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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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  • 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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    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 German Confederation and recognised a specific, elevated status (Standesherren or Mediatized Houses) for the mediatized princes of the defunct Empire...
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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 the Kingdom of Württemberg, where he had already...
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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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  • Thumbnail for House of Limburg-Stirum
    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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Charles Egon III, Prince of Fürstenberg
    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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    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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    Deutschen Adelsarchivs. Marburg, 2018. Carl Heiner Beusch. 'Westfälische Standesherren. Die Fürsten von Bentheim-Tecklenburg im 19. Jahrhundert.' In Westfälische...
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  • Thumbnail for Melchior Friedrich von Schönborn-Buchheim
    12 August 2024. Standesherren, Verein der Deutschen (1876). Auszug aus den von den Mitgliedern des Vereins der deutschen Standesherren übergebenen Darstellungen...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    agreement in 1817, which limited him to a titular role and the rank of Standesherren. He died in Frankfurt in 1818, and the final Burgmann, Sigmund Löw zu...
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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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    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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  • 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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