Knight's Canton of Lower Rhine
The knight canton Niederrhein (contemporary Niederrheinstrom ) was a knight canton within the knightly circle Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern times until the dissolution in 1801. The office was in Koblenz .
The free imperial knighthood in south-west Germany has been divided into a Rhenish, Franconian and Swabian knightly circle, which in turn consisted of different cantons. Although they were directly imperial , the cooperation had no imperial estate . The knight circle on the Rhine river was divided into the "places" or cantons of the Upper Rhine Current , Middle Rhine Current and Lower Rhine Current. With the smallest area and the smallest proportion of the population, the Rhenish cantons represented the weakest element in the organized imperial knighthood.
With the French occupation and the Treaty of Luneville in 1801, the lords of the knightly canton of Lower Rhine fell to France.
Members
In addition to imperial knightly families in the narrower sense, the canton also included barons, other nobles and even monasteries. This could be because the families later experienced noble elevations or if parts of the property consisted of former imperial knighthood rulers.
Members included the Barons von Breidbach, the Lordship of Schweppenhausen, the Lords of Adendorf, Ahrenthal , Arenfels, Blieskastel , Burgfriede, Clodt zu Ehrenberg, the Lords of Dalberg , the Lordship of Ehrenburg , the Barons von Fürstenwarther , the Barons of Heddesdorf, the Barons von Hees, the Imperial Knights of Hohenfeld, the Imperial Rule of Hüttersdorf, the Rule of Illingen , the Barons of Ingelheim , the Barons of Kesselstatt , the Barons of Kerpen, the Barons of Breiten-Landenberg, the Barons of von der Leyen , the Lords of Lösnich , the monastery Marienberg, the Ganerbschaft Martinstein, the rule Medelsheim, the rule Münchweiler, the barons von Reifenberg , the imperial knights Requile, the rule Scharfeneck , the barons von Schmidtburg zu Weiler or the family von Kellenbach.
literature
- Anton Friedrich Büsching : Neue Erdbeschreigung, third part, third volume, 1771, p. 610 ff ( Google Books )
- Georg Friedrich Böhn: Inventory of the archive of the Lower Rhine Imperial Knighthood. Koblenz 1971 (publications of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Archives Administration, vol. 11).
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 4th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35865-9 , p. 421.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Godsey: Ritteradel , p. 256.