County of Bretzenheim

Imperial County of Bretzenheim
*Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim**
Imperial County of Bretzenheim Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*
1790–1804
	Coat of arms of Bretzenheim
Status	County
Capital	Bretzenheim
Common languages	West Central German
Government	County
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars
• Partitioned from the ; Electorate of the Palatinate	; 1790 1790
• Raised to princely county	1789
• Part-mediatised to ; Hesse-Darmstadt; granted ; County of Lindau am Bodensee	; ; 1803
• Mediatised to Austria	1804
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Electorate of the Palatinate
Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Archduchy of Austria
	* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Prince Charles Augustus (1769-1823) of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim, son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate.

Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance (former imperial city of Lindau) was mediatised to Austria in 1804.

Before 1789-1790 it was an Imperial Lordship and it had some important rulers, including Ambrosius Franz, Count of Virmont. In 1772 the Elector of Palatinate bought the Lordship (Imperial County 1774 ) for his son.

Prince of Bretzenheim

Charles Augustus (1790–1804)

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