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			1072	1170: Annexed to Ravensberg
20px Calw	County				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
20px Cambrai	Bishopric	Low Rhen
20px Cambrai	Imperial City	Burg			1677: Annexed to France
Cammin	1176: Bishopric 1628: Principality	Upp Sax			1274: Acquired Lübeck city rights 1556: Secularized to Pomerania-Wolgast 1648: To Sweden 1679: Brandenburg
20px Cappenberg	County
Carinthia	788: Margraviate 976: Duchy	Aust	PR	876; 927; 976; 995	1286: To Counts of Gorizia-Tyrol 1335: To Habsburg Austria 1512 Austrian Circle
Carniola	955: Margraviate 1364: Duchy	Aust	PR	828, 955, 1040	955 fief March of the Patriarch of Aquileja; 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 Habsburgs 1512: Austrian Circle 1803: Imperial Estate in Bench of Princes 1805-1806: French occupation
20px Castell	1200: County	Franc		1200	1254: Partitioned into Elder and Younger lines 1347: Elder branch extinct; Castell reunited 1500: Franconian Circle 1597: Partitioned into Castell-Remlingen and Castell-Rüdenhausen
20px Castell	County			1709: Partitioned from Castell-Castell	1772: Re-annexed to Castell-Castell Composed of 3 territories and 28 villages
20px Castell-Castell	1668: County			1668: Partitioned from Castell-Remlingen	1709: Division into Castell-Castell and Castell 1772: Annexed Castell 1806: Mediatised to Bavaria
20px Castell-Remlingen	1597: County			1597: Partitioned from Castell	1668: Division ito Castell-Remlingen and Castell-Castell 1762: Re-annexed to Castell
20px Castell-Rüdenhausen	County			1597: Partitioned from Castell
20px Castels	High Jurisdiction
20px Chablais	1310: Duchy
Chatelot	Lordship
20px Chiemsee	Bishopric
Chur	Bishopric	Aust	EC	1170	1512: Austrian Circle 1793: Council of Princes 1798: Annexed to the Helvetic Republic
Churwalden	Jurisdiction
Cilly (Cilli)	1341: County 1436: HRE Principality of Cilli and Ortenburg				1456: Counts of Cilli died out; estates inherited by Habsburgs
Cläven	Lordship			909	Partitioned in 950
20px 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 1582: HRE Council of Princes 1609: War of Succession 1614 to Brandenburg ?-1672: Occupied by United Provinces To Prussia 1795: French occupation 1815: To Prussia
Colloredo	Principality (personalist)	n/a	FR	1763	1788: Renamed to Colloredo-Mansfeld
Colloredo-Mansfeld	Principality (personalist)	n/a	FR	1788: Renamed from Colloredo	1803: Purchased a portion of Limpurg, and Rieneck
Colmar	Imperial City	Upp Rhen			1648: Annexed to France
Cologne Köln	Archbishopric 1356: HRE Prince-Elector	El Rhin	EL	954	1512: Electoral Rhenish Circle 1803: Annexed to Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Cologne	Free City	Low Rhen	RH	1288	1794: Annexed to France 1815: to Prussia
Comburg	Imperial Abbey
Corvey (Korvey)	877: Abbey c1582: Prince-Abbot 1783: Prince-Bishopric Principality	Low Rhen		877	1793: Council of Princes 1803: Secularized as a principality to Nassau-Dillenburg
Cottbus	Lordship				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				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