Polity County of Lippe

This article is about the specific polity County of Lippe and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a lordship, and then a county and a principality, of the Holy Roman Empire that whose core territory was in modern-day North Rhine-Westphalia.

Establishment

  • January 1530: Establishment of the County of Lippe.

Chronology

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1. European wars of religion

Were a series of wars in Europe (and the overseas possessions of European countries) the 16th, 17th and early 18th that started after the Protestant Reformation. Although the immediate causes of the wars were religious, the motives were complex and also included territorial ambitions.

1.1. Thirty Years' War

Was a war that took place mainly in central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war began as a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestant in the Holy Roman Empire but then escalated into a conflict for the hegemony in Europe between Habsburg Spain and Austria, Sweden and France.

1.1.1. Swedish Period

Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.

  • April 1633: Count Peter Melander of Holzappel's Hessians take Paderborn.

1.1.2. Franco-Swedish Period

Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

1.1.2.1. North German Front (Sweden)

Was the north German front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

  • November 1637: After the death of Swedish King Ferdinand II, his son and successor Ferdinand III brought the Swedish troops back to Pomerania, leaving the territories occupied by Sweden in Germany.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • October 1720: The County of Lippe is elevated to the rank of principality.

Disestablishment

  • October 1720: The County of Lippe is elevated to the rank of principality.

Selected Sources

  • Schmidt, G. (2006): Der Dreißigjährige Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 65