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    characterised by conflict between the conservative mediatised houses (Standesherren) and forces supporting political and social liberalisation. During the...
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    in English as the Estates of Württemberg. The upper chamber (German: Standesherren) comprised: Adult princes of the blood Heads of noble families from...
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    Prussian lands—these were primarily mediatized princely houses (so-called Standesherren, incumbents of state countries), such as Arenberg, Bentheim-Steinfurt...
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  • The mediatised houses (or mediatized houses, German: Standesherren) were ruling princely and comital-ranked houses that were mediatised in the Holy Roman...
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    the German Confederation and recognised a specific, elevated status (Standesherren or Mediatized Houses) for the mediatized princes of the defunct Empire...
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    Württemberg. From 1864 to 1892 he was president of the Association of German Standesherren. He died in Paris and was succeeded by his son Charles Egon IV. Kurt...
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  • Thumbnail for Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
    Prince of Hohelohe-Langeburg, entitling him to sit in the Kammer der Standesherren [House of Lords] of Württemberg, where he had already been serving as...
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    Friedrich Ferdinand — TITULAR — Duke of Schleswig-Holstein 1934–1965 Reason for succession failure: abolition of "Standesherren" in 1918 Succeeded by Peter...
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    equality of birth for marital purposes of mediatized families (called Standesherren) to reigning dynasties. In 1877, the mediatized comital families were...
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  • possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (German: Standesherren), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (German: Abgeordnetenhaus)...
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  • Thumbnail for Duke Maximilian of Württemberg
    Prince of the Royal House, had a mandate in the Württemberg Kammer der Standesherren ("Chamber of Eminents"), the upper chamber of the Estates of Württemberg...
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    The house of Limburg Stirum is nevertheless considered part of the Standesherren by most authors on the subject. The titles of the House of Limburg Stirum...
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  • Thumbnail for Schönburg family
    many others of the nobility, the members of the house were named as Standesherren, and the family with once sovereign territorial lordship had to forfeit...
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    Württembergian Chamber of Lords (German: Württembergischen Kammer der Standesherren). Hügel was married four times. His first marriage was to Caroline von...
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  • possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (German: Standesherren), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (German: Abgeordnetenhaus)...
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    the administrative unification was opposed by the mediatised houses (Standesherren). These nobles, who had ruled small principalities of their own before...
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    Württembergian Chamber of Lords (German: Württembergischen Kammer der Standesherren) at which he regularly attended legislative sessions. In 1865, Charles...
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  • possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (German: Standesherren), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (German: Abgeordnetenhaus)...
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    Publications universitaires de Louvain, 1951). Gollwitzer, Heinz. Die Standesherren. Die politische und gesellschaftliche Stellung der Mediatisierten 1815–1918...
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    [self-published source]. Bibliography (in German) Gollwitzer, Heinz, Die Standesherren. Die politische und gesellschaftliche Stellung der Mediatisierten 1815-1918...
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  • Thumbnail for Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg
    royal house of Württemberg, William also held a seat in the Kammer der Standesherren (House of Lords) of the Württembergische Landstände parliament from...
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    Deutschen Adelsarchivs. Marburg, 2018. Carl Heiner Beusch. 'Westfälische Standesherren. Die Fürsten von Bentheim-Tecklenburg im 19. Jahrhundert.' In Westfälische...
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  • privileged members of the Second Chamber moved to the First Chamber (German: Standesherren), which ceased to be purely an organ of the nobility. The Breitling...
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  • possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (German: Standesherren), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (German: Abgeordnetenhaus)...
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    Württemberg. In 1820–35 he was elected chairman of the "Kammer der Standesherren" (Upper House) of the Estates of Württemberg. On 28 September 1811,...
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    becoming a major general in 1819. He was made a member of the Kammer der Standesherren in the Estates of Württemberg, extraordinary envoy to the court at Karlsruhe...
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  • Geistesgeschichte des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1951 (zugl. Habil.). Die Standesherren. Die politische und gesellschaftliche Stellung der Mediatisierten 1815–1918...
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    part because of the mines of Pless. The incumbents of state countries (Standesherren) had no sovereignty over their possessions, but held the privileges...
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    cession agreement in 1817, which left him only his title and the rank of Standesherren. He died in Frankfurt in 1818. The last of the Burgmannen, Sigmund Löw...
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  • possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (German: Standesherren), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (German: Abgeordnetenhaus)...
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