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  bibo_abstract:
  - Few principalities were as interwoven with European politics and as prone to dichotomous
    debate as the East Frisian Jever. At the mouth of the Weser and in the back of
    the Dutch republic, Jever conjoined the Western and Nordic struggles of the seventeenth
    century. It proved crucial during the French invasions of the Low Countries and
    it enabled Denmark-Norway to march on a wider front against Swedish possessions
    on the continent. When the Danish king in 1677 tried to add Jever to his Oldenburg
    titles, he was thus locked in a conflict between Spain and France regarding the
    overlordship over Jever. This revealed larger interests because Jever was connected
    to the Holy Roman Empire through feudal bonds with the Spanish Netherlands and
    the Burgundian Circle that unified these Netherlands. The presentation will show
    how the prima vista dichotomy of French or Spanish overlordship over Jever carried
    the real debate whether Jever – and thus the Spanish Netherlands – belonged to
    the Empire or not. In claiming the right to hand Jever to Denmark for an alliance,
    French Louis XIV not only severed the Spanish Netherlands from imperial support.
    He also disintegrated them. Spain therefore couldn’t accept foreign overlordship
    over Netherlandish fiefs and needed Jever to solicit Danish support against the
    French. Meanwhile, the Emperor fought the intrusion of France’s Réunion policy
    in the Empire whilst Brandeburg and Sweden meddled to manoeuvre Denmark within
    the ongoing Nordic struggle. The outcome of the debate (at the imperial Diet as
    well as the Danish court) would ultimately decide the margins within the Empire
    to choose alliances. Jever thus demonstrates how interwoven dependencies of territories
    could provoke dichotomies that shifted strategic policies.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Yves
      foaf_name: Huybrechts, Yves
      foaf_surname: Huybrechts
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=78579
    orcid: 0009-0009-2166-9794
  dct_date: 2026^xs_gYear
  dct_language: eng
  dct_title: In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality
    of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689)@
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