List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (K)

This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter K:^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Name	Type	Imperial circle	Imperial diet	History
Käfernburg (Kevernburg)	County	n/a	n/a	1103: First mentioned; to Schwarzburg 1160: Partitioned from Schwarzburg 1184: Inherited Schwarzburg 1197: Partitioned into Schwarzburg, itself and Hallermund 1227: Partitioned into itself and Rabenswalde-Wiehe 1384: Extinct in male line 1387: Sold to Thuringia 1446: To Schwarzburg-Arnstadt Younger Line
Kaisheim (Kaisersheim)	Abbacy	Swab	SP / RP	1135: Formed 1346: Imperial immediacy, though not recognised by Bavaria 1656: Imperial immediacy recognised by Bavaria 1803: To Bavaria
Kalenberg see: Brunswick-Calenberg	Duchy
Katzenelnbogen	Lordship 1138: County	n/a	n/a	11th Century: Formed 1066: First mentioned as advocates of Prüm Abbey 1138: HRE Count 1190: Acquired Hohenstein c. 1215: Partitioned into itself and Hohenstein 1259: Acquired Dornberg 1260: Partitioned into Katzenelnbogen Elder Line and Katzenelnbogen Younger Line 1402: Reunited by Younger Line 1453: Acquired part of Diez (de) and Eppstein 1479: Extinct; to Hesse-Marburg
Katzenelnbogen Elder Line	County	n/a	n/a	1260: Partitioned from Katzenelnbogen 1284: Acquired St Goarshausen 1402: Extinct; to Katzenelnbogen Younger Line
Katzenelnbogen Younger Line	County	n/a	n/a	1260: Partitioned from Katzenelnbogen 1283: Acquired Brauback 1384: Much of the county pledged to the Archbishopric of Mainz 1402: Renamed to Katzenelnbogen
Kaufbeuren	Imperial City	Swab	SW	1286: Free Imperial City 1803: To Bavaria
Kaufungen	Abbacy	Upp Rhen	RP	1017: Formed 1089: Imperial immediacy 1527: Mediatised to Hesse 1533: To the Hessian Knighthood under Hesse
Kaunitz	1642: County	n/a	n/a	14th Century: First mentioned; possibly a branch of Stosch 1642: Moravian line made HRE Count 1699: Moravian line in succession dispute over Rietberg 1726: Moravian line acquired Rietberg; renamed to Kaunitz-Rietberg
Kaunitz-Rietberg HRE Prince of Kaunitz, Count of Rietberg & East Frisia, Lord of Esens, Stadesdorf, Wittmund & Melrich	County 1764: Principality	Low Rhen	WE	1726: Moravian line of the House of Kaunitz acquired Rietberg 1764: HRE Prince 1803: Bench of Princes 1807: To Westphalia 1813: To Prussia 1848: Extinct
Kaysersberg (Kaisersberg)	Imperial City	Upp Rhen	RH	1353: Free Imperial City 1648: To France
Kempten	Abbacy	Swab	EC	752 1062: Imperial immediacy 1524: HRE Prince-Abbey 1548: Bench of Spiritual Princes 1803: To Bavaria
Kempten	1289: Imperial Free City	Swab	SW	1289: Free Imperial City 1803: To Bavaria
Kerpen and Lommersum	Lordship 1713: Imperial County	Low Rhen	WE	1288: Territory of Brabant 1430: To Burgundy 1477: To the Burgundian Netherlands 1516: To the Spanish Netherlands 1710: To Palatinate-Neuburg (within Jülich) 1712: To Schaesberg as fief of Palatinate-Neuburg 1713: Imperial County 1786: Imperial immediacy; Bench of Counts of Westphalia 1794: To France
Kettershausen	Lordship	n/a	n/a	1556: To Fugger-Babenhausen 1806: To Bavaria
Khevenhüller-Metsch Khevenhuller-Metsch Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch, Count of Hochosterwitz, Baron of Landskron and Wernberg, etc.	County 1763: Principality	n/a	SC	1751: Line formed by a scion of the Khevenhüller family that inherited Metsch 1763: HRE Prince; Personalist vote in Bench of Counts of Swabia
Kirchberg Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count of Sayn and Wittgenstein, Lord of Farnrode	Burgraviate	Upp Rhen	WT	1149: Counts of Kapellendorf invested with the burgraviate of Kirchberg bei Jena 1294: Partitioned into Kirchberg-Windberg, Kirchberg-Kaulsdorf, Kirchberg-Greiffenberg and Kirchberg-Kapellendorf 1495: Reunited by Kirchberg-Altenberga 1714: Acquired Sayn-Hachenburg 1799: To Nassau-Weilburg
Kirchberg-Altenberga	Burgraviate	n/a	n/a	1427: Partitioned from Kirchberg-Greiffenberg 1461: Acquired Farnroda 1495: Renamed to Kirchberg
Kirchberg-Greiffenberg	Burgraviate	n/a	n/a	1294: Partitioned from Kirchberg 1412: Acquired Kranichfeld 1427: Partitioned into Kirchberg-Kranichfeld and Kirchberg-Altenberga
Kirchberg-Kapellenberg	Burgraviate	n/a	n/a	1294: Partitioned from Kirchberg 1304: Sold Kapellenberg to Erfurt 1362: Acquired Camburg 1393: Extinct; to Meissen
Kirchberg-Kaulsdorf	Burgraviate	n/a	n/a	1294: Partitioned from Kirchberg 1357: Extinct; to Weimar-Orlamünde
Kirchberg-Kranichfeld	Burgraviate	n/a	n/a	1427: Partitioned from Kirchberg-Greiffenberg 1455: Kranichfeld to Gleichen-Blankenhain 1495: Extinct; to Kirchberg-Altenberga
Kirchberg-Windberg	Burgraviate	n/a	n/a	1294: Partitioned from Kirchberg 1311: Extinct; to Kirchberg-Kaulsdorf and Kirchberg-Greiffenberg
Kirchberg (not to be confused with Burgraviate above)	County	n/a	n/a	11th Century: Formed 1087: First mentioned Early history of the counts is unclear; eventually formed the lines Kirchberg-Kirchberg, Kirchberg-Brandenburg and Kirchberg-Wullenstetten in the 12th Century
Kirchberg-Brandenburg	County	n/a	n/a	Partitioned from Kirchberg 1298: Extinct; to Austria 1313: To Ellersbach 1466: To Krafft 1481: To Rechberg 1539: To Fugger
Kirchberg-Kirchberg	County	n/a	n/a	Partitioned from Kirchberg 1366: Extinct; to Matsch 1399: To Kirchberg-Wullenstetten
Kirchberg-Wullenstetten	County	Swab	SC	Partitioned from Kirchberg 1399: Acquired Kirchberg-Kirchberg 1481: Half sold to Bavaria-Landshut 1503: Landshut half to Austria 1507: Landshut half to Fugger 1510: Extinct; rest to Fugger
Kirkel	Lordship	n/a	n/a	1075: First mentioned 1212: Partitioned from Saarwerden 1242: Extinct; divided between numerous heirs 1250: Most acquired by John of Siersberg who took the name Kirkel 1386: Extinct; to the Palatinate
Klettgau	County 1325: Landgraviate	Swab	SC	Originally a gau county of the Carolingian Empire 1040: To Habsburg 1280: To Habsburg-Laufenburg 1410: To Sulz 1687: To Schwarzenberg 1806: To Baden
Klingenmünster	Abbacy 1490: Provostry	Upp Rhen	RP	636 ? 1115: Imperial immediacy 1490: Provost 1567: To the Palatinate
Knyphausen (Kniphausen)	Barony 1653: County	n/a	n/a	Part of East Frisia 1588: Lord of Inhausen and Knyphausen made HRE Baron 1624: To Oldenburg 1653: HRE Count 1667: To Aldenburg 1738: To Aldenburg-Bentinck 1807: To Holland 1810: To France 1813: To Oldenburg 1826: To Aldenburg-Bentinck with limited sovereignty 1854: To Oldenburg
Koblenz (Coblenz / Coblence)	Bailiwick of the Teutonic Order	El Rhin	n/a	1216: Teutonic Order received land in fief from the Archbishopric of Trier 1263: Acquired Elsen 1313: Acquired Waldbreitbach 1613: Acquired Morsbroich 1794: Left-bank territory to France 1806-9: Rest to Berg and Nassau
Koevorden (Coevorden)	Lordship
Kolb von Wartenberg (Kolbe)	Lordship	n/a	n/a	12th Century: First mentioned; ministerialis of Franconia 1699: HRE County; renamed to Wartenberg
Königsbronn	Abbacy	Swab	SP	1303: Formed 15th Century?: Imperial immediacy 1553: Mediatised to Württemberg 1710: Abolished
Königsegg (Konigsegg) HRE Count of Königsegg & Rothenfels, Baron of Aulendorf & Stauffen, Lord of Ebenweiler & Wald in Swabia	Lordship 1621:Barony 1629: County	Swab	SC	c. 1171: First mentioned as a property of the Lords of Fronhofen c. 1251: Partitioned from Fronhofen 1381: Acquired Aulendorf 1595: Acquired Rothenfels 1621: HRE Baron 1622: Partitioned into Königsegg-Rothenfels and Königsegg-Aulendorf
Königsegg-Aulendorf	Barony 1629: County	Swab	SC	1622: Partitioned from Königsegg 1629: HRE County 1806: To Württemberg
Königsegg-Rothenfels	Barony 1629: County	Swab	SC	1622: Partitioned from Königsegg 1629: HRE County 1804: To Austria; acquired Boros-Sebiș as fief of Hungary
Königsfeld (Black Forest)
Konstanz (Constance)	Prince-Bishopric	Swab	EC	585 1155: HRE Prince of the Empire 1803: To Baden
Konstanz (Constance)	1192: Imperial Free City	Swab	SW	1192: Free Imperial City 1548: To Austria 1805: To Baden
Konzenberg	Lordship	n/a	n/a	1305: To Burgau 1351: To Halder 1361: To Waldkirch 13??: To Villenbach 13??: To the Bishopric of Augsburg 1454: To Grafeneck 1456: To Stain 1457: to Westernach 1511: To Knöringen 1524: To Augsburg 1530: To Baumgartner 16??: To ? 1684: To the Bishopric of Augsburg 1803: To Bavaria
Kornelimünster (Cornelimünster; St Kornelimünster)	Abbacy	Low Rhen	RP	614 9th Century: Imperial immediacy 1795: To France
Kranenburg	County	n/a	n/a	1255: Partitioned from Cleves 1277: Extinct; to Cleves
Krautheim	Lordship 1803: HRE Principality of Krautheim and Gerlachsheim	n/a	n/a	c. 1213: Mentioned as belonging to Lords of Krautheim 1399: To the Archbishopric of Mainz 1803: To Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim 1806: To Württemberg
Kreuzlingen	Abbacy	Swab	SP	c. 1125: Formed 1145: Imperial immediacy 1648: To Switzerland
Kriechingen (Criechingen)	Barony	n/a	n/a	c. 1150: First mention of Lords of Kriechingen, fiefs of Lorraine 1239: Partitioned into itself and Helfedange 1295: To Torcheville who assumed the name Kriechingen 13th Century: HRE Baron 1557: Partitioned into Kriechingen-Püttlingen-Bacourt and Kriechingen-Homburg-Bruchkastel
Kriechingen-Homburg-Bruchkastel	Barony 1617: County	Upp Rhen	n/a	1557: Partitioned from Kriechingen 1617: HRE Count; Imperial immediacy in core lands; Upper Rhenish Circle 1697: Extinct; to East Frisia To Wied-Runkel 1793: To France
Kriechingen-Püttlingen-Bacourt	Barony	n/a	n/a	1557: Partitioned from Kriechingen 1681: Extinct; to Salm-Reifferscheid
Kronburg	Lordship			1460: Partitioned from Aichen 1540: Partitioned into Osterberg, Schwabeck and Weissenstein
Kuefstein-Greillenstein Count of Kuefstein, Baron of Greillenstein, of Hohenkraen, etc.	1709: County (Personalist)	n/a	FR	1602: HRE Baron 1654?: HRE Count 1709: Bench of Counts of Franconia (personalist vote)
Kulmbach	Lordship			1057-1234: To Andechs-Meran 1248: To Counts of Orlamunde 1340: To Hohenzollern Burgraves of Nuremberg 1792: To Prussia 1807: French occupation 1810: To Bavaria
Kyburg (Kiburg)	County	n/a	n/a	11th century: Formed c. 1053: Counts of Winterthur-Kyburg extinct; to Dillingen by marriage 1180: Partitioned from Dillingen 1218: Acquired left-bank territory of Zähringen 1273: To Habsburg-Laufenburg by marriage 1274: Partitioned from Habsburg-Laufenburg (Neu-Kyburg) 1379: Most to Austria 1384: Fief of Bern 1417: Extinct
Kyrburg	Wildgraviate	n/a	n/a	1258: Partitioned from the Wildgraviate 1284: Partitioned into itself and Schmidtburg 1419: Extinct; to Stein

References

^ For Kammin see: Cammin as for Kammin see: Cammin.
^ For Kärnten see: Carinthia.
^ For Kleve see: Cleves.
^ For Köln see: Cologne.

[1] For Kammin see: Cammin as for Kammin see: Cammin.

[2] For Kärnten see: Carinthia.

[3] For Kleve see: Cleves.

[4] For Köln see: Cologne.

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