Anhalt-Harzgerode
Also known as Principality of Anhalt-Harzgerode
Anhalt-Harzgerode was a small principality of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Harzgerode in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It was created in 1635 following the partition of Anhalt-Bernburg with Frederick, a younger son of Prince Christian I becoming the reigning prince. The death of Frederick's son Prince William Louis in 1709 resulted in the extinction of the ruling family and Anhalt-Harzgerode was reunited with Anhalt-Bernburg.
Key facts
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Principality of Anhalt-Harzgerode
- Former country.common_name
- Anhalt-Harzgerode
- Former country.image_coat
- Blason Principautés d'Anhalt (XVIIe siècle).svg
- Former country.symbol
- Coat of arms of Saxony-Anhalt
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- 17th century armsof Anhalt principalities
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- Map of Anhalt (1747-1793).svg
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- Anhalt territories 1747-1793, Anhalt-Bernburg (of which Anhalt-Harzgerode was a smaller part) in blue
- Former country.status
- Principality
- Former country.empire
- Holy Roman Empire
- Former country.year_start
- 1635
- Former country.year_end
- 1709
Article
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Princes of Anhalt-Harzgerode
- See also
- References
Anhalt-Harzgerode was a small principality of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Harzgerode in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It was created in 1635 following the partition of Anhalt-Bernburg with Frederick, a younger son of Prince Christian I becoming the reigning prince. The death of Frederick's son Prince William Louis in 1709 resulted in the extinction of the ruling family and Anhalt-Harzgerode was reunited with Anhalt-Bernburg.
==History== thumb|left|Harzgerode Castle Prince Christian I ruled in Bernburg since he and his brothers had divided their Anhalt heritage in 1603. He turned to Calvinism and in 1608 founded the Protestant Union with the Lutheran princes, as deputy of Elector Palatine Frederick IV. In the beginning Thirty Years' War, he led the Bohemian army of Frederick's son Frederick V into the 1620 Battle of White Mountain, suffering a disastrous defeat. Temporarily banned and exiled in Sweden, he could not return to Bernburg until 1624.