Note that in the "Circle" column, "n/a" denotes a state that had ceased to exist before the Reichsreform. Swabian Bench of the Council of Imperial Cities Rhenish Bench of the Council of Imperial Cities Secular Bench of the Council of Princes (individual voice) Spiritual Bench of the Council of Princes (individual voice)
The "Bench" column shows where the state was represented in the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag).Ĭouncil of Electors, the exclusive elite formally electing the Holy Roman Emperor. The "Circle" column shows the Imperial Circle ( Reichskreis) that the state belonged to. There is also a separate list of Free Imperial Cities, as well as a list of participants in the Imperial Diet as of 1792. It is sorted alphabetically and split into separate articles linked in the box below.įree Imperial Cities - Imperial abbeys - Imperial Knights - Imperial Villages While any such list could never be definitive, the list attempts to be as comprehensive as possible. 4.5 Territories of new princely families. 4.3 Territories of old princely families. 3.1 Estate of the Empire ( Reichsstand). For a more complete history of the empire, see Holy Roman Empire. The lists themselves can be accessed via the alphabetical navigation box at the top of this page each letter will lead the reader to a page where states of the Empire which began with that letter are listed. This page does not directly contain the list, but it discusses the format of the various lists, and offers some background to understand the complex organisation of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 18th century, the Holy Roman Empire consisted of approximately 1,800 such territories, the majority being tiny estates owned by the families of Imperial Knights. The states that composed the Empire, while enjoying a unique form of territorial authority (called Landeshoheit) that granted them many attributes of sovereignty, were never fully sovereign states as the term is understood today. The Holy Roman Empire was a complex political entity that existed in central Europe for most of the medieval and early modern periods and was generally ruled by a German-speaking Emperor. This list of states which were part of the Holy Roman Empire includes any territory ruled by an authority that had been granted imperial immediacy, as well as many other feudal entities such as lordships, sous-fiefs and allodial fiefs. This was the greatest territorial extent the HRE ever reached. Imperial and directly held Hohenstaufen lands in the Empire are shown in bright yellow. The Hohenstaufen-ruled Holy Roman Empire ( c.
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