Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein

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Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein

Herrschaft Winneburg und Beilstein

1488–1801

Coat of arms

Status| State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital| Beilstein
Common languages| Moselle Franconian
Government| Feudal Lordship

• from 1652

| House of Metternich
Historical era| Middle Ages

• Lordship founded

| 13th century

• Fiefdom of Trier

| 1488

• Ceded to France

| 1801

• Acquired by Prussia

| 1815

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Duchy of Lorraine

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| Kingdom of Prussia |

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The Lordship of Beilstein in the Moselle Valley

The Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein (German: Herrschaft Winneburg und Beilstein) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire made of non-contiguous parts located in the Moselle Valley around Winneburg Castle near Cochem, and Beilstein, on the Moselle River. It should not be confused with the County of Beilstein, or Nassau-Beilstein [nl; de], which belonged to the House of Nassau.

## History

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The Lords of Winneburg were first mentioned in a 1304 deed, they also acquired the estates of the neighbouring Beilstein Castle in 1362. In the following decades the Lords of Winneburg and Beilstein were forced to give their lands in pawn to the Archbishops of Trier, who after a feud, finally seized the property in 1488, only to lend it back as a fiefdom a few years later.

After the Winneburg-Beilstein line had become extinct, the descendants of the Trier archbishop Lothar von Metternich (1551–1623) from 1635 on called themselves Freiherren von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein and were elevated to Imperial counts in 1679. The last reigning Count Franz George Karl, lost his territory to France when that country officially annexed the left bank of the Rhine following the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville. He was however compensated in the course of the German mediatization with the possession of secularized Ochsenhausen Abbey and with the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803.

According to the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, Winneburg-Beilstein together with the Rhineland fell to Prussia in 1815. Franz George Karl's son, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich took the chance to buy the ruin of Winneburg Castle in 1832 but never rebuilt it.

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Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Prince-bishops|

* Cambrai (until 1678)
* Corvey1
* Liège
* Minden2
* Münster
* Osnabrück
* Paderborn
* Utrecht (until 1548)
* Verden (until 1648)

The Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle (red) within the Holy Roman Empire (white) after 1548

Prince-abbots|

* Corvey2
* Essen
* Herford
* Kornelimünster
* Stavelot–Malmedy
* Thorn
* Werden

Secular|

* Arenberg
* Cleves with Mark
* East Frisia1
* Jülich–Berg
* Guelders (until 1548)
* Luxemburg (until 1548)
* Minden1
* Moers1
* Nassau-Dillenburg1
* Verden1

Counts / Lords|

| From 1500|

* Bentheim
* Bronkhorst (until 1719)
* Diepholz
* Drenthe (until 1548)
* East Frisia (until 1667)
* Groningen (until 1548)
* Guelders (until 1548)
* Horne3 (until 1614)
* Hoya
* Lingen3
* Lippe
* Manderscheid (until 1546)
* Moers (until 1541)
* Nassau
* Diez
* Hadamar
* Dillenburg (until 1664)
* Oldenburg
* Overijssel (until 1548)
* Pyrmont
* Ravensberg3
* Reichenstein
* Rietberg
* Salm-Reifferscheid
* Sayn
* Schaumburg
* Tecklenburg
* Virneburg
* Wied
* Winneburg and Beilstein
* Zutphen (until 1548)

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From 1792|

* Anholt
* Blankenheim and Gerolstein
* Gemen
* Gimborn
* Gronsfeld
* Hallermund
* Holzappel
* Kerpen-Lommersum
* Myllendonk
* Reckheim
* Schleiden
* Wickrath
* Wittem
* Utrecht (until 1548)

Status
uncertain|

* Delmenhorst
* Fagnolle
* Schaumburg
* Hesse
* Lippe
* Spiegelberg
* Steinfurt

Cities|

* Aachen
* Cologne
* Dortmund
* Duisburg?
* Herford?
* Verden (until 1648)
* Warburg?

1 from 1648  2 until 1648  3 without seat in Imperial Diet ? status uncertain

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon

* Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish
* Unencircled territories

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* United States
* Israel

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