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  • Title: Count Palatine of the Rhine, Arch-Steward and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
  • 945: Palatinate of Lorraine
  • 1095: County Palatinate of the Rhine
  • 1214: County Palatinate went to Bavarian Wittelsbach by inheritance
  • 1356: HRE Prince-Elector
  • 1410: Partitioned into Electorate of the Palatinate, Upper Palatinate or Palatinate-Amberg, Palatinate-Mosbach and Palatinate-Zweibrücken
  • 1448: Palatinate-Mosbach line extinct; reunited with Electorate of the Palatinate
  • 1499: Upper Palatinate line extinct; united with Electorate of the Palatinate
  • 1582: HRE Council of Princes
  • 1610: Partitioned into itself and Palatinate-Simmern
  • 1623: Electoral dignity transferred to Bavaria
  • 1628: Incorporated into Bavaria
  • 1648: New electoral seat granted to Palatinate
  • 1777: Inherited by Bavaria
  • 1792: In Council of Princes
  • 1803: Mediatized
  • 1803: Incorporated into Bavaria

Electorate of Bavaria (See under "Kingdom")

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Electorate of Brandenburg

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  • Titles: King in Prussia; Margrave of Brandenburg; Sovereign Prince of Orange; Duke in of Magdeburg, Kleve, Jülich, Berg, Szczecin, Pomerania, the Kashubs, the Wends, in Silesia of Krosno; Burgrave of Nuremberg; Prince of Halberstadt, Minden, Kammin; Count of Hohenzollern, Ruppin, the Mark, Ravensberg, Hohenstein, Lingen, Mörs, Buren, Leerdam; Margrave of the Veere, Flushing; Lord of Ravenstein, the Lands of Lebork, Bytow, Arlay, Breda. [1]
  • 1792: In Council of Princes

Electorate of Cologne

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  • (Köln)
  • 1356: Prince-Elector
  • 1792: In Council of Princes

Electorate of Hesse-Kassel

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  • 1864: 7699 sq. mi.; 745-063
  • 1567: Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
  • 1606: Langraves became administrators of Abbey of Hersfeld
  • 1637-1663: Landgrave William VI
  • 1648: Acquired County of Schaumburg and Abbey of Hersfeld (Treaty of Westphalia)
  • 1730-1751: Landgrave Frederick I
  • 1736: Frederick I inherited County of Hanau-Munzenberg whose Hanau line died out
  • 1792: In Council of Princes
  • 1803: Electorate of Hesse-Kassel

Electorate of Mainz

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  • 1356: Prince-Elector
  • 1792: In Council of Princes

Electorate of Salzburg

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Electorate of Saxony (See under "Kingdom")

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  • 1356: Prince-Elector
  • 1792: In Council of Princes

Electorate of Württemberg (See under "Kingdom")

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