| Name | Type | Circle | Bench | Formed | Notes |
| Lage | Lordship | | | | |
| Landau | 1201: Imperial City | Upp Rhen | | | 1515: Member of the Décapole
1648: Annexed to France
1815: Annexed to Bavaria |
| Landsberg | Principality | | | | |
| Landsberg-Osterland | Margraviate | | | 1032 | 1291: Annexed to Meißen |
| Langwies | Jurisdiction | | | | |
| Laurenburg | County | | | 1093 | 1197: Annexed to Nassau |
| Lauenburg | 1180: Duchy of Brunswick and Lauenburg | | | | 1260: Division of Ascanians into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe Wittenberg
1689: Inherited by the Principality of Luneburg
1714: To Electorate of Hanover
1803: To Prussia
1815: To Duke of Holstein and King of Denmark
1864: To Prussia |
| Lausanne | Bishopric
1270: Prince-Bishopric | | | 1011 | 1536: Secularized by Bern |
| Lausanne | Imperial City | | | 1434 | 1536: Conquered by Bern |
Lavant
St. Andra | 1228: Bishopric
Prince-Bishopric | Aust | | c1320 | Dietrich, 1st Prince-Bishop, 1318-1332
Since 22nd Bishop, Theobald Schweinbeck, 1446-1463, bishops borne title of Prince |
| Lebus | Bishopric | | | | |
Leiningen
Count of Leiningen & Dagsburg, Lord of Aspremont, Oberstein, Bruch, Bürgel & Reipoltskirchen, etc. | 1128: County | | | early 12th Century | 1128: 1st mention of "Count of Leiningen"
1220: 1st line of Counts of Leiningen extinct; passed by marriage to Counts of Saarbrucken
1220: Acquired Lordship of Hardenburg from Saarbrucken inheritance
1225/1241: Inherited HRE County of Dagsburg
1310: Partitioned into Leiningen-Dachsburg (extinct 1467) and Leiningen-Leiningen
1312: Acquired Landvogt in Lower Alsace
1444: Secured from Emperor Frederick III rank of Landgrave in Alsace
1467: Passed by female succession to Lords of Westerburg (Leiningen-Westerburg line) |
Leiningen-Billigheim
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Leiningen-Dachsburg
Leiningen-Dagsburg | 1593-1688, 1658-1709: County | Upp Rhen | | | 1310: Partitioned from Leiningen
1593: Paritioned from Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg
1688: Line extinct
Partitioned from Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim
1709: Line extinct |
Leiningen-Hartenburg
Leiningen-Hardenburg
Prince of Leiningen, Count-Palatine of Mosbach, Lord of Miltenberg, Amorbach, Düren, Bischofsheim, Hardheim & Lauda, etc. | County
1779: HRE Principality | Upp Rhen | | | 1343: Partitioned from Leiningen-Dachsburg
1466: Acquired Lords in Lorraine
1467: Inherited Dagsburg and chaned its name to Leiningen-Dagsburg |
| Leiningen-Leiningen | County | | | 1310: Partitioned from Leiningen | 1467: Annexed to Westerburg |
Leiningen-Neuburg
Count of Leiningen, Lord of Herzbolzheim, Count of Dagsburg & Aspremont | | | | | |
Leiningen-Westerburg
Count of Leiningen, Lord of Westerburg, Grünstadt, Oberbrunn & Forbach | 1467: County | | | | 1705: Division into Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen and Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen |
| Lemgo | Imperial Free City | Low Rhen | RH | | Annexed to Lippe |
| Leuchtenberg | 1196: Landgraviate
1376: HRE Landgraviate
1440: HRE Princely Landgraviate | Bav | | early 12th Century | 1119: Acquired by Lordship of Waldeck through marriage
1158: 1st mention of Count of Leuchtenberg
1209: Division into Waldeck and Leuchtenberg
1366: Territorial division (Vesten zu Leuchtenberg/Pfreimd and Pleystein/Reichenstein/Grafenwohr
Acquired County of Hals
1476: Division of County of Hals
1486: Hals sold to Counts of Aichberg
1500: Bavarian Circle
1582: HRE Council of Princes
1646: Male line extinct
Sold Leuchtenberg and Waldeck to Bavaria
1707-1708: To B. of Bamberg
1708: To HRE Princes of Lamberg
1770: Annexed to Bavaria |
| Leutkirch im Allgäu | Imperial Free City | Swab | SW | | 1803: Annexed to Bavaria
1810: Annexed to Württemberg |
Leyen
HRE Prince of and at Leyen & Hohengeroldseck, Baron of Adendorf, Lord of Bliescastel, Burrweiler, Münchweiler,Orterbach, Niewern, Saffig, Ahrenfels, Bongard, Simpelfeld, etc. | Lordship
1653: HRE Barony
1711: HRE County
1806: Prince | | | c1296 | c1420: Partitioned into Neustadt and Saffig
1667 owners of immediate knightly possession of Burrweiler
1705: immediate Lord of Hohengeroldseck
1711: Imperial Estate |
| Lichtenberg | 1458: HRE County | | | | 1206: 1st mention of Lichtenberg family
1246: 1st mention of Lichtenberg castle
1249: Secured Imperial Advocacy of Strassburg
1480: Male line extinct; territories passed, through females, to Counts of Hanau and Counts of Zweibrucken-Bitsch
1570: Portion of extinct Counts of Zweibrucken-Bitsch inherited by Hanau
1817: Became an exclave of Saxe-Coburg
1834: Bought by Prussia |
| Lichtenthal | Abbacy | | | | |
Liechtenstein
Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau & Jägerndorf, Count of Rietberg, etc | 1608: HRE Princely rank for Liechtenstein family
1712: Principality of Liechtenstein
1719: HRE Principality | Swab | | | 1699: Purchased Lordship of Schellenberg
1707: Admission to College of Princes of Swabia
1712: Purchased County of Vaduz
1713: HRE Council of Princes
1719: Establishment of the Principality of Liechtenstein from Hohenems-Vaduz and Schellenberg<1806>Joined the Confederation of the Rhine
1815: Joined the German Confederation | |
Liège Lüttich
Liege | Bishopric | Low Rhen | EC | 972 | 1793: Council of Princes
1795: Annexed to France |
| Liegnitz | Duchy | | | | |
Ligne
HRE Prince of Ligne & Amblise/Amblia, Margrave of Roubaix/Roubais & Dormans, Count of Fauquemberghe, Baron of Werchin, Beloeil, Antoing, Cisoing, Villiers, Silly & Herzelles; Sovereign of Fagnolles; Lord of Baudour, Wallincourt,& other lands | 1544: HRE County
1601: HRE Principality | | | | 1503: non-immediate Counts of Faucquenberg
Immediate Lords
1770: Counts sof Fagnolles
1786: Estate of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Imperial Circle |
| Limburg (County) | 1242: County of Limburg-Isenburg | | | | 1242-1508: To Counts of (Isenberg) Limburg
1508-1542: Inherited by the Counts of Dhaun-Falkenstein
1542-1592: Passed by marriage to the Counts of Neuenahr-Alpen
1592-1610: Inherited by Bentheim
1610-1626: To Bentheim-Limurg
1626-1629: To Bentheim-Alpen
1629-1817: To Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda
1289: Acquired Altenhof and Styrum
1370: Acquired Neu-Isenburg
1422: Acquired Bedburg
1422: Acquired Hackenbroich
16..: Acquired Aichheim
1640: Acquired Gemen
1664: Acquired a portion of Bronchhorst
Area: 118 km² |
| Limburg-Broich | 1439-1508: County | | | 1439: Partitioned from Limburg-Styrum | 1442; Dukes of Berg gained overlordship from Dukes of Cleves
1449: Counts of Limburg-Broich embroiled in succession dispute with Neuenahr-Alpen over County of Limburg
1449: Shared rule over County of Limburg with Counts of Neuenahr-Alpen
1508: Inherited by Wirich V of Dhaun-Falkenstein who married Amoena of Sayn, adopted heiress of John of Limburg-Broich |
| Limburg-Hohelimburg | 1246-1304: County | | | 1246: Partitioned from Counties of Altena and Isenberg | 1304: United with Limburg-Styrum |
| Limburg | 1106: Duchy | Burg | PR | c1100 | 1155: the Lords of Limburg separated from Lower Lorraine and became independent dukes
1288: Passed to Brabant
1512: Burgundian Circle
1582: HRE Council of Princes
1648: Spain ceded the Counties of Dalhem and Falkenberg and the town of Maastricht to the United Provinces
1714: Southern Limburg passed to the Habsburg dominions of Austrian Netherlands
1794-1814: To France
Area: 118 km² |
Limburg-Styrum
Count of Limburg and Bronckhorst, Lord of Styrum, Wisch, Borkelo and Gemen, Hereditary Banner-Lord of the Principality of Gelderland and the County of Zütphen | 1271: County | | | 1271 | Mediatised in 1806
Several partitions which did not outlast it |
| Limburg-Styrum-Borkelö | 1766: County | | | | |
| Limburg-Styrum-Bronchhorst | 1766: County | | | | |
| Limburg-Styrum-Bronchhorst-Borkelö | 1644: County | | | | 1644: Partitioned from Limburg-Styrum
1766: Division into Limburg-Styrum-Borkelo and Limburg-Styrum-Bronchhorst |
| Limburg-Styrum-Gemen | 1644-1782: HRE County | | | 1644: Partitioned from Limburg-Styrum | 1657: Division into Limburg-Styrum-Gemen and Limburg-Styrum-Iller-Aichheim
Bench of Counts of Westphalia
1782: To Limburg-Styrum-Iller-Aichheim |
| Limpurg | County | Franc | | | 1500: Franconian Circle
1806: Mediatised to Wurttemberg |
| Lindau | 810: Abbacy
1466: Princess-Abbess | | | | 1802: Secularized
1804: To Austria
1805: To Bavaria |
| Lindau | 1275: Imperial Free City | Swab | SW | 1274 | 1802: Annexed to Pr. of Bretzenheim
1804: Annexed to Austria
1806: Annexed to Bavaria |
| Lingen | County | Low Rhen | | | 1597: Occupied by Nassau-Orange
1605: To Spain
1633: To Nassau-Orange
1702: Inherited by Prussia |
Lippe
HRE Prince, Count & Noble Lord of Lippe, Count of Schwalenberg & Sternberg, Hereditary Burgrave of Utrecht | 1129: Lordship
1529: Imperial County
1720: Principality | Low Rhen | WE | 1129 | 1536: Partitioned into Lippe-Detmold and Sternberg and Pyrmont
1616: Division into Lippe-Detmold, Lippe-Brake, Lippe-Schwalenberg and Lippe-Alverdissen
1709: Lippe-Brake incorporated into Lippe-Detmold
1749: Lippe-Alverdissen line extinct
1807: Joined the Confederation of the Rhine
1815: Joined the German Confederation
1866: Joined the North German Confederation
1871: Joined the German Empire |
Lippe-Detmold
Prince, Count and Noble Lord of Lippe, Count of Schwalenberg & Sternberg, Hereditary Burgrave of Utrecht | County
1720: Principality
1789: HRE Prince
1918: Free State of Lippe-Detmold | | | 1528: Partitioned from Lippe | |
| Livonia | 1201: Prince-Bishopric | | | | |
| Livonian Order | | | | | 1202: Founded by Albert of Buxhoeveden |
Lobkowitz
Prince Lobkowitz, Duke of Raudnitz, Princely Counts of Sternstein, etc. | 1624: HRE Prince | | | | 1300s: Lobkowitz 1st mentioned
Acquired Princely County of Sternstein
1806: Mediatised to Bavaria
1814: Sternstein sold to Bavaria |
| Lommersum | | | | | Acquired by Schasberg |
Loon
(Looz in French)
Duke and HRE Princely Count of Looz, Hesbaye/Hasbanien/Haspengau, Hoorn/Horne/Hornes, Niel/Nyel, Duke of Corswarem-Looz, Count of Fresing and Nieurlet, Upper-Court-Lord of the City and the Castellany of Cassel, Margrave of Ligny, Tongrinne and Pont-d'Oie, Baron of Longchamps and Cranewyck, Vice-Count of St. Gertrude at Liernu, Lord of the free City of Wavre, the City of Fleurus and the Lordships of Landelis, Bommeree, Denee, St. Marie, Vitry, Grand-Lez, Betisart, Clermont, Veleine, and other places | 1000s: County of Loon | | | 944 | 1366: Annexed to Bp. of Liège |
| Lorraine | 1048: Duchy | Upp Rhen | | | 925: Duchy of Lorraine (Lotharingia) part of the Holy Roman Empire
959: Administrative division into Upper Lorraine (present French Lorraine and Luxemburg) and Lower Lorraine (present Belgium, Brabant and the Netherlands)
1048: Emperor Henry III conferred the Duchy of Upper Lorraine upon Count Gerhard of Alsace
1480: Permanent union of the Duchies of Lorraine and Bar
1473: Counts of Vaudemont inherits Lorraine
1473: Rene II of Lorraine united his maternal inheritance of Lorraine, Bar, Pont-a-Mousson and Guise with his paternal inheritance of Vaudemont, Joinville, Aumale, Mayenne and Elbeouf
1552-1559: French occupation
1552-1559: French occupation
1582: HRE Council of Princes
1633-1659: French occupation
1670-1697: French occupation
1702-1714: French occupation
1736: To France |
| Lorraine-Nomény | Principality (personalist) | n/a | PR | 1736 | 1803: Reichstag seat revoked |
| Lorsch | RA | | | | |
| Losenstein | HRE Lordship | | | | 1629: Line died out |
Lowenstein
HRE Count of Löwenstein, Wertheim, Rochefort, Montaigu, Limpurg, Virneburg, Gaildorf, Supreme Prince of Chassepierre/Chaisepierre, Lord of Scharfeneck, Breuberg, Herbeumont/Herbimont, Neufchâteau | 1494: HRE County
1712: HRE Principality | | | | 1123: Lowenstein founded by the Counts of Calw
?-1281: To a branch of the Counts of Calw
1281: To Habsburgs when German King Rudolph I purchased Lowenstein and gave Lowenstein to his natural son Albert
1441: Sold by Henry, Albert's descendant, to the Elector Palatine of the Rhine Frederick I
Louis II of Lowenstein inherited the County of Wertheim and other lands by marriage and called himself Count of Lowenstein-Wertheim
1806: Mediatized
Area: 53 sq. mi. |
| Lowenstein-Scharfeneck | | | | | |
Löwenstein-Wertheim
HRE Prince of Löwenstein and Wertheim, Count of Rochefort, Montaigu, Supreme Prince of Chassepierre/Chaisepierre, Lord of Scharfeneck, Breuberg, Herbeumont/Herbimont, Neufchâteau, Kerpen and Kasselburg | County
1803: HRE Principality | Franc | | 1574: Coalesced from Löwenstein, Stolberg-Rochefort and Wertheim-Breuberg | 1500: Franconian Circle
1611: Division into Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort and Lowenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg
1806: To the Prince-Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg |
| Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg | 1812: Prince | | | | |
Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
HRE Prince of Löwenstein and Wertheim, Count of Rochefort, Montaigu, Supreme Prince of Chassepierre, Lord of Scharfeneck, Breuberg, Herbeumont, Neufchâteau, Kerpen & Kasselburg | 1712: HRE Principality | | | | |
| Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg | Principality | | | | |
| Lowenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg | | | | 1611: Partition of Lowenstein-Wertheim | 1721: Division into Lowenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (Volradsche Line) and Lowenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (Karlsche Line) |
| Lower Alsace | Landgraviate | | | 731: Partitioned from Alsace | 1358: Annexed to Strasbourg |
| Lower Austria | Duchy | | | 1379: Partitioned from Austria | 1493: Re-annexed to Austria |
| Lower Bavaria | Duchy | | | 1255: Partitioned from Bavaria | 1353: Partitioned into Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Straubing |
| Lower Isenburg | HRE County | El Rhin | | 1218: Partitioned from Isenburg-Isenburg | 1503: Partitioned into Isenburg-Grenzau and Isenburg-Neumagen
1512: Electoral Rhenish Circle
1664: Line died out |
Lower Lotharingia
Lower Lorraine | Duchy | | | 977: Emperor Otto II granted Lower Lorraine as a duchy to Charles, brother of Lothair of France, as a German fief. | 1033: United with Upper Lorraine when Gozelo I succeeded
Superseded by Counts of Leuven (the later Dukes of Brabant) in 1106; without authority since 1190; both Brabant and Guelre based their claim of Archducal rank on being its successor |
| Lower Salm | County | | | 1170: Partitioned from Salm | 1416: Created as Salm-Reifferscheid |
| Lower Schönburg | County | Upp Sax | WT | 1569: Partitioned from Schönburg | Partitioned into Schönburg-Hinterglauchau, Schönburg-Rochsburg and Schönburg-Wechselburg |
Lübeck
Lubeck | Bishopric | Low Sax | EC | | 1793: Council of Princes
1803: Secularised as a principality to Oldenburg |
Lübeck
(Lubeck) | 1226: Imperial Free City | Low Sax | RH | 1188; 1226 | 1810: Annexed to France
1815: Free City
1937: Annexed to Prussia |
Lübeck
Lubeck | Principality | Low Sax | | | |
| Lucerne | Imperial Free City | | | 1415: Split off from Habsburg | 1178: City of Lucerne founded
Owned by Murbach Abbey
1291: To Habsburgs
1332: Member of Swiss Condeferation
1648: Left Empire as member of Swiss Confederation |
Lusatia
Lower Lusatia
Upper Lusatia | 1367: Margraviate of Lower Lusatia
1415: Margraviate | | | | Lower Lusatia
900s: Lower Lusatia formed into a separate march
1034: To Wettin dynasty of Saxony
1117: Partitioned from Lusatia
1131: Annexed to Meißen
1303: Purchased by Margrave of Brandenburg
1368: To Bohemia
1378: To Upper Lusatia
1415: To King of Bohemia
1469-1490: Recognized Matthias Corvinus as their sovereign
1490: To Bohemia again
1526: To Habsburg Austria
1635: Sold to Saxony
1815: To Prussia
Upper Lusatia
1117: Partitioned from Lusatia
1160: Granted by Emperor to Bohemia
1253: To Magrave of Brandenburg
1329: To King of Bohemia
Name of Upper Lusatia changed to Duchy of Gorlitz
1526: To Habsburg Austria
1620: Conquered by Elector of Saxony
1635: Sold to Saxony
1815: To Prussia |
| Lustenau | Imperial Farm | | | | 1814: To Austria |
Luxembourg
Luxemburg
Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Count of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelbogen & Dietz, Burgrave of Hammerstein, Lord of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg & Eppstein | 963: Lord
1059: County
1354: Duchy
1815: Grand Duchy | Burg | PR | 963 | 1139-1189: Union with County of Namur
1364: Acquired County of Chiny
1383-1443: Luxemburg pawned by Emperors to Bohemia and Burgundy
1441: Luxemburg sold to Dukes of Burgundy
1443-1482: To Dukes of Burgundy
1482-1815: To Austrian Habsburgs
1512: Burgundian Circle
1582: HRE Council of Princes
1815: Joined the Confederation of the Rhine
1815-1890: Luxemburg and the Netherlands in personal union under King of the Netherlands |
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