{"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"citation":{"chicago":"Huybrechts, Yves. “In or out of the Empire? The Implications of Danish Claims to the Principality of Jever for Netherlandish Territorial Integrity  (1675-1689),” n.d.","ieee":"Y. Huybrechts, “In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689),” presented at the Norwegian History Days, Bodø.","bibtex":"@inproceedings{Huybrechts, title={In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689)}, author={Huybrechts, Yves} }","apa":"Huybrechts, Y. (n.d.). <i>In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689)</i>. Norwegian History Days, Bodø.","mla":"Huybrechts, Yves. <i>In or out of the Empire? The Implications of Danish Claims to the Principality of Jever for Netherlandish Territorial Integrity  (1675-1689)</i>.","ama":"Huybrechts Y. In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689).","short":"Y. Huybrechts, in: n.d."},"date_updated":"2025-07-19T12:34:01Z","year":"2026","title":"In or out of the Empire? The implications of Danish claims to the principality of Jever for Netherlandish territorial integrity  (1675-1689)","type":"conference","status":"public","_id":"60666","conference":{"start_date":"2024-06-27","name":"Norwegian History Days","end_date":"2024-06-29","location":"Bodø"},"date_created":"2025-07-19T12:29:16Z","department":[{"_id":"6"}],"author":[{"orcid":"0009-0009-2166-9794","last_name":"Huybrechts","id":"78579","first_name":"Yves","full_name":"Huybrechts, Yves"}],"abstract":[{"text":"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.","lang":"eng"}],"user_id":"78579","publication_status":"submitted"}