Polity Salza Lordship

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Was a lordship of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1221: Based on Gustav Droysen's Holy Roman Empire Map at the time of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1347: The city of Salza was besieged and destroyed in 1346 because of a property dispute between the Landgrave of Thuringia, Friedrich II, and the Archbishop of Mainz, Heinrich von Virneburg (Thuringian Count War). The are fall into the possession of Thuringia.

Selected Sources

  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 26-27