List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (N)

This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter N:

Name Type Circle Bench Formed Notes
Namur County
Margaviate
1512: Burgundian Circle
Nassau
Duke of Nassau, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Count of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen & Dietz, Burgrave of Hammerstein, Lord of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg & Eppstein
1159: County
1366: Princely County
1737: Principality
1806: Duchy
n/a 1160 915: Nassau town founded
1125: Nassau castle built
1255: Division between Ottonian and Walramian branches and thereafter underwent numerous further partitions
1515: Counts gain title of Prince of Orange
1866: Annexed by Prussia
Nassau-Dietz 1654: HRE Council of Princes
Nassau-Dillenburg 1250 1303: Division into Nassau-Siegen and Nassau-Hadamar
1334: Nassau-Dillenburg reunited
1654: HRE Council of Princes
Nassau-Hadamar 1654: HRE Council of Princes
Nassau-Orange
Prince of Orange and Nassau, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Dietz, Lingen, Mörs, Buren, Leerdam, etc. Marquis of the Vere en Vlissingen, Lord and Baron of Breda, the City of Grave and Lands of Cuycq, Diest, Grimbergen, Herstal, Cranendoncq, Warneston, Arlay, Noseroy, St. Vith, Daesburgh, Polanen, Willemstadt, Niervaert, Ysselsteyn, St. Maertensdijck, Steenbergen, Geertruydenberge, Turenhout, Zevenbergen, of the Upper and Lower Swaluwen, Naeltwijck, Soest, Baren, ter Eem, Immenes, &c. Hereditary Burgrave of Antwerp and Besançon, Hereditary Marshall of Holland, Governor and Hereditary Stadholder of Gelderland and County of Zutphen, Holland, Zeeland, West-Frisia, Utrecht and Over-Yissel, and Land of Drenthe, Hereditary Captain-General, and Admiral of the United Netherlands
County 1559 1559: Partitioned from Nassau-Dillenburg
1674: Annexed to Nassau-Diez
Nassau-Orange Principality 1702 Partitioned from Nassau-Dietz
Nassau-Siegen 1654: HRE Counci of Princes
Nassau-Usingen County
1688: Principality
Upp Rhen 1659 Partitioned from Nassau-Saarbrücken
Nassau-Weilburg Princely County
1688: HRE Prince
Upp Rhen 1442 Partitioned from Nassau-Weilburg-Saarbrücken
Naumburg-Zeitz Bishopric 1029 1565: Annexed by Saxony
Naugard County
Neipperg 1734: HRE County 1766: Swabian College of Counts
Nellenburg Landgraviate
Neresheim Imperial Abbacy Swab 1793: Council of Princes
Nesselrode Acquired Reichenstein
Neuburg Lordship 1363: To Austria
Neu-Bruchhausen County 1234 Partitioned from Bruchhausen
1388: Annexed to Hoya
Neuchâtel
(Neuchatel, Neuenburg)
Sovereign Prince and Count of Neuchâtel and Count of Valangin
County
1643: Principality
1034 To Dukes of Orleans-Longueville
1707: Personal union with Prussia
Neu-Eberstein County 1207 1207: Partitioned from the Usgau
1589: Divided between Bronchorst-Gronsfeld and Wolkenstein
1673: Annexed to Speyer
1676: Annexed to Baden
Neuenahr HRE County 1222 1419: Annexed to Virneburg
1545: To Julich
Neuenburg am Rhein Imperial City 1218 Split off from Zähringen
To Austria
Neu-Katzenelnbogen County 1245 1245: Partitioned from Katzenelnbogen
1479: Annexed to Hesse-Marburg
Neumark
See Brandenburg-Küstrin
Neustadt Lordship c1420 Partitioned from C. of Leyen
1625: Line Extinct
To Trauttmansdorff
To Wallmoden
Nickenich Lordship 1611 1611: Partitioned from Saffig
1714: Annexed to Adendorf
Nidda County 1227 c1200: Inherited by Counts of Ziegenhein
1227: Partitioned from Ziegenhain
1333: Re-annexed to Ziegenhain
1450: Passed to Hesse
Niedermünster in Regensburg
(Niedermunster in Regensburg)
Abbacy
1675: HRE Princess-Abess
Bav 1500: Bavarian Circle
1793: Council of Princes
Nienburg County 1234 1582: Annexed to Brunswick-Calenberg
Nienburg RA
Nomeny Margraviate 1736: To House of Lorraine
Nordgau
see Lower Alsace
County
Nordgau Margraviate
Nordhausen Imperial City Low Sax RH 1253 1803: Mediatized to Brandenburg
Nördlingen Imperial City Swab SW 1215 1803: Mediatized to Bavaria
Nordmark
(Northern March)
Margraviate 860 1136: Refounded as Mg. of Brandenburg
Northeim County 1002 1165: Annexed to the Palatinate
Northern March
(See Nordmark)
Nostitz 1366: HRE Lordship
1631: HRE Barony
1692: HRE County
15th Century 1280: Earliest record of Lords of Nostitz
1673: Purchased County of Rieneck
Nürburg County 1144 1225: Annexed to Neuenahr
Nuremberg Burgraviate 1105 1105-1192: To Counts of Raab
1227: To Counts of Hohenzollern (by female succession and marriage)
1363: Received princely status
1415: Emperor pledged Margraviate of Brandenburg to Nuremberg
1417: Hohenzollerns enfeoffed with Brandenburg
1427: Burgraviate sold to city, except for Blutgericht
1440: Burgraviate of Nuremberg partitioned into Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth
1500: Franconian Circle
1806: Annexed by Bavaria
Nuremberg Imperial City Franc SW 1219 1505: Gained territory after Landshut War of Succession
1806: Annexed by Bavaria