Principality of Aschaffenburg

Principality of Aschaffenburg Fürstentum Aschaffenburg (German)
1803–1810
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Status	Client state of the French Empire and State of the Confederation of the Rhine
Capital	Aschaffenburg
Government	Principality
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars
• Established	1803
• Merged into Grand     Duchy of Frankfurt	1810
• Awarded to Bavaria	1814
Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of Mainz Grand Duchy of Frankfurt

The Principality of Aschaffenburg (German: Fürstentum Aschaffenburg) was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1803 and, following the dissolution of the Empire in 1806, of the Confederation of the Rhine, which existed from 1806 to 1810. Its capital was Aschaffenburg.

With the secularization of the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1803, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg was compensated by receiving the newly created principalities of Aschaffenburg and Regensburg and the County of Wetzlar. Along with the city of Aschaffenburg, the Principality of Aschaffenburg also consisted of Klingenberg, Lohr, Aufenau, Stadtprozelten, Orb, and Aura.

The principality became part of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806 after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1810 Napoleon granted Dalberg's Principality of Regensburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria and compensated him with Hanau and Fulda. Dalberg merged his remaining territories of Aschaffenburg, Frankfurt, Wetzlar, Hanau, and Fulda into the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, with the Principality of Aschaffenburg becoming a department of the new grand duchy. The city of Aschaffenburg remained the residence of Dalberg, however. The region was annexed by Bavaria in 1814.

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (1988). Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder (in German). Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck. p. 639. ISBN 3-406-33290-0.

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Client states of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815)

Sister
republics

Germany	Mainz
Ireland	Connacht
Italy	Alba Ancona Bergamo Bologna Brescia Cisalpinia Cispadania Crema Italy Liguria Lucca Parthenopea Piedmont Rome Subalpinia Tiberinia Transpadania Venice
Netherlands	Batavia
Switzerland	Helvetia Lemania Rauracia Valais Swiss Confederation

Europe at the height of Napoleon's Empire

Napoleonic
creations

Germany	Aschaffenburg Confederation of the Rhine Baden Bavaria Berg Erfurt Frankfurt Hesse Leyen Regensburg Salm Salm-Horstmar Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck Saxony Westphalia Wetzlar Württemberg Würzburg
Italy	Etruria Italy Lucca and Piombino Massa and Carrara Naples Pontecorvo Tuscany
Mediterranean	Malta Egypt
Netherlands	Holland
Poland	Warsaw Danzig
Spain	Spain