| Name
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Type
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Imperial circle
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Imperial diet
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History
|
 Zähringen
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Duchy
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n/a
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n/a
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962: First mentioned; Gau Counts in the Breisgau
1092: Claimed the Duchy of Swabia
1098: Renounced Swabia; assumed the title Duke of Zähringen
1112: Side line Baden founded
1152: Partitioned into itself and Teck
1218: Extinct; dispersed between numerous families and free cities
|
 Zeeland
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County
|
Burg
|
n/a
|
1012: Given to Flanders
1167: West Zeeland in condomonium between Flanders and Holland
1256: West Zeeland to Holland
1303: West Zeeland to Hainaut; rest to Namur
1323: All to Hainaut
1432: To Burgundy
1477: To the Burgundian Netherlands
1556: To the Spanish Netherlands
1581: Joined the Netherlands
1648: Left the Empire as part of the Netherlands
|
 Zell am Harmersbach
|
Imperial City
|
Swab
|
SW
|
1139: First mentioned; to Zähringen
1218: To Swabia
1256: To Hohengeroldseck and Strasbourg
1333: To Baden
14th Century: Free Imperial City
1718: Harmersbach made Free Imperial Valley
1803: To Baden
|
 Ziegenhain
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
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1148: First mentioned
1258: Partitioned into itself and Nidda
1333: Acquired Nidda
1450: Extinct; succession dispute between Hesse and Hohenlohe-Weikersheim. Ziegenhain was occupied by Hesse despite the legal succession of Hohenlohe
1495: Confirmed to Hesse with compensation paid to Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
|
 Zimmern
|
Lordship
1538: County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1080: First mentioned
1354: Acquired Meßkirch
1415: Acquired Wildenstein
1445: Partitioned into itself and Zimmern-Herrenzimmern
1462: Acquired Oberndorf
1488: To Werdenberg-Sigmaringen
1503: Restored
1508: Partitioned into Zimmern-Meßkirch and Zimmern-Wildenstein
1575: Reunited by Zimmern-Meßkirch
1594: Extinct; Oberndorf to Austria, Wald to Rottweil, rest to Helfenstein-Gundelfingen
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| Zimmern-Herrenzimmern
|
Lordship
1538: County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1445: Partitioned from Zimmern
1512: To William Werner of Zimmern
1538: HRE Count
1575: Extinct; to Zimmern-Meßkirch
|
| Zimmern-Meßkirch
|
Lordship
1538: County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1508: Partitioned from Zimmern
1538: HRE Count
1575: Renamed to Zimmern
|
| Zimmern-Wildenstein
|
Lordship
1538: County
|
Swab
|
SC
|
1508: Partitioned from Zimmern; originally at Oberndorf
1514: Acquired sole rule of Wildenstein
1538: HRE Count
1554: Extinct; to Zimmern-Meßkirch
|
 Zollern
|
Lordship
1111: County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1061: First mentioned
1111: HRE Count
c. 1144: Partitioned into itself and Hohenberg
1192: Acquired Nuremberg
1218: Partitioned into itself and Nuremberg
1262: Acquired Schalksburg
1288: Partitioned into Hohenzollern and Zollern-Schalksburg
|
| Zollern-Schalksburg
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1288: Partitioned from Zollern
1403: Sold to Württemberg
1408: Extinct
|
 Zug
|
Imperial Valley
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1264: All to Habsburg
1352: Joined the Swiss Confederation
1415: Free Imperial Valley
1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland
|
 Zürich
|
Imperial City
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
853: To Fraumünster Abbey
1063: Under advocacy of Lenzburg
1173: Under advocacy of Zähringen
1218: Free Imperial City
1351: Joined the Swiss Confederation
1440: Expelled from the Swiss Confederacy
1450: Re-admitted
1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland
|
 Zutphen
|
County
|
Burg
|
n/a
|
Lordship
1101: County
1025: Mentioned; fief of Lower Lotharingia
1046: Made fief of the Bishopric of Utrecht
1101: HRE Count
1118: Extinct in male line
1138: To Guelders
1371: To Jülich-Guelders
1423: To Guelders
1538: To Jülich-Cleves-Berg
1543: To the Spanish Netherlands
1579: Joined the Netherlands
1648: Left the Empire as part of the Netherlands
|
 Zweibrücken
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
c. 1182: Partitioned from Saarbrücken
1263: Side line Zweibrücken-Eberstein created
1286: Partitioned into Zweibrücken-Zweibrücken and Zweibrücken-Bitsch
|
| Zweibrücken-Bitsch
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1286: Partitioned from Zweibrücken; originally at Lemberg
1297: Acquired Bitsch
1485: Side line Zweibrücken-Bitsch-Ochsenstein established
1559: Acquired Ochsenstein
1570: Extinct; to Hanau-Lichtenberg in succession dispute with Leiningen-Westerburg-Leiningen
1572: To Lorraine
1573: Leiningen claim sold to Lorraine
1604: Lemberg given to Hanau-Lichtenberg
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| Zweibrücken-Bitsch-Ochsenstein
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1485: Created when Henry I of Zweibrücken-Bitsch acquired Ochsenstein by marriage
1559: Extinct; to Zweibrücken-Bitsch
|
| Zweibrücken-Eberstein
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1263: Created when Simon I of Zweibrücken acquired half of Eberstein Elder Line
1314: Extinct; to the Bishopric of Speyer
|
| Zweibrücken-Zweibrücken
|
County
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
1286: Partitioned from Zweibrücken
1385: Zweibrücken sold to the Palatinate
1394: Extinct; remaining territory to Zweibrücken-Bitsch
|
 Zwiefalten
|
Abbacy
|
Swab
|
SP
|
1089: Abbey established; to Achalm
1098: To Urach
1250: To Fürstenberg
1265: To Württemberg
1750: Imperial immediacy; joined the Swabian Prelates
1802: To Württemberg; secularised and suppressed
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