List of surveys in the imperial princes
The list of elevations into the imperial prince records the award of the title imperial prince by the Roman-German emperor in the early modern period up to the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1806 .
history
In 1521 the spiritual imperial princes included the four archbishops of Magdeburg, Salzburg, Besançon and Bremen as well as 46 bishops, whose number was reduced to two archbishops and 22 bishops by the Reformation by 1792.
In contrast, the number of secular imperial princes more than doubled. In 1521 there were only 24 secular imperial princes. At the end of the 18th century, however, 61 secular imperial princes with voting rights in the imperial princes' council . In 1582 the number of imperial princes was restricted by dynastic coincidences at the Augsburg Reichstag and the imperial estate was bound to the territory of the prince (principality).
In addition, there were an increasing number of imperial titular princes, who - without attaining imperial status - were only granted the title of prince by the emperor as an increase in status, without any political rights associated with it. These new princes tried to acquire territories immediately under the Empire. This has not always been successful.
(Titular) imperial princes, arranged according to the year in which the title was conferred
- 1515 Mikołaj Radziwiłł (by Emperor Maximilian I )
- 1529 Wolter von Plettenberg
- 1524 Augustin (Monaco)
- 1547 Mikołaj Radziwiłł Czarny
- 1566 Peter II Erdődy
- 1576 Margaretha von der Marck-Arenberg
- 1594 Peter Ernst II von Mansfeld
- 1600 Abraham II of Dohna
- 1623 Johann Georg (Hohenzollern-Hechingen) ; Johann (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) ; Zdeněk Vojtěch Popel von Lobkowitz ; Maximilian of Liechtenstein ; Gundaker of Liechtenstein ; Philipp Otto zu Salm ; Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg ; Rheingrafen
- 1624 Dietrichstein (noble family) ; Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein
- 1637 Dönhoff
- 1652 Johann Moritz (Nassau-Siegen)
- 1653 Auersperg
- 1654 Cirksena ; Nassau-Dillenburg
- 1655 Heinrich Casimir II. (Nassau-Dietz)
- 1664 Hermann Egon (Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg) and his brothers
- 1670 Johann Adolf I. zu Schwarzenberg
- 1674 Counts of Oettingen-Oettingen ; Christine Luise from Oettingen-Oettingen
- 1682 Johann Caspar von Ampringen ; Georg Friedrich (Waldeck-Eisenberg)
- 1684 Siegmund von Dietrichstein
- 1687 Paul I. Esterházy de Galantha
- 1689 Albrecht (Saxe-Coburg) ; Leopold Philipp Montecuccoli
- 1697 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ; Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- 1707 Leopold Mathias Sigismund von Lamberg
- 1711 Maximilian Karl (Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort) ; Johann Leopold Count Trautson ; Weißpriach (noble family)
- 1720 Simon Heinrich Adolf (Lippe)
- 1712 Friedrich Anton Ulrich (Waldeck-Pyrmont)
- 1723 Joseph (Fürstenberg-Stühlingen) ; Beauvau (noble family)
- 1736 Horn (Dutch-Belgian noble family)
- 1742 Friedrich Carl zu Stolberg-Gedern ; Georg zu Solms-Braunfels ; Ernst zu Solms-Braunfels ; Georg Friedrich zu Solms-Braunfels
- 1747 Kinsky
- 1752 Sułkowski
- 1763 Hieronymus von Colloredo (Archbishop)
- 1764 Friedrich II of Hohenlohe- (Neuenstein-) Oehringen ; Ludwig (Hohenlohe-Langenburg) ; Johann Joseph von Khevenhüller-Metsch
- 1767 Clary and Aldringen
- 1769 couple (noble family) ; Thurn and Taxis
- 1774 Alexandre-Marie-Léonor de Saint-Mauris de Montbarrey
- 1777 Vinzenz Joseph von Schrattenbach
- 1778 Heinrich XI. (Reuss-Greiz)
- 1790 Schönburg (noble family) ; Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg ; Reuss-Lobenstein ; Vincent of Orsini-Rosenberg
- 1803 Fugger-Babenhausen ; Sinzendorf (noble family) ; Joseph Anton von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee ; Waldburg-Zeil
- 1804 Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein ; Friedrich Carl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein ; Windisch-Graetz
- 1805 Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff
- 1806 Reuss House
literature
- Ernst Schubert : Princely rule and territory in the late Middle Ages. Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-55043-8
- Axel Gotthard : The Old Empire 1495–1806. Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-15118-6
- Helmut Neuhaus : The Empire in the Early Modern Age. 2nd edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56729-2
- Hermann Conrad : German legal history , vol. 1: Early times and the Middle Ages; Vol. 2: Modern times until 1806, Karlsruhe 1966
- Dieter Mertens : The Prince. Medieval realities and ideas. Cologne u. a. 1998. In full text as PDF