Principality of Bayreuth

The Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth) was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Since Burgrave Frederick VI of Nuremberg was enfeoffed with the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415/17, the Hohenzollern princes transferred the margravial title to their Franconian possessions, though the principality never had been a march. Until 1604 they used Plassenburg Castle in Kulmbach as their residence, hence their territory was officially called the Principality of Kulmbach or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach until the Empire's dissolution in 1806.

Principality of Bayreuth/
Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Fürstentum Bayreuth/Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach (German)

Principality

Kulmbach until 1604,
Bayreuth from 1604

Principality

John III, Burgrave of Nuremberg

Christian Frederick,
Margrave of
Brandenburg-Ansbach

Middle Ages

21 January 1398

1420–40

1500

1655–1726

20 January 1769

2 December 1791

1398:

John III of Nuremberg

1420:

Frederick I of Brandenburg

1440:

John IV the Alchemist

1457: (also Margrave of Brandenburg from 1470)

Albert I Achilles

1486:

Siegmund

1495: (also Margrave of Ansbach as Friedrich I)

Frederick III

1515:

Casimir

1527:

Albert Alcibiades

1553: (also Margrave of Ansbach)

George Frederick

1603:

Christian

1655:

Christian Ernst

1712:

George William

1726: (previously Margrave of Kulmbach from 1708)

George Frederick Charles

1735:

Frederick

1763:

Frederick Christian

1769: (to 1791; also Margrave of Ansbach)

Charles Alexander

Germans in the American Revolution § Ansbach-Bayreuth

Doehla, Johann Conrad (1990). . Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne from the 1913 Bayreuth edition by W. Baron von Waldenfels. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-80612254-4. OCLC 722636758.

Principality of Bayreuth