Polity Bar Duchy

This article is about the specific polity Bar Duchy 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 principality of the Holy Roman Empire. It was elevated to a duchy in 1354.

Establishment

  • January 1355: In 1354 the County of Bar was raised to a duchy.
  • January 1355: 1354: Duke in France; HRE Margrave.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1369: In 1368 Longwy was ceded to the Duke of Luxembourg.
  • January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.
  • January 1379: Longwy returned to the Duke of Bar in 1378.

Disestablishment

  • January 1420: The German half of the Duchy of Bar was reunited with the Duchy of Lorraine in 1419.

Selected Sources

  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31