Lippe Lordship

This article is about the specific polity Lippe Lordship 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 1124: Lippe Lordship is mentioned for the first time in 1123.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1238: Rietberg County was formed when Conrad I of Cuijk Arnsberg acquired Rietberg from Lippe.
January 1301: In the 13th century, the noble lords of Lippe ruled in Enger, who were given their power by Henry the Lion and from that point on worked as bailiffs.
January 1366: The Lippe Lordship acquired Schwalenberg.
January 1406: The Lordship of Lippe ecquired Sternberg.
January 1409: In 1408 Enger fell to the County of Ravensberg.

Disestablishment

January 1530: Establishment of the County of Lippe.