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Electorate of the Palatinate

 * Title: Count Palatine of the Rhine, Arch-Steward and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
 * 945: Palatinate of Lorraine
 * 1095: County Palatinate of the Rhine
 * 1214: County Palatinate went to Bavarian Wittelsbach by inheritance
 * 1356: HRE Prince-Elector
 * 1410: Partitioned into Electorate of the Palatinate, Upper Palatinate or Palatinate-Amberg, Palatinate-Mosbach and Palatinate-Zweibrücken
 * 1448: Palatinate-Mosbach line extinct; reunited with Electorate of the Palatinate
 * 1499: Upper Palatinate line extinct; united with Electorate of the Palatinate
 * 1582: HRE Council of Princes
 * 1610: Partitioned into itself and Palatinate-Simmern
 * 1623: Electoral dignity transferred to Bavaria
 * 1628: Incorporated into Bavaria
 * 1648: New electoral seat granted to Palatinate
 * 1777: Inherited by Bavaria
 * 1792: In Council of Princes
 * 1803: Mediatized
 * 1803: Incorporated into Bavaria


 * Reference
 * Territories of the Palatinate, 1700s

Electorate of Brandenburg

 * Titles: King in Prussia; Margrave of Brandenburg; Sovereign Prince of Orange; Duke in of Magdeburg, Kleve, Jülich, Berg, Szczecin, Pomerania, the Kashubs, the Wends, in Silesia of Krosno; Burgrave of Nuremberg; Prince of Halberstadt, Minden, Kammin; Count of Hohenzollern, Ruppin, the Mark, Ravensberg, Hohenstein, Lingen, Mörs, Buren, Leerdam; Margrave of the Veere, Flushing; Lord of Ravenstein, the Lands of Lebork, Bytow, Arlay, Breda.


 * 1792: In Council of Princes


 * References:
 * Regents of Brandenburg

Electorate of Cologne

 * (Köln)
 * 1356: Prince-Elector
 * 1792: In Council of Princes

Electorate of Hesse-Kassel

 * 1864: 7699 sq. mi.; 745-063
 * 1567: Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
 * 1606: Langraves became administrators of Abbey of Hersfeld
 * 1637-1663: Landgrave William VI
 * 1648: Acquired County of Schaumburg and Abbey of Hersfeld (Treaty of Westphalia)
 * 1730-1751: Landgrave Frederick I
 * 1736: Frederick I inherited County of Hanau-Munzenberg whose Hanau line died out
 * 1792: In Council of Princes
 * 1803: Electorate of Hesse-Kassel


 * Reference
 * Hesse-Cassel

Electorate of Mainz

 * 1356: Prince-Elector
 * 1792: In Council of Princes

Electorate of Trier

 * 1356: Prince-Elector
 * 1792: In Council of Princes