List And Brief History of the German States, Grand Duchies, Principalities, etc before 1806......Page U. Remmick-Hubert Site
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Vaduz. See Liechtenstein
Vargula. See Schenken von Tautenberg and
Varula.
Verden. Presently in Reigerungsbezirk Stade,
Niedersachsen and on the Alder River. Formerly Richsstadt and bishopric listed
in 789... In the Peace of Westphalia it was represented by Osnabrueck
in the Catholic corpus. In 1648 the territories were secularized and
Sweden held the vote in the Reichstag until 1719 when the vote was taken
by the ruling house of Hannover....
Verdun. Presently in the Department of Meuse,
France. Formerly Reichsstadt and bishopric. In the Peace of
Westphalia they were a member of the Catholic corpus. In 1552
it passed to the French king as a protectorate by a Protestant
prince....
Virneburg. Presently in Kreis Mayen-Koblenz,
Reheinland-Pfalz (Palatinate). The Protestant family von
Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (Virenburg) were representives. There
was another branch which was Catholic. See Loewentstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
and Rosenberg.
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