Overijssel, Lordship of
Substate | Defunct
1528 CE to 1795 CE
The Lordship of Overijssel or Overissel (Latin: Transisalania) is a former division of the Netherlands named for its position along the river Issel.
The lordship is formed in 1528 when Charles V of Habsburg conquers the Oversticht (roughly the present-day Province of Overijssel and Province of Drenthe), during the Guelders Wars.
Before 1528, this area had been part of the Bishopric of Utrecht.
In 1528, at the demand of Henry of the Palatinate, Prince-Bishop of Utrecht, Habsburg forces under Georg Schenck van Toutenburg liberate the Bishopric, which had been occupied by the Duchy of Guelders since 1521–1522.
On October 20, 1528, Bishop Henry hands over power to Charles of Habsburg.
The Bishopric of Utrecht comes to an end and is divided into the Lordship of Utrecht and the Lordship of Overijssel, both ruled by a Habsburg Stadtholder.
The name Overijssel however is of much earlier date; Oversticht was known since 1233 by its Latin name Transysla or Transisalania, literally: Over-IJssel, i.e. the other side of the river IJssel.
Between 1528 and 1584, the Stadtholder of Overijssel is the same as the Stadtholder of the Lordship of Frisia.
The Lordship becomes part of the Burgundian Circle by the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 and one of the Seventeen Provinces.
When the Batavian Republic is created in 1795, the Lordship of Overijssel is abolished.
After the Napoleonic Wars come to an end Overijssel is recreated as one of the provinces of United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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A gradual immigration by Germanic Frankish tribes during the fifth century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings.
A gradual shift of power during the eighth century led the kingdom of the Franks to evolve into the Carolingian Empire.
The Treaty of Verdun in 843 divided the region into Middle and West Francia and therefore into a set of more or less independent fiefdoms which, during the Middle Ages, were vassals either of the King of France or of the Holy Roman Emperor.
Many of these fiefdoms were united in the Burgundian Netherlands of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Emperor Charles V extends the personal union of the Seventeen Provinces in the 1540s, making it far more than a personal union by the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 and increases his influence over the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
In 1568, the Eighty Years' War between the Provinces and their Spanish ruler begins.
In 1579, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces forge the Union of Utrecht in which they commit to support each other in their defense against the Spanish army.
The Union of Utrecht is seen as the foundation of the modern Netherlands.
In 1581, the northern provinces adopt the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence in which the provinces officially depose Philip II of Spain as reigning monarch in the northern provinces.
The English army, under command of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester is of no real benefit to the Dutch rebellion.
Philip II, the son of Charles V, is not prepared to let them go easily, and war continues until 1648, when Spain under King Philip IV finally recognize the independence of the seven north-western provinces in the Peace of Münster.
Parts of the southern provinces become de facto colonies of the new republican-mercantile empire.
All these duchies, lordships and counties are autonomous and have their own government, the States-Provincial.
The States General, the confederal government, are seated in The Hague and consist of representatives from each of the seven provinces.
The sparsely populated region of Drenthe is part of the republic too, although it is not considered one of the provinces.
Moreover, the Republic has come to occupy during the Eighty Years' War a number of so-called Generality Lands in Flanders, Brabant and Limburg.
Their population is mainly Roman Catholic.
These areas do not have a governmental structure of their own, and are used as a buffer zone between the Republic and the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands.