-Orange-Fulda Principality

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Was a short-lived principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1803 to 1806. It was created for William Frederick, the son and heir of William V, Prince of Orange, the ousted stadtholder of the abolished Dutch Republic after the Batavian Revolution of 1795.

Establishment

January 1803: In the course of secularization, the monastery and imperial abbey of Weingarten were dissolved in 1802 and initially belonged to the House of Orange-Nassau.

Chronology

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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

January 1804: The Corvey Prince-Bishopric is acquired by the Nassau-Orange-Fulda Principality.

January 1804: The Imperial City of Dortmund is acquired by the Nassau-Orange-Fulda Principality.

January 1807: In 1806 Weingarten Abbey became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

January 1807: Several scattered territories of other German polities were added to the Grand Duchy of Berg, including Berg, Dortmund, Steinfurd, Werden, and Wildenburg.

January 1808: In 1807, the territory of Nassau-Orange-Fulda was transferred to the Duchy of Nassau.