(also called Fürsterzstift or Erztift Salzburg)

(also called Fürsterzstift or Erztift Besançon)

(also called Hochstift Bamberg)

(also called Hochstift Würzburg)

(also called Hochstift Eichstätt)

(also called Hochstift Passau)

(also called Hochstift Freising)

(also called Hochstift Regensburg)

(also called Hochstift Konstanz)

(also called Hochstift Augsburg)

(also called Hochstift Chur)

(14th century lost of Grafschaften Chiavenna and Bormio to Herzogtum Mailand and some areas to Grafschaft Tirol; 1367-1424 lost of nearly all Herrschaften, Gerichte, Kloster and villages to the Freistaat Drei Bünde)

(also called Hochstift Worms)

(also called Hochstift Speyer)

(also called Hochstift Straßburg)

(also called Hochstift Basel)

(Southern Jura since the middle of the 14th century close ties to the Alte Eidgenossenschaft)

(also called Hochstift Sitten)

(since 1417 mit Wallis Verbündeter/zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(also called Hochstift Lausanne)

(also called Hochstift Genf)

(also called Hochstift Metz)

(also called Hochstift Toul)

(also called Hochstift Verdun)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Kempten)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Sankt Gallen)

(1180 City of Sankt Gallen was separated and became Reichsstadt)

(1451 Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Disentis)

(1395 joining the Oberer Bund, 1497 with the Oberer Bund Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft; but still independend Imperial Principality)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Einsiedeln)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Kreuzlingen)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Buchau)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Ottobeuren)

(1356 loss of the rang Gefürstet)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Fulda)

(also called Fürstabtei or Fürststift Prüm)

(also called Fürststift Murbach)

(also called Fürststift Hersfeld)

(13. Jahrhundert elevation to Gefürstete Reichspropstei)

(also called Ritterstift Odenheim, Chorherrenstift Odenheim, Kollegialstift Odenheim (zu Bruchsal))

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Sankt Emmeran)

(also called Reichsstift Niedermünster)

(also called Reichsstift Obermünster)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Niedernburg)

(1061 Loss of imperial immediacy and subordination to the bishopric of Passau)

(also called Reichsstift Berchtesgaden)

(1380 Elevation to Reichspropstei)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Waldsassen)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Kaisheim or Kaisersheim)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Kempten)

(1213 Elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei Kempten)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Ellwangen)

(1460 Elevation to Fürstpropstei Ellwangen)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Salem)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Weingarten)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Ochsenhausen)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Elchingen)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Ursberg)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Roggenburg)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Rot an der Rot)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Weißenau)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Schussenried)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Petershausen)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Gengenbach)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Heggbach)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Gutenzell)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Rottenmünster)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Baindt)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Reichenau)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift St. Blasien)

(1361 Loss of imperial immediacy, under Austrian sovereignty)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift St. Peter af dem Schwarzwald)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Schuttern)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Königsbronn)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Maulbronn)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Schaffhausen)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Disentis)

(About 1050 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Einsiedeln)

(1274 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Kreuzlingen)

(1415 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Pfäfers)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Pfäfers)

(1095 Loss of imperial immediacy)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Sankt Johann im Thurtal)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Stein am Rhein)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Großcomburg)

(1488 Elevation to Reichspropstei)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Frauenchiemsee)

(1201 Loss of imperial immediacy and incorporated into Erbistum Salzburg)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Frauenchiemsee)

(1062 Loss of imperial immediacy and incorporated into Erbistum Salzburg)

(also called Reichsstift Lindau)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Ebersberg)

(nach 1300 incorporated into Bayern)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Ottobeuren)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Ottobeuren)

(1299 elavation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei Ottobeuren)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Schöntal)

(1495 Loss of imperial immediacy; subordinated to Erzbistum Mainz)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Fulda)

(1220 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei Fulda)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Prüm)

(1222 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei Prüm)

(also called Reichsstift Kaufungen)

(also called Reichskloster Kaufungen)

(1089 Loss of imperial immediacy)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Murbach)

(1228 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Münster im Gregoriental)

(also called Reichskloster or Reichsstift Hersfeld)

(1220 elevation to Gefürstete Reichsabtei)

(also called Herzogtum Straubing-Holland, Niederbayern-Straubing, Bayern-Straubing)

(1429 extinct; division between Burgund, Bayern-Landshut, Bayern-Ingolstadt and Bayern-München )

(1447 Reunification with Bayern-Landshut)

(1392 divided into Bayern-Landshut, Bayern-Ingolstadt, Bayern-München)

(1353 division of the state into Herzogtümer Bayern-Landshut and Straubing-Holland)

(1349 division of the state into Herzogtum Oberbayern und Herzogtum Niederbayern)

(1363 extinct; incorporated into Herzogtum Bayern-Landshut)

(1349 division of the state into Herzogtum Oberbayern und Herzogtum Niederbayern)

(1328 Fürsterzbistum became idependent from Herzogtum Niederbayern)

(1340 Reunification with Herzogtum Oberbayern to Herzogtum Bayern)

(1313 Reunification of the Herzogtümer Oberbayern and Bayern-Ingolstadt)

(1310 Separation of Herzogtum Bayern-Ingolstadt, 1329 secession of Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein and part of the Nordgau)

(1340 Reunification with Herzogtum Niederbayern to Herzogtum Bayern)

(976 secession of Herzogtum Kärnten, 1180 secession of Herzogtum Steiermark)

(1255 division of the state into Herzogtum Oberbayern mit Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein und Herzogtum Niederbayern)

(at that time called Wirtemberg)

(1248 extinct, incorporated into Herzogtum Bayern)

(1342 sold to Grafschaft Württemberg)

(1306 Division of inheritance in Markgrafschaft Baden-Hachberg and Hachberg-Sausenberg)

(1415 Sold to Markgrafschaft Baden)

(1212 Separation of the Markgrafschaft Baden-Hachberg)

(also called Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach)

(1420 reunited with Fürstentum Ansbach and the land went back to Burggrafschaft Nürnberg)

(also called Markgraftum Brandenburg-Ansbach)

(1420 reunited with Fürstentum Kulmbach and the land went back to Burggrafschaft Nürnberg)

(also called Herzogtum Pfalz-Zweibrücken, Pfalzgrafschaft Zweibrücken, because the ruler were Herzog and sometimes Pfalzgraf)

(1453 secession of the Fürstentum Pfalz-Zweibrücken)

(also called Pfalzgrafschaft Mosbach)

(1499 extinct, inherited to Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein)

(also called Pfalzgrafschaft Neumarkt or Fürstentum Pfalz-Oberpfalz)

(1448 extinct, inherited to Pfalz-Mosbach)

(about 1450 stand increased to Gefürstete Landgrafschaft Leuchtenberg)

(about 1450 stand increased to Gefürstete Landgrafschaft Leuchtenberg)

(1135 inherited to Grafen von Heiligenberg; renamed to Reichsgrafschaft Heiligenberg)

(1311 merged with Landgrafschaft Oberhessen to Landgrafschaft Hessen)

(1311 merged with Landgrafschaft Niederhessen to Landgrafschaft Hessen)

(1308 division of inheritance into Landgrafschaften Oberhessen and Niederhessen)

(1474 Stand increasing to Gefürstete Grafschaft Henneberg-Schleusingen)

(1468 Separation from Henneberg-Münnerstadt due to division of inheritance)

(1474 Stand increasing to Gefürstete Grafschaft Henneberg-Römhild)

(1378 the Graf sold Grafschaft Aschach to Fürstbistum Würzburg und moved to Römhild (former Grafschaft Hartenberg))

(1371 sold to Henneberg-Aschach)

(1262 divided into Henneberg-Schleusingen, Henneberg-Aschach and Henneberg-Hartenberg)

(1441 Division of inheritance in Limpurg-Speckfeld, Limpurg-Gaildorf)

(ruled by the Fürstbischof of Freising)

(also called Grafschaft auf dem Yserrain)

(ruled by the Fürstbischof of Freising)

(1196 stand increased to Landgrafschaft Leuchtenberg)

(1468 sold to Fürstabtei Sankt Gallen; most of the subjects joint the Zehngerichtebund)

(at that time called Wirtemberg)

(1495 stand increased to Herzogtum Württemberg)

(at that time called Wirtemberg-Stuttgart)

(1482 reunification of the Grafschaften Württemberg-Urach and Württemberg-Stuttgart to Reichsgrafschaft Württemberg)

(at that time called Wirtemberg-Urach)

(1482 reunification of the Grafschaften Württemberg-Urach and Württemberg-Stuttgart to Reichsgrafschaft Württemberg)

(at that time called Wirtemberg)

(1442 division of the state into Grafschaft Württemberg-Urach and Württemberg-Stuttgart)

(1415 sold to Württemberg)

(1429 renamed to Reichsgrafschaft Hohenzollern)

(1402 Division of the Grafschaft into the Straßburger and Öttinger Linie; Fratricidal war over inheritance)

(1362 Division of the Grafschaft into the Schwarzgräfliche and Straßburger Linie)

(1344 Division of inheritance into Zollern-Hohenzollern, Schwarzgräfliche Linie, Straßburger Linie and Ostertager Linie)

(1391 sold Herrschaft Mülheim to Herren von Weitlingen, 1403 sold Herrschaft Schalksburg to Württemberg)

(1381 sold to Österreich)

(1170 secession of the Grafschaft Hohenberg)

(Mai 1288 Division of inheritance into Zollern-Hohenzollern and Zollern-Schalksburg)

(also called Reichsgrafschaft Montfort-Rothenfels)

(ruled by Reichsgrafen Montort-Rothenfels)

(also called Reichsgrafschaft Werdenberg-Heiligenberg)

(1230 ruled by Grafen Werdenberg, 1277 Grafen Werdenberg-Heiligenberg, 1402 Grafen Montfort-Tettnag, 1483 Grafen Sax-Missox, 1493 Freiherrn von Kastelwart, 1498 Freiherrn von Hewen)

(1342 cession of Grafschaft Vaduz, 1396 Herrschaft Schellenberg which became both 1396 imperial-immediate)

(1230 Cession of the Grafschaft Werdenberg; 1348 Cession of Herrschaft Tettnang which became imperial immediacy Reichsherrschaft)

(1135 ruled by Grafen Heiligenberg, 1277 by Grafen Werdenberg)

(1290 also called Grafschaft Werdenberg-Sargans)

(1290 ruled by Grafen Werdenberg-Sargans, 1396 Österreich, 1436 Werdenberg-Sargans)

(1483 soled to Alte Eidgenossenschaft)

(1493 redivision of the Oettingen estate into Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein)

(1493 redivision of the Oettingen estate into Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein)

(1486 extinct, sold to Bayern, 1493 Sale annulled; redivision of the Oettingen estate into Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein)

(1442 Division of inheritance into the three Grafschaften Oettingen-Oettingen, Oettingen-Altwallerstein and Oettingen-Flochberg)

(1440 renamed to Grafschaft Oettingen)

(1440 extinct and merged to Grafschaft Oettingen)

(also called Ältere Grafschaft Oettingen, in the 13th century moving to the so called Ries and founding the Jüngere Grafschaft Oettingen)

(1410 Division of inheritance into the two Grafschaften Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Baldern)

(1325 stand increased to Landgrafschaft Klettgau)

(1396 ruled by Grafen Werdenberg-Sargans, 1416 Freiherrn Brandis)

(1286 Division of inheritance into Zweibrücken and Zweibrücken-Bitsch)

(1410 merged into Fürstentum Pfalz-Simmern)

(1223, the Grafschaft Lützelstein had to be given in fief to the Hochstift Strasbourg.)

(1450 Inherited to Landgrafschaft Hessen and downgraded to a fiefdom of Hessen)

(The Grafschaft Ziegenhain was only in parts an imperial fief, other parts were fiefs of the prince-bishopric of Mainz, the imperial abbey of Fulda and allodial property)

(1450 Inherited to Landgrafschaft Hessen and downgraded to a fiefdom of Hessen)

(1479 Inherited to and incorporated into Landgrafschaft Hessen)

(1416 stand increased to Herzogtum)

(1444 The Fürst of Pfalz-Zweibrücken inherited Veldenz)

(also called Reichsgrafschaft Sponheim-Starkenburg)

(1437 extinct; the entire Grafschaft Sponheim was divided between the Graf von Veldenz and the Markgraf von Baden, but remained nominally as a unity)

(1417 extinct; 4/5 of the land went to the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim and 1/5 to the Pfalz; but the Grafschaft remained nominally as a unity)

(1437 line of the Hinteren Grafen extinct; the entire Grafschaft Sponheim was divided between the Graf von Veldenz and the Markgraf von Baden, but remained nominally as a unity)

(1233 Division of inhertitance into Vordere and Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim)

(Although Waldeck came under the fiefdom of Kassel in 1379, it remained imperial immediacy (confirmed by the Reichskammergericht!))

(ruled by the Wild- und Rheingrafen)

(also called Reichsgrafschaft Altsalm)

(ruled by Herren von Reifferscheid und Dyk)

(1182 by division of inheritance foundation of the Grafschaft Zweibrücken)

(1214 secession of the Grafschaft Leiningen)

(1381-1500 also called Grafschaft Nassau-Saarbrücken, because the Grafschaft was inherited and ruled by the counts of Nassau)

(1398 land used to form Fürstentum Ansbach and Fürstentum Kulmbach, 1420 land back to Burggrafschaft Nürnberg, 1427 castle sold to Reichsstadt Nürnberg and 1440 land divided again)

(1099 added to Fürstbistum Passau)

(939-1255 ruled by the Bischof from Worms)

(1255-1355 ruled by the counts of Nassau)

(1355 due to an inheritance division of the Nassau estates the county Nassau-Weilburg was created)

(ruled by the Fürstbischof of Freising)

(1158 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft Leuchtenberg)

(1209 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(at that time called Wirtemberg)

(1209 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(1111 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(1275 Vordere Herrschaft Tengen sold to Herren von Klingenberg; 1488 sold to Deutschordensballei Schwaben-Elsass-Burgund)

(1422 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(also called Reichsgrafscaft Montfort-Tettnang)

(1348 ruled by Reichsgrafen Montfort-Tettnang)

(1332 also called Reichsgrafschaft Montfort-Tettnang, 1438 Montfort-Rothenfels)

(1332 ruled by Reichsgraf Montfort-Tettnang, 1438 Reichsgraf Montfort-Rothenfels)

(1471 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(1460 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(1147 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(1396 ruled by Grafen Werdenberg-Heiligenberg, 1412 Reichsgraf Montfort-Tettnang, 1417 Freiherr Brandis)

(also called Reichsgrafschaft Wiesensteig)

(1396 ruled by Reichsgrafen Helfenstein)

(also called Reichsherrschaft Waldburg-Wolfegg)

(ruled by the Freiherren von Waldburg)

(1195 stand increased to Reichsgrafschaft)

(1356 extinct; division between Kurmainz and Landgrafschaft Hessen)

(from 1258 on also called Grafschaft, because the ruler had the title Graf)

(also called Reichsherrschaft Blankenburg or Blâmont; the ruler called himself Graf and his county Grafschaft)

(1499 the Graf sold half of his Hersrchaft to the Herzog von Lothringen)

(also called Grafschaft Neuburg am Inn because the ruler was a Graf)

(1465 increasing stand to Reichsherrschaft)

(1465 increasing stand to Reichsherrschaft)

(1460 to Königreich Böhmen)

(1359 secession of the Reichsritterschaftliche Herrschaft Wolfstein)

(1493 redivision of the Oettingen estate into Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein)

(1455 moving of the capital to Bissingen)

(1150 extinct and inherited by Herren von Hohenburg)

(1400 stand increased to Freie Reichsherrschaft Hohenems)

(1326 division of inheritance into Rechberg-Hohenrechberg and Rechberg-Illereichen)

(1413 extinct, inheritance falls to Rechberg Auf den Bergen)

(Mitte 13. Jahrhundert division of inheritance into Rechberg unter den Bergen and Rechberg auf den Bergen)

(renamed to Weißenburg am Sand)

(1486 Connection to the Herzogtum Bayern; 1492 restoration of imperial immediacy, but downgrading from Freie Reichsstadt to Reichsstadt)

(1454 Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(1280 Loss of imperial immediacy)

(until 1607 mostly called Schwäbisch Wörth)

(1415 Restoration of imperial immediacy)

(1454 Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(1330 Loss of Imperial Immediacy, incorporated into Österreich)

(since 1454 Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(1454 Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(1457 stand increased to Freie Reichsstadt)

(1430 moved to Freie Reichsherrschaft Hohenems)

(Between 1342 - 1431 bought by Reichsstadt Heilbronn)

(1318 Loss of imperial immediacy)

(939 stand increased to Reichsherrschaft)

(1258 stand increased to Reichsherrschaft)

(1282 Granting of town rights and elevation to the status of an Reichsdorf)'

(1483 in possession of Zürich, Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus)

(1497 Verbündeter / zugewanderter Ort der Alten Eidgenossenschaft)

(1471 part of the Freistaat Gemeiner Drei Bünde)

(also called Grauer Bund)

(1471 part of the Freistaat Gemeiner Drei Bünde)

(1471 part of the Freistaat Gemeiner Drei Bünde)