List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (C)

This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter C:

Name	Type	Circle	Bench	Formed	Notes
Calvelage	County	n/a	n/a	1072	1170: Renamed to Ravensberg
Calw	County			c. 1050?	1075: 1st mention of Calw 1155: Acquired Lowenstein 1189: Acquired Vaihingen Division into Calw-Lowenstein and Calw-Vaihingen 1277: Counts of Calw-Lowenstein died out; territories purchased by an illegitimate branch of the Habsburgs 1282: Counts of Calw died out; territories inherited by Counts of Tübingen 1361: Counts of Calw-Vaihingen died out; territories inherited by Counts of Wurttemberg
Cambrai	Bishopric	Low Rhen	EC		1007: Imperial immediacy 1543: To Spain 1677: To France
Cambrai	Imperial City	Burg			1677: Annexed to France
Cammin	1176: Bishopric 1628: Principality	Upp Sax	EC		1274: Acquired Lübeck city rights 1556: Secularized to Pomerania-Wolgast 1648: To Sweden 1679: Brandenburg
Cappenberg	County	n/a	n/a	10th - 11th Century	1122: Rhenish possessions to Cappenberg Abbey and Ilbenstadt Abbey 1124: Swabian possessions to Swabia
Carinthia	788: Margraviate 976: Duchy	Aust	PR	876; 927; 976; 995	1286: To Counts of Gorizia-Tyrol 1335: To Habsburg Austria
Carniola	955: Margraviate 1364: Duchy	Aust	PR	828, 955, 1040	955: fief March of the Patriarch of Aquileia 1054: Emperor Henry II creates a separate Carniola as a fief duchy of Carinthia 1071-1090: To Aquileia 1237-1251: Imperial Administration 1259-1269: To Aquileia 1270: To Austria 1805-1806: French occupation
Castell	1202/5: County	Franc	FR	1054: First mentioned	1266: Partitioned into Castell-Unterschloss and Castell-Oberschloss 1331: Castell-Unterschloss extinct; Castell reunited by Castell-Oberschloss 1546: Partitioned into Castell-Castell, Castell-Remlingen and Castell-Rüdenhausen
Castell-Castell	County	Franc	FR	1546: Partitioned from Castell	1577: Extinct; divided between Castell-Remlingen and Castell-Rüdenhausen 1668: Partitioned from Castell-Remlingen 1717: Extinct; to Castell-Remlingen 1718: Partitioned from Castell-Remlingen 1772: Renamed to Castell-Remlingen
Castell-Oberschloss	County	n/a	n/a	1266: Partitioned from Castell	1331: Renamed to Castell after inheriting Castell-Unterschloss
Castell-Rehweiler	County	Franc	FR	1718: Partitioned from Castell-Remlingen	1772: Extinct; to Castell-Castell
Castell-Remlingen	County	Franc	FR	1546: Partitioned from Castell	1595: Extinct; to Castell-Rüdenhausen 1597: Partitioned from Castell-Rüdenhausen 1668: Partitioned into itself and Castell-Castell 1718: Partitioned into itself, Castell-Castell, and Castell-Rehweiler 1762: Extinct; to Castell-Castell 1772: Renamed from Castell-Castell 1803: Partitioned into itself and Castell-Rüdenhausen 1806: To Bavaria
Castell-Rüdenhausen	County	Franc	FR	1546: Partitioned from Castell	1597: Partitioned into Castell-Remlingen and itself 1803: Extinct; to Castell-Remlingen 1803: Partitioned from Castell-Remlingen 1806: To Bavaria
Castell-Unterschloss	County	n/a	n/a	1266: Partitioned from Castell	1331: Extinct; to Castell-Oberschloss
Castels	High Jurisdiction
Chablais	1310: Duchy	n/a	n/a	1035	Originally property of St Maurice's Abbey 1035: To Savoy 1475: Half to Bern 1536: Other half to Bern 1569: All to Savoy 1792: To France
Chatelot	Lordship
Chiemsee	Bishopric	n/a	n/a	1215	Held administrative functions in the Archbishopric of Salzburg 1803: To Grand Duchy of Salzburg and Bavaria 1808: Abolished
Chur	Bishopric	Aust	EC	1170	958: Territorial rights 1798: Annexed to the Helvetic Republic
Churwalden	Jurisdiction
Cilly (Cilli)	1341: County 1436: HRE Principality of Cilli and Ortenburg	n/a	n/a		1456: Counts of Cilli died out; estates inherited by Habsburgs
Cläven	Lordship	n/a	n/a	909	Partitioned in 950
Clémont	Lordship
Cleves (Kleve)	1000's: County 1417: Duchy	Low Rhen	PR	719	1368: United with County of Mark 1521: United with Julich, Berg and Mark 1609: War of Succession 1614 to Brandenburg ?-1672: Occupied by United Provinces 1795: French occupation 1815: To Prussia
Cleves-Ravenstein	Barony	n/a	n/a	1450: Partitioned from Cleves-Marck	1528: Extinct; to Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Colloredo	Principality (personalist)	Swab	SC	1031	1031: Invested with Mels as fief of Patriarchate of Aquileia 1588: HRE Barons 1629-1734: HRE Counts 1741: Bench of Counts of Swabia (Personalist) 1763: HRE Prince 1788: Renamed to Colloredo-Mansfeld
Colloredo-Mansfeld	Principality (personalist)	Swab	SC	1788: Renamed from Colloredo	1803: Purchased a portion of Limpurg, and Rieneck 1806: Limpurg to Württemberg, Rieneck to Archbishopric of Regensburg
Colmar	Imperial City	Upp Rhen	RH	1226: Free Imperial City	1679: To France
Cologne Köln	Archbishopric 1356: HRE Prince-Elector	El Rhin	EL	954	1180: HRE Duke 1356: HRE Elector 1794: Left bank to France 1803: Secularised; Westphalia to Hesse-Darmstadt and Nassau-Orange-Fulda, Vest Recklinghausen to Arenberg
Cologne	Free City	Low Rhen	RH	1288: Free Imperial City	1794: Annexed to France 1815: to Prussia
Comburg	Imperial Abbey	Franc	SC	1078	13th Century?: Imperial immediacy 1484: Fief of the Bishopric of Würzburg 1488: Converted into Provostry 1583: Fief of Württemberg 1803: Secularised
Cornelimünster See: Kornelimünster	Abbacy
Corvey (Korvey)	877: Abbey c1582: Prince-Abbot 1783: Prince-Bishopric 1803: Principality	Low Rhen	EC	877	c. 1150: Imperial immediacy 1783: Converted to a Bishopric 1803: Secularized to Nassau-Orange-Fulda 1807: To Westphalia 1815: To Prussia
Cottbus	Lordship	n/a	n/a		1156: 1st mention of Cottbus 1199-1445: To Lords of Cottbus 1462: To Prince-Electors of Brandenburg
Croy Dukes of Croÿ, HRE Prince	Duchy 1767: HRE Prince	Low Rhen	PR		1590: non-immediate Counts of Solre in the Spanish Low Countries 1677: Prince of Solre in the Spanish Low Countries 1767 non-immediate Dukes of Croÿ in France 1803: immediate Lords of Dülmen 1806: To Arenberg 1810: To France 1815: To Prussia

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