Duchy of Arenberg

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The Duchy of Arenberg was a small sovereign state of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the House of Arenberg and located mainly in what is now western Germany and eastern Belgium.

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Label Occurrences
Duchy of Arenberg canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf duchy
sovereign state
allegiance Holy Roman Emperor
associatedWith Arenberg Castle
borderedBy Duchy of Jülich
Electorate of Cologne
Prince-Bishopric of Liège (de facto influence)
surface form: Prince-Bishopric of Liège
capital Arenberg
coatOfArms Arms of the House of Arenberg
continent Europe
country Holy Roman Empire
currency Reichsthaler
dissolvedIn 1806
dynasty House of Arenberg
elevationToDuchy 1645
endTime 1806
event German mediatization
surface form: Mediatization of German states
governmentType monarchy
hasTitleHolder Duke of Arenberg
historicalEra Early modern period
Napoleonic era
language French
German
locatedInPresentDay Belgium
Germany
locatedInRegion Eifel region
surface form: Eifel

Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle
nobleFamily Arenberg family
nobleRank duchy
nobleRankGrantedBy Holy Roman Emperor
partOf Holy Roman Empire
predecessor County of Arenberg
presentInModernState Limburg (Belgium)
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Wallonia
religion Roman Catholicism
ruledBy House of Arenberg
rulingHouseOrigin Arenberg family from the Eifel region
sovereignty immediate to the Emperor
startTime 1645
status immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire
successor First French Empire
surface form: French Empire

Belgium
surface form: Kingdom of Belgium

Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of the Netherlands
titleCreatedFor Philippe-François de Ligne-Arenberg

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Subject: Duchy of Arenberg
Description of subject: The Duchy of Arenberg was a small sovereign state of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the House of Arenberg and located mainly in what is now western Germany and eastern Belgium.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Prince-Bishopric of Münster successor Duchy of Arenberg