User:Alekksandr/HRE 1792

Second and subsequent appearances deleted.

Numbering from German_Confederation

Votes divided among various members

Lines which became extinct, or inherited larger states, before the creation of the German Confederation

Foreign monarchs not in the German Confederation

Conspicuous by their absence are

(11) - Hesse-Homburg (Hesse-Darmstadt renounced all claims to Hesse-Homburg but still represented it on the Reichstag and Kreistag rather than Hesse-Homburg directly representing itself)

(13) - Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsf%C3%BCrstenrat#cite_note-59 - "Virilstimme gemeinsam für Hohenzollern-Hechingen und Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen."

(18) - Luxembourg - but see Nassau-Hadamar

(28) - Saxe-Lauenburg - but see Holstein

(32) - Schaumburg-Lippe - maybe the Count of Lippe-Bückeburg Principality of Heitersheim (SMOM)

Mediatised members of The Secular Bench included


 * The Duke of Arenberg (Louis Engelbert) - Confederation of the Rhine - mediatised 1810 - Arenberg
 * The Prince of Auersperg (Karl Josef Anton)(mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Dietrichstein (Karl Johann) (mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Fürstenberg (Joseph Maria Benedict) (de)(mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Lobkowitz (Joseph Franz Maximilian)
 * The Prince of Salm (there were two branches of this family, who split the vote: Salm-Salm
 * Constantin Alexander of Salm-Salm (de) Confederation of the Rhine (mediatised 1801/1811)
 * Frederick III of Salm-Kyrburg) Confederation of the Rhine (mediatised 1801/1811)
 * The Prince of Schwarzenberg (Joseph II)(mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Thurn und Taxis (Karl Anselm) (mediatised 1806)

The Council of Electors
The council included the following five secular members:
 * (4) The King of Bohemia (also Archduke of Austria and King of Hungary) (Emperor Leopold II)
 * (22) The Margrave of Brandenburg (King of Prussia) (Frederick William II)
 * (6) The Count Palatine of the Rhine (also Duke of Bavaria) (Charles IV Theodore)
 * (31) The Duke of Saxony (Frederick Augustus III)
 * (8) The Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Elector of Hanover, King of Great Britain)'' (George III)

The Council of Princes
This is ordered based on the official order of voting in the Diet:

The Secular Bench

 * The Duke of Zweibrücken (Carl II August) (died 1795 - his younger brother inherited the Electorate of Bavaria in 1799)
 * (30) The Duke of Saxe-Weimar (Carl August, also Duke of Saxe-Eisenach)
 * The Duke of Saxe-Coburg (two branches of the Wettin family split this vote:
 * (25)Ernest Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
 * (29)George I of Saxe-Meiningen)
 * (26)The Duke of Saxe-Gotha (Ernest II, also Duke of Saxe-Altenburg)
 * (7)The Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Charles William Ferdinand)
 * The Duke of Upper Pomerania (Gustav III, also King of Sweden)
 * (19)The Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Frederick Francis I)
 * (36)The Duke of Württemberg (Karl Eugen)
 * (9)The Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (William IX)
 * (10)The Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (Louis X)
 * (5)The Margrave of Baden-Baden (Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden)
 * (14)The Duke of Holstein (Christian VII, also King of Denmark)
 * (15)The Duke of Holstein-Gottorp-Oldenburg (Peter Frederick William)
 * The Duke of Savoy (Victor Amadeus III, also King of Sardinia)
 * The Prince of Anhalt (4 branches split the vote -
 * Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst(line extinct 1796)
 * (2)Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau
 * (1)Fredrick Albert of Anhalt-Bernburg
 * (3)August Christian of Anhalt-Köthen)
 * The Princely Count of Henneberg (this vote was divided among the various branches of the House of Wettin—
 * (27)Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 * (20)The Prince of Ratzeburg (Adolphus Frederick IV, also Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
 * query if he and his principality existed - The Prince of Kruchfeld (Wilhelm I)
 * The Duke of Arenberg (Louis Engelbert) - mediatised 1810
 * (12)The Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (Josef Friedrich Wilhelm)
 * The Prince of Lobkowitz (Joseph Franz Maximilian)
 * The Prince of Salm (there were two branches of this family, who split the vote:
 * Constantin Alexander of Salm-Salm(mediatised 1810/13)
 * Frederick III of Salm-Kyrburg)(mediatised 1813)
 * The Prince of Dietrichstein (Karl Johann) (mediatised 1806)
 * (18)The Prince of Nassau-Hadamar (William V, also Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Provinces)
 * The Prince of Auersperg (Karl Josef Anton)(mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Fürstenberg (Joseph Maria Benedict) (de)(mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Schwarzenberg (Joseph II)(mediatised 1806)
 * (16)The Prince of Liechtenstein (Aloys I)
 * The Prince of Thurn und Taxis (Karl Anselm) (mediatised 1806)
 * The Prince of Schwarzburg (there were two branches of this family, who split the vote -
 * (34) Christian Günther III of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
 * (33)Frederick Charles of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt)
 * A single vote for the College of the Counts of Swabia; see below
 * A single vote for the College of the Counts of the Wetterau; see below
 * A single vote for the College of the Counts of Franconia; see below
 * A single vote for the College of the Counts of Westphalia; see below

Membership of single-vote colleges
The two benches of the Council of Princes each contained single-vote colleges. The membership of each of these was as follows:

The Counts of the Wetterau

 * The Princes and Counts of Solms - inc. County of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim
 * The Prince of Nassau-Usingen (inherited by the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, 1816)
 * (21)The Prince of Nassau-Weilburg
 * The Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (inherited by the Prince of Nassau-Usingen 1797)
 * The Princes and Counts of Isenburg(mediatised by 1815)
 * The Counts of Stolberg
 * The Princes and Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein
 * The Counts of Salm
 * The Princes and Counts of Leiningen
 * The Counts of Westerburg
 * The Counts of Wetter-Tegerfelden
 * The Counts of Hoyos
 * The Counts of Schönburg
 * The Count of Wied-Runkel
 * The Counts of Ortenburg
 * (23/24)The Counts of Reuss zu Plauen

The Counts of Swabia

 * The Prince of Fürstenberg
 * The Abbess of Buchau
 * The Commander of the Teutonic Knights
 * The Prince of Oettingen
 * The Count of Montfort (also King of Bohemia)
 * The Count of Helfenstein (also Elector of Bavaria)
 * The Prince of Schwarzenberg
 * The Count of Königsegg
 * The Count of Waldburg
 * The Count of Eberstein (also Margrave of Baden)
 * The Count von der Leyen
 * The Counts of Fugger (mediatised)
 * The Lord of Hohenems (also King of Bohemia)
 * The Prince-Abbot of St. Blase
 * The Count of Pappenheim
 * The Count of Stadion
 * The Count of Traun
 * The Prince of Thurn und Taxis
 * the Count of Wetter-Tegerfelden in Bonndorf
 * The Count of Khevenhüller
 * The Count of Kuefstein
 * The Prince of Colloredo (seat in Imperial Diet, 1803)(mediatised)
 * The Count of Harrach
 * The Count of Sternberg
 * The Count of Neipperg

The Counts of Franconia

 * The Princes and Counts of Hohenlohe (mediatised)
 * The Counts of Castell (mediatised)
 * The Counts of Erbach (mediatised)
 * The Counts of Rothenberg (later the Counts of Rothberg)
 * The Princes and Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim
 * The Heirs to the Counts of Limpurg
 * The Counts of Nostitz-Rieneck
 * The Prince of Schwarzenberg
 * The Heirs to the Counts of Wolfstein
 * The Counts of Schönborn
 * The Counts of Windisch-Grätz
 * The Counts Orsini von Rosenberg
 * The Counts of Starhemberg
 * The Counts of Wurmbrand
 * The Counts of Giech
 * The Counts of Gravenitz
 * The Counts of Pückler

The Counts of Westphalia

 * The Lord of Sayn-Altenkirchen (also King of Prussia)
 * The Count of Hoya (also Elector of Hanover)
 * The Count of Spiegelberg (also Elector of Hanover)
 * The Count of Diepholz (also Elector of Hanover)
 * The Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
 * The Count of Tecklenburg (also King of Prussia)
 * The Duke of Arenberg
 * The Prince of Wied-Runkel
 * The Prince of Wied-Neuwied
 * The Count of Schaumburg (shared between the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and ?(32)? the Count of Lippe-Bückeburg)
 * (17) The Counts of Lippe
 * The Counts of Bentheim - mediatised
 * The Princes and Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim
 * The Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg
 * (35)The Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
 * The Count of Toerring
 * The Count of Aspremont
 * The Prince of Salm-Salm (as Count of Anholt)
 * The Count of Metternich-Winnenburg
 * The Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg
 * The Counts of Plettenberg
 * The Counts of Limburg-Stirum
 * The Count of Wallmoden
 * The Count of Quadt
 * The Counts of Ostein
 * The Counts of Nesselrode
 * The Counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt
 * The Counts of Platen
 * The Counts of Sinzendorf
 * The Prince of Ligne

Ecclesiastical

The Council of Electors

 * The Archbishop of Mainz ( Frederick Charles Joseph of Erthal)
 * The Archbishop of Trier (Clement Wenceslaus of Saxony)
 * The Archbishop of Cologne (Maximilian Francis of Austria)

The Ecclesiastical Bench

 * The Archbishop of Salzburg (Hieronymus von Colloredo)
 * The Archbishop of Besançon (vacant seat)
 * The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (Maximilian Franz of Austria, the Elector of Cologne)
 * The Bishop of Bamberg (Franz Ludwig von Erthal, also Prince-Bishop of Würzburg)
 * The Bishop of Würzburg (Franz Ludwig von Erthal, also Prince-Bishop of Bamberg)
 * The Bishop of Worms (Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, the Elector of Mainz)
 * The Bishop of Eichstätt (Joseph von Stubenberg)
 * The Bishop of Speyer (August Philip of Limburg Stirum)
 * The Bishop of Strassburg (Louis-René-Edouard de Rohan-Guéménée)
 * The Bishop of Constance (Maximilian Christof von Rodt)
 * The Bishop of Augsburg (Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony, the Elector of Trier)
 * The Bishop of Hildesheim (Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, also Prince-Bishop of Paderborn)
 * The Bishop of Paderborn (Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, also Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim)
 * The Bishop of Freising (Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös, also Prince-Bishop of Regensburg)
 * The Bishop of Regensburg (Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös, also Prince-Bishop of Freising)
 * The Bishop of Passau (Joseph Franz Anton von Auersperg)
 * The Bishop of Trent (Peter Michael Vigilius von Thun-Hohenstein)
 * The Bishop of Brixen (Karl Franz von Lodron)
 * The Bishop of Basel (Franz Joseph Sigismund von Roggenbach)
 * The Bishop of Münster (Maximilian Francis of Austria, the Elector of Cologne)
 * The Bishop of Osnabrück (notable as, after 1648, it alternated between Protestant and Roman Catholic incumbents) (Frederick Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg)
 * The Bishop of Liège (César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck)
 * The Bishop of Lübeck (a Protestant bishopric) (Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp)
 * The Bishop of Chur (Franz Dionysius von Rost)
 * The Bishop of Fulda (Adalbert von Harstall)
 * The Abbot of Kempten (Ruprecht von Neuenstein)
 * The Provost of Ellwangen (Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony, the Elector of Trier)
 * The Grand Master of the Order of St. John (Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc)
 * The Prior of Berchtesgaden (Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös, the Prince-Bishop of Freising and Regensburg)
 * The Provost of Weissenburg (August Philip of Limburg Stirum, the Prince-Bishop of Speyer)
 * The Abbot of Prüm (Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony, the Elector of Trier)
 * The Abbot of Stablo (Célestin Thys)
 * The Abbot of Corvey (Theodor von Brabeck)
 * A single vote for the College of the Prelates of Swabia; see below
 * A single vote for the College of the Prelates of the Rhine; see below
 * These last two were groups of lesser abbots, who together had a joint vote. Unlike those who had a full vote, they were not considered fully sovereign.

Membership of single-vote colleges
The two benches of the Council of Princes each contained single-vote colleges. The membership of each of these was as follows:

The Prelates of Swabia

 * The Abbess of Baindt
 * The Abbot of Elchingen
 * The Abbot of Gengenbach
 * The Abbess of Gutenzell
 * The Abbess of Heggbach
 * The Abbess of Irsee
 * The Abbot of Kaisheim
 * The Abbot of Marchtal
 * The Abbot of Neresheim
 * The Abbot of Ochsenhausen
 * The Abbot of Petershausen
 * The Abbot of Roggenburg
 * The Abbot of Rot
 * The Abbot of Rottenmünster
 * The Abbot of Salmannsweiler
 * The Abbot of Schussenried
 * The Abbess of Söflingen
 * The Abbot of Ursperg
 * The Abbot of Weingarten
 * The Abbot of Weissenau
 * The Abbot of Wettenhausen
 * The Abbot of Zwiefalten

The Prelates of the Rhine

 * The Abbot of Bruchsal and Odenheim
 * The Abbess of Buchau
 * The Abbot of Burtscheid
 * The Abbot of Ballei of Koblenz (Grand Master of the Teutonic Order)
 * The Abbot of St. Cornelismünster
 * The Abbot of Ballei of Elsass and Burgundy (Grand Master of the Teutonic Order)
 * The Abbess of Essen
 * The Abbess of Gandersheim
 * The Abbot of St Georg in Isny
 * The Abbess of Gernrode
 * The Abbess of Herford
 * The Abbess of Niedermünster in Regensburg
 * The Abbess of Obermünster in Regensburg
 * The Abbess of Quedlinburg
 * The Abbess of Thorn
 * The Abbot of St. Ulrich and St. Afra in Augsburg
 * The Abbot of Werden

The Council of Cities
The Council of Imperial Free Cities was theoretically equal to the others, but in actuality it was never allowed to cast a deciding vote and in practice its vote was only advisory. In 1792, there were 51 Free Cities, divided amongst two benches.

Rhenish Bench

 * Cologne
 * Aachen
 * Lübeck
 * Worms
 * Speyer
 * Frankfurt am Main
 * Goslar
 * Bremen
 * Hamburg
 * Mühlhausen
 * Nordhausen
 * Dortmund
 * Friedberg
 * Wetzlar

Swabian Bench

 * Regensburg
 * Augsburg
 * Nuremberg
 * Ulm
 * Esslingen am Neckar
 * Reutlingen
 * Nördlingen
 * Rothenburg ob der Tauber
 * Schwäbisch Hall
 * Rottweil
 * Überlingen
 * Heilbronn
 * Schwäbisch Gmünd
 * Memmingen
 * Lindau
 * Dinkelsbühl
 * Biberach
 * Ravensburg
 * Schweinfurt
 * Kempten
 * Windsheim
 * Kaufbeuren
 * Weil
 * Wangen
 * Isny
 * Pfullendorf
 * Offenburg
 * Leutkirch
 * Wimpfen
 * Weißenburg im Nordgau
 * Giengen
 * Gengenbach
 * Zell am Harmersbach
 * Buchhorn
 * Aalen
 * Buchau
 * Bopfingen