Bentheim County

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Establishment

• January 1183: Bentheim County gains imperial immediacy.

Chronology

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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

• January 1807: Several scattered territories of other German polities were added to the Grand Duchy of Berg, including Berg, Dortmund, Steinfurd, Werden, and Wildenburg.
• January 1808: Bentheim was mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1808.

1.1. War of the First Coalition

Were a series of wars between the Kingdom of France (later the French Republic) and several European Monarchies. The French Revolution had deteriorated the relations of France with the other European countries, that tried several times to invade France in order to crash the revolutionary government.

1.1.1. Flanders Campaign

Was a French military campaign in the Flanders.

• January 1795: On 10 January French general Pichegru ordered a general advance across the frozen river between Zaltbommel and Nijmegen and the allies were forced to retreat behind the Lower Rhine.
• June 1795: Territory evacuated by the French at the end of the Flanders Campaign. The surrender of Luxembourg on 7 June 1795 concluded the French conquest of the Low Countries, thus marking the end of the Flanders Campaign.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

• January 1264: Bentheim Acquired Tecklenburg.
• January 1280: Bentheim Partitioned into Tecklenburg and Bentheim.
• January 1422: The Steinfurt Lordship is acquired by the Bentheim County.
• January 1548: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Reformation.
• January 1601: Limburg-Hohnlimburg became a possession of the counts of Bentheim.

Disestablishment

• January 1808: Bentheim was mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1808.

Selected Sources

• Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 38-39
• Kreins, J. (2003): Histoire du Luxembourg, Paris (France), p. 63