The so-called Rittersturm (lit. 'knight storm') was the illegal seizure of the Imperially immediate territories of the Imperial Knights within the Holy...

been seized by the great territorial states in 1803 in the so-called Rittersturm. "Secularization" was the abolition of the temporal power of an ecclesiastical...

promised other estates, including the city of Nuremberg. In the so-called Rittersturm of 1803, Bavaria, Württemberg and Baden seized the territories of the...

Imperial Knights, who had survived the attack on their rights in the Rittersturm of 1803–04, were subject to a second attack and a spate of annexations...

great territorial states like Bavaria and Württemberg in the so-called Rittersturm. In 1806, the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine gave the great...

republic of Dithmarschen (until incorporated into Holstein in 1559) Rittersturm Imperial Circles in the 16th Century Historical Maps of Germany Nicht...

the Prince of Leiningen, followed suit. This came to be known as the Rittersturm. By autumn 1803, the majority of the knightly estates were de facto annexed...

into what was now the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1803, in the so-called Rittersturm ("Knights' Assault"), the great territorial states of Bavaria, Württemberg...