County of Bretzenheim
Imperial County of Bretzenheim Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim* | |||||||||||
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| 1790–1804 | |||||||||||
| Status | County | ||||||||||
| Capital | Bretzenheim | ||||||||||
| Common languages | West Central German | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||||
| 1790 1790 | |||||||||||
• Raised to princely county | 1789 | ||||||||||
| 1803 | |||||||||||
• Mediatised to Austria | 1804 | ||||||||||
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* 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, illegitimate son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate and Josepha von Heydeck.