Landgraviate of Lower Alsace

This article is about the specific polity Landgraviate of Lower Alsace 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 Landgraviate and later a Landvogtei of the Holy Roman Empire located in Alsace (France).

Establishment

January 1131: Sigebert II became the first Count of Alsace in 1130 after the territory became the Landgraviate of Lower Alsace.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1227: Colmar is declared a Free Imperial City.

January 1258: Hagenau is declared a Free Imperial City.

January 1261: Between 1223 and 1260 the bishops of Strasbourg Berthold I von Teck and Heinrich III. von Stahleck expanded the secular territory of their Bishopric.