Rhenish Franconia - Successor States of Western Franconia

Successor States of Western Franconia

The following are the most important of the states that had formed on the territory of Western (or Rhenish) Franconia by the 13th century:

  • Archbishopric of Mainz
  • Bishopric of Speyer
  • Abbacy of Hersfeld
  • Margraviate of Baden
  • County Palatine of the Rhine
  • County of Calw
  • Landgraviate of Hesse
  • County of Katzenelnbogen
  • County of Leiningen
  • County of Nassau
  • County of Nidda
  • County of Wetterau
  • Raugraviate
  • Rhinegraviate
  • County of Solms
  • County of Sponheim
  • County of Veldenz
  • County of Waldeck
  • County of Weissenburg
  • County of Wied
  • Wild County
  • County of Wittgenstein
  • County of Ziegenhain
  • County of Zweibrücken

Read more about this topic:  Rhenish Franconia

Famous quotes containing the words successor, states and/or western:

    The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
    Irving Layton (b. 1912)

    But go, and if you listen she will call,
    Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—
    Luke Havergal.
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)