Back إمارة بايرويت Arabic Байройт (княжество) Bulgarian Principat de Bayreuth Catalan Bayreuthské knížectví Czech Fürstentum Bayreuth German Princlando Bayreuth Esperanto Principado de Bayreuth Spanish Bayreuthi vürstkond Estonian Principauté de Bayreuth French נסיכות ביירוית HE
Principality of Bayreuth/ Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach Fürstentum Bayreuth/Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach (German) | |||||||||
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| 1398–1791 | |||||||||
 Principality of Brandenburg-Bayreuth as at 1791, when it was sold to Prussia | |||||||||
| Status | Principality | ||||||||
| Capital | Kulmbach until 1604, Bayreuth from 1604 | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Margrave | |||||||||
• 1398–1420 (first) | John III, Burgrave of Nuremberg | ||||||||
• 1769–91 (last) | Christian Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Partitioned from Burgraviate of Nuremberg | 21 January 1398 | ||||||||
• Reunited with Ansbach | 1420–40 | ||||||||
• Joined Franconian Circle | 1500 | ||||||||
• Partitioned in twain | 1655–1726 | ||||||||
• Line extinct; inherited by Ansbach | 20 January 1769 | ||||||||
• Ansbach and Bayreuth sold to Prussia | 2 December 1791 | ||||||||
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The Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth) was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Since Burgrave Frederick VI of Nuremberg was enfeoffed with the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415/17, the Hohenzollern princes transferred the margravial title to their Franconian possessions, though the principality never had been a march. Until 1604 they used Plassenburg Castle in Kulmbach as their residence, hence their territory was officially called the Principality of Kulmbach or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach until the Empire's dissolution in 1806.