Confederation of the Rhine
Member monarchies -- College of Kings
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Member monarchy

Year joined

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Grand Duchy of Baden

12 Jul 1806

Co-founder; former margraviate (8,000)

Kingdom of Bavaria

12 Jul 1806

Co-founder; former duchy (30,000)

Grand Duchy of Berg

12 Jul 1806

Co-founder; absorbed Cleves, both formerly Duchies (5,000)

Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt

12 Jul 1806

Co-founder; former landgraviate (4,000)

Principality of Regensburg

12 Jul 1806

Co-founder; formerly Prince-Archbishopric and Electorate; after 1810 the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt (968 of 4,000)

Kingdom of Saxony

11 Dec 1806

Former electorate (20,000)

Kingdom of Westphalia

15 Nov 1807

Napoleonic creation (25,000)

Kingdom of Württemberg

12 Jul 1806

Co-founder; former duchy (12,000)

Grand Duchy of Würzburg

23 Sep 1806

Napoleonic creation (2,000)

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The Grand Duchy of Baden ( German : Großherzogtum Baden ) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine . It existed between 1806 and 1918 . It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subsequently split into different lines , which were unified in 1771 . It then became the much-enlarged Grand Duchy of Baden through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803-1806 and was a sovereign country until it joined the German Empire in 1871 , remaining a Grand Duchy until 1918 when it became part of the Weimar Republic as the Republic of Baden . Baden was bordered to the north by the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt ; to the west , along most of its length , by the river Rhine , which separated Baden from the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate and Alsace in modern France ; to the south by Switzerland ; and to the east by the Kingdom of Württemberg , the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Bavaria . After World War II , the French military government in 1945 created the state of Baden ( originally known as South Baden ) out of the southern half of the former Baden , with Freiburg as its capital . This portion of the former Baden was declared in its 1947 constitution to be the true successor of the old Baden . The northern half of the old Baden was combined with northern Württemberg , becoming part of the American military zone , and formed the state of Württemberg-Baden . Both Baden and Württemberg-Baden became states of West Germany upon its formation in 1949 . In 1952 Baden merged with Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern ( southern Württemberg and the former Prussian exclave of Hohenzollern ) to form Baden-Württemberg . This is the only merger of states that has taken place in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany . The unofficial anthem of Baden is called Badnerlied ( Song of the People of Baden ) and consists of four or five traditional verses .
Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom . That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the Empire , and the title came to be borne by rulers of some Imperial principalities until the abolition of the Empire in 1806 ( e.g. , Margrave of Brandenburg , Margrave of Baden ) . Thereafter , those domains ( originally known as marks or marches , later as margraviates or margravates ) were absorbed in larger realms or the titleholders adopted titles indicative of full sovereignty .
The Kingdom of Bavaria ( German : Königreich Bayern ; Austro-Bavarian : Kinereich Bayern ) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918 . The Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of the House of Wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1805 as Maximilian I Joseph . The crown would go on being held by the Wittelsbachs until the kingdom came to an end in 1918 . Most of Bavaria 's present-day borders were established after 1814 with the Treaty of Paris , in which Bavaria ceded Tyrol and Vorarlberg to the Austrian Empire while receiving Aschaffenburg and Würzburg . With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871 , the kingdom became a federal state of the new Empire and was second in size , power , and wealth only to the leading state , the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1918 , Bavaria became a republic , and the kingdom was thus succeeded by the current Free State of Bavaria .
A duchy is a medieval country , territory , fief , or domain ruled by a duke or duchess , a high-ranking nobleman hierarchically second to the king or queen in European tradition . The term is used almost exclusively in Europe , where in the present day there is no sovereign duchy ( i.e . with the status of a nation state ) left . The term duke ( like the corresponding duchy ) should not be confused with the title Grand Duke ( or Grand Duchy , such as the present-day Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ) , as there exists a significant difference of rank between the two . In common European cultural heritage , a grand duke is the third highest monarchic rank , after emperor and king . Its synonym in many Slavic and Baltic European languages ( Russian , Lithuanian , etc . ) is translated as Grand Prince , whereas most Germanic and Romance European languages ( English , French , Spanish , Italian etc . ) use expressions corresponding to Grand Duke . Unlike a duke , the sovereign grand duke is considered royalty ( or in German , 'royal nobility ' , Königsadel ) . The proper form of address for a grand duke is His Royal Highness ( HRH ) , whereas for a non-royal duke in the United Kingdom it is His Grace . In contrast to this , the rank of a duke differs from one country to the next . In Germany , for example , a duke is listed in the aristocratic hierarchy below an emperor ( Kaiser ) , king ( König ) , grand duke ( Großherzog ) , and elector ( Kurfürst ) - in that order - whereas in Britain the duke comes third after king/queen and prince ( there are no British grand dukes or electors ) .
The Grand Duchy of Berg ( German : Großherzogtum Berg ) , also known as the Grand Duchy of Berg and Cleves , was a territorial grand duchy established in 1806 by Emperor Napoleon after his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz ( 1805 ) on territories between the French Empire at the Rhine river and the German Kingdom of Westphalia .
The Duchy of Cleves ( German : Herzogtum Kleve ; Dutch : Hertogdom Kleef ) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval Hettergau [ de ] . It was situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine , around its capital Cleves and the towns of Wesel , Kalkar , Xanten , Emmerich , Rees and Duisburg bordering the lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west . Its history is closely related to that of its southern neighbours : the Duchies of Jülich and Berg , as well as Guelders and the Westphalian county of Mark . The Duchy was archaically known as Cleveland in English . The duchy 's territory roughly covered the present-day German districts of Cleves ( northern part ) , Wesel and the city of Duisburg , as well as adjacent parts of the Limburg , North Brabant and Gelderland provinces in the Netherlands .
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine ( German : Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein ) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 ( the period of German mediatization ) to the end of the German Empire in 1918 . The grand duchy originally formed on the basis of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse ( German : Großherzogtum Hessen ) . After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 , it changed its name in 1816 to distinguish itself from the Electorate of Hesse , which had formed from neighboring Hesse-Kassel . Colloquially , the grand duchy continued to be known by its former name of Hesse-Darmstadt . It joined the German Empire in 1871 and became a republic after German defeat in World War I in 1918 .
Landgrave ( German : Landgraf , Dutch : landgraaf , Swedish : lantgreve , French : landgrave ; Latin : comes magnus , comes patriae , comes provinciae , comes terrae , comes principalis , lantgravius ) was a noble title used in the Holy Roman Empire , and later on in its former territories . The German titles of Landgraf , Markgraf ( margrave ) , and Pfalzgraf ( count palatine ) are in the same class of ranks as Herzog ( duke ) and above the rank of a Graf ( count ) .
The Principality of Regensburg ( German : Fürstentum Regensburg ) was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1803 ; following the dissolution of the Empire in 1806 , it was part of the Confederation of the Rhine until 1810 . Its capital was Regensburg .
A prince-bishop is a bishop who is also the civil ruler of some secular principality and sovereignty . Thus the principality or prince-bishopric ruled politically by a prince-bishop could wholly or largely overlap with his diocesan jurisdiction , since some parts of his diocese , even the city of his residence , could be exempt from his civil rule , obtaining the status of free imperial city . If the episcopal see is an archbishop , the correct term is prince-archbishop ; the equivalent in the regular ( monastic ) clergy is prince-abbot . A prince-bishop is usually considered an elected monarch . In the West , with the decline of imperial power from the 4th century onwards in the face of the barbarian invasions , sometimes Christian bishops of cities took the place of the Roman commander , made secular decisions for the city and led their own troops when necessary . Later relations between a prince-bishop and the burghers were invariably not cordial . As cities demanded charters from emperors , kings , or their prince-bishops and declared themselves independent of the secular territorial magnates , friction intensified between burghers and bishops . In the Byzantine Empire , the still autocratic Emperors passed general legal measures assigning all bishops certain rights and duties in the secular administration of their dioceses , possibly as part of a development to put the Eastern Church in the service of the Empire [ citation needed ] , with its Ecumenical Patriarch almost reduced to the Emperor 's minister of religious affairs .
The Prince-electors ( German : Kurfürst ( listen ( help·info ) ) , pl . Kurfürsten , Czech : Kurfiřt , Latin : Princeps Elector ) of the Holy Roman Empire , or Electors for short , were the members of the electoral college that elected the Holy Roman Emperor . From the 13th century onwards , the Prince-Electors had the privilege of electing the monarch who would receive the coronation at the hands of the Pope . After 1508 , the election was sufficient to acquire the Imperial title without Papal coronation . Charles V was the last person to be a crowned Emperor ( elected 1519 , crowned 1530 ) ; his successors were only elected Emperors by the electoral college , each being titled Elected Emperor of the Romans ( German : erwählter Römischer Kaiser ; Latin : electus Romanorum imperator ) . In practice , election by the princely electoral college was merely a de jure requirement . De facto the Imperial throne followed the order of succession of the Austrian House of Habsburg : every emperor from 1440 onwards came from the House of Austria except for Charles VII ( r. 1742-1745 ) and Francis I ( r. 1745-1765 ) , both of whom were related to the Habsburgs by blood or marriage . In the end , the Electors merely ratified such inheritance . The dignity of Elector carried great prestige and was considered to be second only to that of King or Emperor . The Electors held exclusive privileges that were not shared with other princes of the Empire , and they continued to hold their original titles alongside that of Elector . The heir apparent to a secular prince-elector was known as an electoral prince ( German : Kurprinz ) .
The Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was a German satellite state of Napoleonic creation . It came into existence in 1810 through the combination of the former territories of the Archbishopric of Mainz along with the Free City of Frankfurt itself .
The Kingdom of Saxony ( German : Königreich Sachsen ) , lasting between 1806 and 1918 , was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany . The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxony . From 1871 it was part of the German Empire . It became a free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War I and the abdication of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony . Its capital was the city of Dresden , and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony .
The Prince-electors ( German : Kurfürst ( listen ( help·info ) ) , pl . Kurfürsten , Czech : Kurfiřt , Latin : Princeps Elector ) of the Holy Roman Empire , or Electors for short , were the members of the electoral college that elected the Holy Roman Emperor . From the 13th century onwards , the Prince-Electors had the privilege of electing the monarch who would receive the coronation at the hands of the Pope . After 1508 , the election was sufficient to acquire the Imperial title without Papal coronation . Charles V was the last person to be a crowned Emperor ( elected 1519 , crowned 1530 ) ; his successors were only elected Emperors by the electoral college , each being titled Elected Emperor of the Romans ( German : erwählter Römischer Kaiser ; Latin : electus Romanorum imperator ) . In practice , election by the princely electoral college was merely a de jure requirement . De facto the Imperial throne followed the order of succession of the Austrian House of Habsburg : every emperor from 1440 onwards came from the House of Austria except for Charles VII ( r. 1742-1745 ) and Francis I ( r. 1745-1765 ) , both of whom were related to the Habsburgs by blood or marriage . In the end , the Electors merely ratified such inheritance . The dignity of Elector carried great prestige and was considered to be second only to that of King or Emperor . The Electors held exclusive privileges that were not shared with other princes of the Empire , and they continued to hold their original titles alongside that of Elector . The heir apparent to a secular prince-elector was known as an electoral prince ( German : Kurprinz ) .
The Kingdom of Westphalia was a kingdom in Germany , with a population of 2.6 million , that existed from 1807 to 1813 . It included territory in Hesse and other parts of present-day Germany . While formally independent , it was a vassal state of the First French Empire and was ruled by Napoleon 's brother Jérôme Bonaparte . It was named after Westphalia , but this was a misnomer since the kingdom had little territory in common with that area ; rather the kingdom mostly covered territory formerly known as Eastphalia . Napoleon imposed the first written modern constitution in Germany , a French-style central administration , and agricultural reform . The Kingdom liberated the serfs and gave everyone equal rights and the right to a jury trial . In 1808 the Kingdom passed Germany 's first laws granting Jews equal rights , thereby providing a model for reform in the other German states . Westphalia seemed to be progressive in immediately enacting and enforcing the new reforms . The country was relatively poor but Napoleon demanded heavy taxes and payments and conscripted soldiers . Few of the men who marched into Russia with Napoleon in 1812 ever returned . The Kingdom was bankrupt by 1812 . When Napoleon was retreating in the face of Allied advances in 1813 , the Kingdom was overrun by the Allies and ( in 1815 ) most of its territories became Prussian ruled .
Napoléon Bonaparte [ a ] ( /nəˈpoʊliən ˈboʊnəpɑːrt/ , French : [ napɔleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt ] ; 15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821 ) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars . He was Emperor of the French as Napoleon I from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days . Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars . He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles , building a large empire that ruled over much of continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815 . He is considered one of the greatest commanders in history , and his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide . Napoleon 's political and cultural legacy has endured as one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in human history . He was born Napoleone Buonaparte ( Italian : [ napoleˈoːne ˌbwɔnaˈparte ] ) in Corsica to a relatively modest Italian family from minor nobility . He was serving as an artillery officer in the French army when the French Revolution erupted in 1789 . He rapidly rose through the ranks of the military , seizing the new opportunities presented by the Revolution and becoming a general at age 24 . The French Directory eventually gave him command of the Army of Italy after he suppressed the 13 Vendémiaire revolt against the government from royalist insurgents . At age 26 , he began his first military campaign against the Austrians and the Italian monarchs aligned with the Habsburgs - winning virtually every battle , conquering the Italian Peninsula in a year while establishing sister republics with local support , and becoming a war hero in France . In 1798 , he led a military expedition to Egypt that served as a springboard to political power .
The Kingdom of Württemberg ( German : Königreich Württemberg [ ˌkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈvʏɐ̯tm̩bɛɐ̯k ] ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918 , located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg . The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg , which existed from 1495 to 1805 . Prior to 1495 , Württemberg was a county in the former Duchy of Swabia , which had dissolved after the death of Duke Conradin in 1268 . The borders of the Kingdom of Württemberg , as defined in 1813 , lay between 47°34 ' and 49°35 ' north and 8°15 ' and 10°30 ' east . The greatest distance north to south comprised 225 kilometres ( 140 mi ) and the greatest east to west was 160 km ( 99 mi ) . The border had a total length of 1,800 km ( 1,100 mi ) and the total area of the state was 19,508 km2 ( 7,532 sq mi ) . The kingdom had borders with Bavaria on the east and south , with Baden in the north , west , and south . The southern part surrounded the Prussian province of Hohenzollern on most of its sides and touched on Lake Constance .
The Grand Duchy of Würzburg ( German : Großherzogtum Würzburg ) was a German grand duchy centered on Würzburg existing in the early 19th century . As a consequence of the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville , the Bishopric of Würzburg was secularized in 1803 and granted to the Electorate of Bavaria . In the same year Ferdinand III , former Grand Duke of Tuscany , was compensated with the Electorate of Salzburg . In the Peace of Pressburg of 26 December 1805 , Ferdinand lost Salzburg to the Austrian Empire but was compensated with the Würzburg territory , Bavaria having relinquished it in return for Tyrol . Ferdinand 's state was briefly known as the Electorate of Würzburg ( Kurfürstentum Würzburg ) , but it was elevated to the status of a Grand Duchy after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire on 6 August 1806 . It joined the Confederation of the Rhine on 30 September 1806 . In 1810 it acquired Schweinfurt . After Napoleon 's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig , Ferdinand dissolved his alliance with the First French Empire on 26 October 1813 . Through an Austrian-Bavarian treaty of 3 June 1814 , Ferdinand lost his possessions to the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy was dissolved . Ferdinand was restored to a reconstituted Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna . The Roman Catholic Diocese of Würzburg was reestablished in 1821 without temporal power .